Fort Worth, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
69,784 Google reviews across 83 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Per-chain ratings vs. footprint, format mix, customer-experience signals across the chain-heavy market.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 83
- Chains
- 21
- lead: WhiteWater Express Car Wash (7)
- Avg rating
- 4.67★
- +0.26 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.0%
- 1.5× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 51% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $5–$29
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $13.49/mo at Captain Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 941,311
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 334,230
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 11,341
- 5.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 83 car wash locations operated by 21 chains and 40 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 38.6% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by WhiteWater Express Car Wash (7 sites).
- Built from 69,784 Google reviews, 24,695 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
83 car wash locations in Fort Worth, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Operator concentration in Fort Worth sits well above the US-market norm. Across 83 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 38.6% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with WhiteWater Express Car Wash the largest at 7 sites. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Operating-quality aggregates: rating 4.67★, damage 1.0%, membership-cancel friction 12.9%. Aspect spread: Staff (0.92) on the positive side, equipment reliability (-0.07) on the friction side. The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
Published pricing across the 44 of 84 Fort Worth locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $5–$29), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $13.49–$29.97/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $13.49/mo at Captain Car Wash (Captain Silver).
See the best-rated car washes in Fort Worth, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Fort Worth, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Fort Worth, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 44 of 84 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (52% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Fort Worth | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain Car Wash Captain Silver | $13.49/mo |
| 2 | Captain Car Wash Captain Silver | $13.49/mo |
| 3 | Katies Express Car Wash Basic | $14.99/mo |
| 4 | BigGuyKev Detailz Pro | $15/mo |
| 5 | Blue Tropic Car Wash Bug Blaster | $16.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Fort Worth | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Express Car Wash Star Express Car Wash (Fundraiser Cost) | $5 |
| 2 | Katies Express Car Wash Basic | $6 |
| 3 | BigGuyKev Detailz Starter | $6 |
| 4 | Star Express Car Wash - Everman Basic Wash | $8 |
| 5 | Living H2O Car Wash for a cause Basic | $8 |
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.
Car wash financing in Fort Worth, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 33 car-wash loans in Fort Worth, TX worth $79.5M, at a median of $2,339,900 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 41% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
FY2026 annualized from its first 6 months.
- New build / open36% · $2.6M
- Acquisition21% · $3.7M
- Expansion / improvement39% · $1.8M
- Working capital3% · $20K
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About Fort Worth, TX
How many car washes are in Fort Worth, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does Fort Worth have?
Fort Worth's chain-heavy mix shapes the format distribution below. Express tunnels typically dominate consolidated markets — the format with the best unit economics for multi-location rollouts. Hand-finished detail shops and full-service operators usually run as the residual independent layer.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.78★ (27 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.59★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 42 | 50.6% | 62,338 | 4.70 | 1.01% | 12.7% |
| Detail Shop | 27 | 32.5% | 3,061 | 4.78 | 0.15% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 9 | 10.8% | 3,944 | 4.25 | 2.67% | 18.6% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 4 | 4.8% | 422 | 3.59 | 4.17% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 1.2% | 19 | 4.90 | 0.00% | 25.0% |
What is the typical household income near Fort Worth car washes?
In a chain-consolidated market like Fort Worth, ZIP-level income tells you more about where chains chose to deploy capital than about how customers actually rate the wash. Rollups tend to anchor expansion in the $75K–$150K AGI band; below that range, supply is thinner.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 83 qualifying locations: 0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $85K 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 | 6 | 16 | 8,733 | 4.66 | Express Tunnel (8) |
| $50K – $75K | 10 | 24 | 20,948 | 4.62 | Express Tunnel (12) |
| $75K – $100K | 5 | 31 | 34,262 | 4.76 | Express Tunnel (17) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 7 | 3,359 | 4.39 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 6 | 2,482 | 4.32 | Full Service (2) |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 6 car washes across 1 ZIPs at 4.32★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 16 across 6 ZIPs at 4.66★. In a chain-consolidated market like Fort Worth, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most Fort Worth car washes?
In Fort Worth, where chain share runs above the US-market median, the chain-level breakdown below is where most of the operating-quality signal sits. WhiteWater Express Car Wash alone runs 7 of the metro's 83 sites; per-chain rating, damage rate, and membership-friction numbers follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 7 | 23,748 | 4.80 | 0.55% | 6.8% | 0.29% |
| 2 | Caliber Car Wash | 5 | 14,704 | 4.75 | 1.09% | 17.7% | 0.35% |
| 3 | Take 5 Car Wash | 4 | 9,359 | 4.61 | 1.07% | 12.8% | 0.50% |
| 4 | Slappy's Express Car Wash - Presidio | 3 | 822 | 4.71 | 3.93% | 18.4% | 0.22% |
| 5 | Star Express Car Wash - Everman | 3 | 699 | 3.82 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Rub A Dub Car Wash | 3 | 358 | 3.59 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 179 | 4.22 | 5.38% | — | 3.85% |
| 8 | Captain Car Wash | 2 | 252 | 4.54 | 5.03% | — | 0.00% |
| 9 | Carnation Auto Spa | 2 | 405 | 4.54 | 1.30% | 23.1% | 0.98% |
| 10 | Living H2O Car Wash - Altamesa | 1 | 141 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 834 | 4.30 | 0.41% | 8.3% | 0.41% |
| 12 | Brightworks Car Wash | 1 | 992 | 4.80 | 2.22% | — | 1.48% |
| 13 | Soapy Jeff's Car Wash | 1 | 652 | 4.00 | 5.51% | — | 7.09% |
| 14 | Quick N Clean Car Wash | 1 | 823 | 4.70 | 0.91% | 19.4% | 1.10% |
| 15 | Links Car Wash | 1 | 998 | 4.10 | 6.45% | — | 0.65% |
| 16 | Super Star Car Wash | 1 | 1,376 | 4.70 | 0.39% | 12.4% | 1.30% |
| 17 | QUICK WASH | 1 | 25 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Katies Express Car Wash | 1 | 54 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 19 | Star Express Car Wash | 1 | 60 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 20 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 223 | 4.80 | 1.59% | — | 0.00% |
| 21 | Endless Clean Car Wash | 1 | 1,571 | 4.90 | 0.26% | 5.8% | 0.43% |
What do customers love and complain about at Fort Worth car washes?
24,695 reviews feed the aspect grid below; each is computed as (positive − negative) / total, on a -1…+1 scale. In Fort Worth, the dominant chains' aspect profiles drive most of the metro-wide score.
Where are the 83 car washes in Fort Worth, TX?
Top locations by review volume in Fort Worth are listed below. In a consolidated market, the top of the list is typically dominated by the largest chains' anchor sites; chain affiliation is called out in the Chain column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 8917 Lower Sonoma Ln | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 5,453 | $81K |
| Caliber Car Wash - Basswood 3180 Basswood Blvd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.9 | 4,071 | $70K |
| Caliber Car Wash 3251 Golden Triangle Blvd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.8 | 4,046 | $81K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 4200 Boat Club Rd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 3,595 | $75K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 4784 Golden Triangle Blvd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.7 | 3,546 | $92K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 6425 Camp Bowie Blvd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 3,536 | $86K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 2817 Basswood Blvd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.8 | 3,397 | $75K |
| Caliber Car Wash 9521 Clifford St | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.6 | 2,824 | $74K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 2100 Sycamore School Rd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.8 | 2,764 | $48K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 7248 Blue Mound Rd | Fort Worth, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.8 | 2,733 | $75K |
Compare Fort Worth to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth 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, June 9). Fort Worth, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/fort-worth-tx
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Car wash inventory for Fort Worth, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Fort Worth, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 24,695 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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