Englewood, CO Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
Englewood: 19 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Per-format breakdown, operator dominance within the leading format, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 19
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Autowash Headquarters (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.54★
- +0.13 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.8%
- 2.0× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 74% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 33,774
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,308
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,778
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 19 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 16 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 73.7% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,818 Google reviews, 1,175 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
19 car wash locations in Englewood, CO · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Englewood's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 73.7% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.54★; damage runs 0.8%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.94★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.88/+1). 2,818 Google reviews back the analysis, 1,175 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Englewood, CO
Ranked by Google review rating
About Englewood, CO
How many car washes are in Englewood, CO?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Englewood, CO?
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Which car wash chains operate in Englewood, CO?
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What is the median household income near Englewood car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Englewood, CO?
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What kinds of car washes does Englewood have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Englewood runs as a single-format city for car washing. 73.7% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.94★ (14 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.86★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail Shop | 14 | 73.7% | 1,499 | 4.94 | 0.14% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 10.5% | 266 | 3.86 | 4.35% | 100.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 10.5% | 717 | 4.02 | 1.08% | 21.6% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 5.3% | 336 | 4.40 | 2.37% | 13.6% |
What is the typical household income near Englewood car washes?
19 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 73.7% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 19 qualifying locations: -0.11 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $134K 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 8 | 894 | 4.81 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 9 | 1,280 | 4.45 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 3 | 644 | 4.34 | Self-Serve Bay (1) |
3 car washes at the top income tier (4.34★) vs. 0 at the bottom (0.00★). Detail shops concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Englewood car washes?
Because Englewood skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autowash Headquarters | 1 | 596 | 4.00 | 1.11% | 21.6% | 0.74% |
| 2 | Conoco | 1 | 121 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 3 | ARS AT Shortline | 1 | 22 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Englewood car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.88); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.68).
Where are the 19 car washes in Englewood, CO?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Englewood's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as detail shop.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Autowash @ Dove Valley Car Wash 15570 E Broncos Pkwy | Englewood, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Autowash Headquarters | 4.0 | 596 | $127K |
| Denver Auto Shield 4211 S Natches Ct Ste D | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 353 | $66K |
| Blue Sky Car Wash 3718 S Broadway | Englewood, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 336 | $314K |
| Safari Car Wash 4180 S Broadway | Englewood, CO | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.0 | 211 | $314K |
| Nimbus Mobile Detailing 15700 E Jamison Dr | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 169 | $127K |
| Top Shelf Detailing LLC 14200 E Otero Ave Unit 021012 | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 122 | $127K |
| Front Range Detail Studio - PPF & Ceramic Coating - RV Boat Auto 12559 E Broncos Pkwy | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 122 | $127K |
| Conoco 15015 E Hinsdale Dr | Englewood, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Conoco | 4.1 | 121 | $127K |
| Deep Sea Auto Detail 1950 W Union Ave A-8 | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 116 | $66K |
| Wilmer’s Detail Center 3211 S Broadway | Englewood, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 97 | $314K |
Compare Englewood to other car wash markets in the Denver metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Englewood, CO car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/englewood-co
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Car wash inventory for Englewood, CO is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Englewood, 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 Denver MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,175 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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