Denton, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
14,449 Google reviews across 25 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 25
- Chains
- 10
- lead: Tommy's Express® Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.55★
- +0.14 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.1%
- 1.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 52% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $8.99–$50
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $16/mo at Super Star Car Wash - Mesa Dr & University Dr
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 146,987
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 53,983
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,879
- 3.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 25 car wash locations operated by 10 chains and 12 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 52.0% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Tommy's Express® Car Wash (2 sites).
- Built from 14,449 Google reviews, 5,156 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
25 car wash locations in Denton, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Denton stands out for how much chain rollup has reshaped supply. 10 chains operate alongside 12 independents, but Tommy's Express® Car Wash (2 sites) accounts for the largest single concentration. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Average rating 4.55★ across 25 sites; damage 2.1%; cancel friction 21.6% of mem-discussing reviews. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.82/+1). The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
Published pricing across the 12 of 26 Denton locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $8.99–$50), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $16–$30/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $16/mo at Super Star Car Wash - Mesa Dr & University Dr (FIRST MONTH).
See the best-rated car washes in Denton, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Denton, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Denton, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 12 of 26 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (46% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Denton | ||
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| 1 | Super Star Car Wash - Mesa Dr & University Dr FIRST MONTH | $16/mo |
| 2 | Clean Start Express Car Wash Pre-Soak | $19.95/mo |
| 3 | Club Car Wash ROOKIE | $24/mo |
| 4 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $24.99/mo |
| 5 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Denton | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caliwood Detail Price | $8.99 |
| 2 | Clean & Green Car Wash Basic Wash | $10 |
| 3 | Clean & Green Car Wash Basic Wash | $10 |
| 4 | Club Car Wash ROOKIE | $11 |
| 5 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
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 Denton, TX
How many car washes are in Denton, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does Denton have?
Because chain operators have consolidated supply here, format counts below skew toward the formats those chains build at scale. The lowest-rated format is usually a long-tail mix of small operators rather than a meaningful share of the market.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.90★ (13 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.52★ (9 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 13 | 52.0% | 1,037 | 4.90 | 0.60% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 9 | 36.0% | 10,276 | 4.52 | 2.96% | 22.6% |
| Full Service | 3 | 12.0% | 3,136 | 4.55 | 0.81% | 11.6% |
What is the typical household income near Denton car washes?
In a chain-consolidated market like Denton, ZIP-level income tells you more about where chains chose to deploy capital than about how customers actually rate the wash. Rollups tend to anchor expansion in the $75K–$150K AGI band; below that range, supply is thinner.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 25 qualifying locations: 0.04 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $82K AGI/return, 4.64★.
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 | 1 | 2 | 5,343 | 4.50 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 5 | 557 | 4.71 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 19 | 8,549 | 4.58 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top vs. bottom tier spread: 0 sites at 0.00★ (income $150K+) vs. 2 sites at 4.50★ (income Under $50K). For Denton's consolidated chain operators, the middle-income band is where the strongest deployment density typically sits.
Who operates the most Denton car washes?
10 chains operate in Denton, with the top ten holding 52.0% of supply. Damage rate, cancel friction, and per-aspect ratings are broken out per chain — useful for understanding which operators drive the metro's headline numbers.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 2 | 648 | 4.59 | 3.26% | 7.1% | 0.30% |
| 2 | Clean & Green Car Wash | 2 | 791 | 4.33 | 13.01% | — | 0.81% |
| 3 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 7,478 | 4.53 | 2.35% | 29.2% | 3.27% |
| 4 | Caliwood Detail | 1 | 228 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Super Star Car Wash | 1 | 1,225 | 4.60 | 2.06% | 9.2% | 1.50% |
| 6 | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 1 | 1,751 | 4.70 | 0.76% | 11.6% | 0.42% |
| 7 | Clean Start Express | 1 | 26 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 108 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Kwik Kar Oil Change & Auto Service Center of Denton | 1 | 705 | 4.50 | 1.09% | — | 1.45% |
| 10 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 680 | 4.20 | 0.64% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Denton car washes?
5,156 reviews feed the aspect grid below; each is computed as (positive − negative) / total, on a -1…+1 scale. In Denton, the dominant chains' aspect profiles drive most of the metro-wide score.
Where are the 25 car washes in Denton, TX?
Locations table below: ranked by review count, with format, chain affiliation, rating, and ZIP-level IRS AGI for context. In a consolidated market like Denton, the chain column is the most useful filter.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Take 5 Car Wash 1900 W University Dr | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 5,275 | $48K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 1135 S Loop 288 | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.6 | 2,203 | $86K |
| WASHGUYS Car Wash 2112 Sadau Ct | Denton, TX | Full Service | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,751 | $97K |
| Super Star Car Wash - Mesa Dr & University Dr 3200 W University Dr | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,225 | $89K |
| Kwik Kar Oil Change & Auto Service Center of Denton 3507 E University Dr | Denton, TX | Full Service | Kwik Kar Oil Change & Auto Service Center of Denton | 4.5 | 705 | $86K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Denton, TX 4800 Barthold Rd | Denton, TX | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.2 | 680 | $89K |
| Clean & Green Car Wash 4105 Teasley Ln | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Clean & Green Car Wash | 4.2 | 438 | $97K |
| Clean & Green Car Wash 6900 FM2499 | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Clean & Green Car Wash | 4.5 | 353 | $97K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 2901 S Mayhill Rd | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.5 | 342 | $97K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 4530 Teasley Ln | Denton, TX | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.7 | 306 | $97K |
Compare Denton to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Denton, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/denton-tx
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Car wash inventory for Denton, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Denton, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 5,156 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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