Daytona Beach, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
3,156 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Daytona Beach. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.9%
- 1.8× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12.29
- range $10–$20
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 75,924
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 33,105
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,902
- 3.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.66★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,156 Google reviews, 1,764 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Daytona Beach, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Daytona Beach's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 6 chains compete alongside 5 independents — typical mix for a market of 11 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 1,764 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.66★, damage 0.9%, cancel friction 11.7%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.20). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 4 of 11 Daytona Beach locations with menus available: median single car wash $12.29 (range $10–$20), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $10–$23.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $10/mo at Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova (Wykin Club).
See the best-rated car washes in Daytona Beach, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Daytona Beach, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Daytona Beach, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (36% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Daytona Beach | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova Wykin Club | $10/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Caliber Car Wash Basic Wash | $23.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Daytona Beach | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Caliber Car Wash Basic Wash | $12.29 |
| 3 | Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova All Worry Wash | $20 |
Pricing scraped from operator websites where published; the WashIndex AI calling agent rings up locations that don’t publish menus online to capture pricing directly.
About Daytona Beach, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Daytona Beach have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Daytona Beach's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.90★ (4 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.99★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 36.4% | 217 | 4.90 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 36.4% | 2,732 | 4.69 | 0.96% | 12.2% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 18.2% | 196 | 3.99 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 9.1% | 11 | 4.50 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Daytona Beach car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Daytona Beach tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: -0.31 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $54K AGI/return, 4.57★.
Car wash count and quality by income tier
Blue bars: location count per tier. Orange tick marks: average Google rating (same y-axis).
| Income tier (mean AGI/return) | ZIPs | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Top Format |
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| Under $50K | 2 | 8 | 2,503 | 4.63 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 1 | 431 | 4.80 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 2 | 222 | 4.65 | Self-Serve Bay (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 8 sites across 2 ZIPs at 4.63★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Daytona Beach car washes?
6 chains alongside 5 independents make up Daytona Beach's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova | 1 | 154 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sud Stop Car Wash | 1 | 180 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 540 | 3.90 | 3.24% | 23.5% | 4.86% |
| 4 | Caliber Car Wash | 1 | 431 | 4.80 | 0.66% | 6.5% | 1.64% |
| 5 | ModWash | 1 | 1,581 | 4.90 | 0.76% | 15.9% | 0.22% |
| 6 | bp | 1 | 11 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Daytona Beach car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,764 reviews, 11 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Daytona Beach's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 11 car washes in Daytona Beach, FL?
11 car washes are tracked in Daytona Beach; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| ModWash 1330 Beville Rd | Daytona Beach, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 1,581 | $39K |
| Mister Car Wash 1881 LPGA Blvd | Daytona Beach, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.9 | 540 | $44K |
| Caliber Car Wash 1111 Beville Rd | Daytona Beach, FL | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.8 | 431 | $56K |
| Sud Stop Car Wash 2743 LPGA Blvd | Daytona Beach, FL | Express Tunnel | Sud Stop Car Wash | 4.9 | 180 | $111K |
| Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova 127 S Nova Rd | Daytona Beach, FL | Self-Serve Bay | Salty Dog Car Wash - S Nova | 4.1 | 154 | $39K |
| Ceramic Touch Detailing 1575 Aviation Center Pkwy #434 | Daytona Beach, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 79 | $39K |
| Corey’s Mobile Detailing 1345 Tomoka Town Ctr Dr | Daytona Beach, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 72 | $44K |
| Empire Detailing & Window Tint 1575 Aviation Center Pkwy Suite 411-413 | Daytona Beach, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 51 | $39K |
| Wave Wash 301B E International Speedway Blvd | Daytona Beach, FL | Self-Serve Bay | — | 3.6 | 42 | $109K |
| GlossHaus Auto Spa 128 S Beach St | Daytona Beach, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 15 | $39K |
Compare Daytona Beach to other car wash markets in the Deltona metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Daytona Beach, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/daytona-beach-fl
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Car wash inventory for Daytona Beach, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Daytona Beach, and further restricted to places whose format the WashIndex LLM classifier identified as a car wash (excluding dealerships, gas stations, and other auto-related businesses that don't primarily operate a car wash). Inclusion in the parent Deltona MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,764 customer reviews processed through WashIndex's 55-field LLM extraction pipeline. Format classification comes from a separate per-location website-reading classifier. ZIP-level income data is from the IRS Statistics of Income (tax year 2022) — mean Adjusted Gross Income per tax return, which is directionally aligned with ACS median household income but available without authentication.
See our full methodology for the extraction pipeline, validation samples, and aggregation logic. Term definitions in the glossary.
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