Farmingdale, NY Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Farmingdale's car wash market built from 2,460 Google reviews across 10 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Washville Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.67★
- +0.26 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.0%
- 1.5× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $40
- range $13–$40
- Median unlimited
- $19.99/mo
- cheapest $17/mo at Cruzin Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 8,450
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 3,529
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 845
- 2.3× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 5.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.67★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,460 Google reviews, 1,267 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Farmingdale, NY · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Farmingdale reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 10 locations across 2 chains and 6 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.67★; damage 1.0%; membership-cancel friction 7.9%. Wait time is the brightest aspect signal (0.93/+1). 2,460 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,267 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 11 Farmingdale locations with menus available: median single car wash $40 (range $13–$40), median unlimited membership $19.99/month (range $17–$19.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $17/mo at Cruzin Car Wash (Cruzin Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Farmingdale, NY
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Farmingdale, NY?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Farmingdale, 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 Farmingdale | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cruzin Car Wash Cruzin Wash | $17/mo |
| 2 | Washville Car Wash Downtown | $19.99/mo |
| 3 | Washville Car Wash Downtown | $19.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Farmingdale | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cruzin Car Wash Cruzin Wash | $13 |
| 2 | Dreams Driven NY (Car Customization Shop) Silver | $40 |
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 Farmingdale, NY
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What kinds of car washes does Farmingdale have?
The format mix in Farmingdale reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.92★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.45★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail Shop | 5 | 50.0% | 1,259 | 4.92 | 0.28% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 20.0% | 1,122 | 4.45 | 1.86% | 8.1% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 20.0% | 57 | 4.02 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 10.0% | 22 | 3.80 | 5.26% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Farmingdale car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Farmingdale tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $96K AGI/return, 4.54★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 11 | 2,460 | 4.67 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Farmingdale car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Farmingdale by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Washville Car Wash | 2 | 1,122 | 4.45 | 1.86% | 8.1% | 0.93% |
| 2 | bp | 2 | 57 | 4.02 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Farmingdale car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,267 reviews, 10 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Farmingdale's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 10 car washes in Farmingdale, NY?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Farmingdale market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Washville Car Wash 166 Fulton St | Farmingdale, NY | Express Tunnel | Washville Car Wash | 4.4 | 598 | $96K |
| Washville Car Wash 1590 Broadhollow Rd | Farmingdale, NY | Express Tunnel | Washville Car Wash | 4.5 | 524 | $96K |
| Rich Details Ceramic Coating Paint Protection & Tinting 81 Verdi St | Farmingdale, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 140 | $96K |
| Complete Detailers 238 NY-109 | Farmingdale, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 138 | $96K |
| 631 Coatings 258 Broadhollow Rd | Farmingdale, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 104 | $96K |
| Dreams Driven NY (Car Customization Shop) 48 Allen Blvd | Farmingdale, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 79 | $96K |
| bp 1009 NY-109 #1 | Farmingdale, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.2 | 37 | $96K |
| Nano Ceramic Coating - Paint Correction - Auto detailing 104 Allen Blvd B | Farmingdale, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 23 | $96K |
| Cruzin Car Wash 1007 Fulton St | Farmingdale, NY | Full Service | — | 3.8 | 22 | $96K |
| bp 1127 Broadway | Farmingdale, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.7 | 20 | $96K |
Compare Farmingdale to other car wash markets in the New York 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). Farmingdale, NY car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/farmingdale-ny
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Car wash inventory for Farmingdale, NY is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Farmingdale, 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 New York MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,267 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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