Folsom, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
Folsom: 12 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.53★
- +0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 58% of classified
- Median single wash
- $25
- range $10–$25
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 82,140
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 29,234
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,845
- 3.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.7
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 7 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 58.3% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 4,668 Google reviews, 1,719 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Folsom, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Folsom's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 58.3% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. Operating-quality signals below are best read as a study of detail shop's execution.
Average rating 4.53★; damage 1.6%; detail shop averages 4.36★. Staff stands out positively (0.91/+1). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
Published pricing across the 4 of 12 Folsom locations with menus available: median single car wash $25 (range $10–$25), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $24.99–$24.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash (Good).
See the best-rated car washes in Folsom, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Folsom, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Folsom, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (33% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Folsom | ||
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| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Folsom | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Folsom Glenn Car Wash & Auto Lube EXTERIOR MOTHER LODE | $10 |
| 2 | Davis's Mobile Detailing Pet Hair Removal | $25 |
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 Folsom, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Folsom have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 7 of the 12 car washes in Folsom run as detail shop. The mini-table below shows how the rest of the market splits.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.65★ (2 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.80★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 58.3% | 432 | 4.36 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 16.7% | 3,325 | 4.65 | 1.78% | 10.2% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 8.3% | 96 | 3.80 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 8.3% | 110 | 3.80 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 8.3% | 705 | 4.30 | 2.27% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Folsom car washes?
12 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 58.3% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $148K AGI/return, 4.50★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 12 | 4,668 | 4.53 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Highest vs. lowest income tier: 0 sites/0.00★ vs. 0 sites/0.00★. Where the dominant format runs 58.3% of classified sites, the per-tier breakdown mostly reflects how that single format ranges across income levels.
Who operates the most Folsom car washes?
4 chains compete in Folsom, with the top names typically being heavy detail shop operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 2 | 3,325 | 4.65 | 1.78% | 10.2% | 0.54% |
| 2 | Premier Mobile Detailing | 1 | 21 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
| 3 | 76 | 1 | 96 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Dave's Car Wash | 1 | 110 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Folsom car washes?
1,719 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. detail shop's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are the 12 car washes in Folsom, CA?
12 locations; the most-reviewed are shown below. In a format-concentrated market, the location table is mostly a leaderboard for the dominant format's top operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 1750 Cavitt Dr | Folsom, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,699 | $148K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1300 Prairie City Rd | Folsom, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,626 | $148K |
| Folsom Glenn Car Wash & Auto Lube 414 Glenn Dr | Folsom, CA | Full Service | — | 4.3 | 705 | $148K |
| Folsom Dam Hand Car Wash and Detail Center 7620 Folsom-Auburn Rd | Folsom, CA | Detail Shop | — | 3.4 | 163 | $148K |
| Dave's Car Wash 85 Natoma St | Folsom, CA | Self-Serve Bay | Dave's Car Wash | 3.8 | 110 | $148K |
| 76 1024 E Bidwell St | Folsom, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.8 | 96 | $148K |
| Folsom Wrap & Detail 14851 Sun Peak Dr | Folsom, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 85 | $148K |
| Davis's Mobile Detailing 50 Iron Point Cir Suite 140 | Folsom, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 80 | $148K |
| Five Star Detailing & Wraps 9477 Greenback Ln Suite 216 | Folsom, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 39 | $148K |
| Alpha Auto Works 711-1 E Bidwell St | Folsom, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 22 | $148K |
Compare Folsom to other car wash markets in the Sacramento 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). Folsom, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/folsom-ca
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Car wash inventory for Folsom, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Folsom, 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 Sacramento MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,719 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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