Florence, SC Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Florence, SC MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
4,293 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Florence. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Scrubby's Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.43★
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 40,205
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,450
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,021
- 2.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 3.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 1 independent.
- Weighted Google rating 4.43★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,293 Google reviews, 841 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Florence, SC · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Florence's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 10 locations across 6 chains and 1 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.43★, damage 1.9%, cancel friction 14.8%. Staff strong (0.86); equipment reliability weak (-0.06). 4,293 Google reviews drive the analysis, 841 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Florence, SC
Ranked by Google review rating
About Florence, SC
How many car washes are in Florence, SC?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Florence, SC?
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Which car wash chains operate in Florence, SC?
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What is the median household income near Florence car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Florence, SC?
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What kinds of car washes does Florence have?
The format mix in Florence 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: Express Tunnel at 4.54★ (5 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.99★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 50.0% | 3,370 | 4.54 | 1.76% | 14.8% |
| Full Service | 2 | 20.0% | 858 | 3.99 | 2.76% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 20.0% | 55 | 4.38 | 0.00% | — |
| Detail Shop | 1 | 10.0% | 10 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Florence car washes?
Each ZIP in Florence is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.59 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $82K AGI/return, 4.38★.
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 | 1 | 32 | 3.70 | Full Service (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 1 | 900 | 4.30 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 8 | 3,361 | 4.47 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 1 sites across 1 ZIPs at 3.70★ 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 Florence car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Florence 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 | Scrubby's Car Wash | 2 | 348 | 4.38 | 3.54% | — | 0.00% |
| 2 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 2 | 1,915 | 4.35 | 2.38% | — | 0.40% |
| 3 | bp | 2 | 55 | 4.38 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 1 | 32 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 826 | 4.00 | 2.76% | — | 0.69% |
| 6 | Caliber Car Wash | 1 | 1,107 | 4.90 | 0.63% | 9.7% | 0.31% |
What do customers love and complain about at Florence car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 841 AI-extracted reviews across 10 Florence car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 10 car washes in Florence, SC?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Florence 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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| Caliber Car Wash 110 N Beltline Dr | Florence, SC | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,107 | $90K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2139 W Palmetto St | Florence, SC | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,015 | $90K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 1501 S Irby St | Florence, SC | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.3 | 900 | $61K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Florence, SC 3003 TV Rd I-95 Exit 169 | Florence, SC | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.0 | 826 | $90K |
| Scrubby's Car Wash 631 N Cashua Dr | Florence, SC | Express Tunnel | Scrubby's Car Wash | 4.2 | 193 | $90K |
| Scrubby's Car Wash 2480 Hoffmeyer Rd | Florence, SC | Express Tunnel | Scrubby's Car Wash | 4.6 | 155 | $90K |
| bp 3200 Pine Needles Rd | Florence, SC | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.4 | 42 | $90K |
| Mr.Clean Car Wash 704 E Palmetto St | Florence, SC | Full Service | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 3.7 | 32 | $43K |
| bp 3154 S Cashua Dr | Florence, SC | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.3 | 13 | $90K |
| Pee Dee Mobile Detailing LLC 700 S Cashua Dr Apartment 13h | Florence, SC | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 10 | $90K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Florence, SC car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/florence-sc
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Car wash inventory for Florence, SC is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Florence, 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 Florence MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 841 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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