Fort Smith, AR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Fort Smith, AR-OK MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
3,524 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Fort Smith. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Club Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.51★
- +0.10 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.2%
- 1.3× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 55% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 89,496
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 36,480
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,136
- 4.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.6
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 2 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.51★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,524 Google reviews, 1,425 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Fort Smith, AR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Fort Smith reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 11 locations across 4 chains and 2 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,425 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.51★; damage 1.2%; membership-cancel friction 9.1%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.51). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Fort Smith, AR
Ranked by Google review rating
About Fort Smith, AR
How many car washes are in Fort Smith, AR?
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What is the median household income near Fort Smith car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Fort Smith, AR?
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What kinds of car washes does Fort Smith have?
The format mix in Fort Smith 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 4.82★ (2 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.40★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 54.5% | 2,221 | 4.45 | 1.32% | 10.3% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 18.2% | 169 | 4.82 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 18.2% | 628 | 4.70 | 1.15% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 9.1% | 506 | 4.40 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Fort Smith car washes?
Each ZIP in Fort Smith 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 11 qualifying locations: -0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $82K AGI/return, 4.61★.
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 | 2 | 2 | 194 | 4.75 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 8 | 3,058 | 4.48 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 272 | 4.70 | Full Service (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ 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 Fort Smith car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Fort Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Club Car Wash | 3 | 429 | 4.63 | 2.60% | 6.8% | 2.60% |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash | 3 | 1,792 | 4.41 | 0.88% | 11.8% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Splash Car Wash | 2 | 628 | 4.70 | 1.15% | — | 0.38% |
| 4 | Sam's Club Gas Station | 1 | 506 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Fort Smith car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,425 reviews, 11 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Fort Smith's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 11 car washes in Fort Smith, AR?
11 car washes are tracked in Fort Smith; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Car Wash USA Express 3751 Rogers Ave | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 688 | $83K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 6417 Rogers Ave | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.6 | 608 | $83K |
| Sam's Club Gas Station 7700 Rogers Ave | Fort Smith, AR | In-Bay Automatic | Sam's Club Gas Station | 4.4 | 506 | $83K |
| Car Wash USA Express 8411 Phoenix Ave | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.2 | 496 | $83K |
| Splash Car Wash 5800 Massard Rd | Fort Smith, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.7 | 356 | $83K |
| Splash Car Wash 12114 Old Hwy 71 S | Fort Smith, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.7 | 272 | $111K |
| Club Car Wash 5404 Rogers Ave | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.5 | 203 | $83K |
| Club Car Wash 4620 Old Greenwood Rd | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.7 | 132 | $83K |
| Buckler Detail 5820 Towson Ave | Fort Smith, AR | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 100 | $52K |
| Club Car Wash 2101 S Zero St | Fort Smith, AR | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.8 | 94 | $74K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Fort Smith, AR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/fort-smith-ar
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Car wash inventory for Fort Smith, AR is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Fort Smith, 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 Fort Smith MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,425 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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