Franklin, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
1,891 Google reviews across 17 Franklin car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 17
- Chains
- 5
- lead: The RipTide Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.49★
- +0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.0%
- 1.9× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 59% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 85,575
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 33,158
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,034
- 2.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 17 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 10 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 58.8% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,891 Google reviews, 1,170 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
17 car wash locations in Franklin, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Franklin's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 58.8% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Headline operating signals: 4.49★ rating, 3.0% damage, 34.8% cancel friction. Aspect-level: Facility cleanliness strong (0.90), equipment reliability weak (-0.47). 1,891 Google reviews back the analysis, 1,170 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Franklin, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Franklin, TN
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Franklin, TN worth $11.2M, at a median of $1,240,000 per car wash. About 100% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open100% · $1.2M
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 Franklin, TN
How many car washes are in Franklin, TN?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Franklin, TN?
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Which car wash chains operate in Franklin, TN?
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What is the median household income near Franklin car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Franklin, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Franklin have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Franklin runs as a single-format city for car washing. 58.8% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.93★ (10 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.08★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail Shop | 10 | 58.8% | 763 | 4.93 | 0.45% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 29.4% | 719 | 4.08 | 5.25% | 37.3% |
| Full Service | 1 | 5.9% | 386 | 4.40 | 2.67% | 16.7% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 5.9% | 23 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Franklin car washes?
17 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 58.8% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 17 qualifying locations: 0.30 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $188K AGI/return, 4.57★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 3 | 19 | 1,891 | 4.49 | Detail Shop (12) |
Top tier 19 sites at 4.49★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Franklin's detail shop skew means the income mix reads less as "which formats serve which neighborhoods" and more as "where this one format reaches its limits".
Who operates the most Franklin car washes?
5 chains compete in Franklin, 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 | The RipTide Car Wash | 3 | 459 | 4.27 | 5.60% | 38.4% | 5.07% |
| 2 | Wash N Roll Car Wash | 1 | 208 | 3.70 | 3.42% | 43.2% | 15.38% |
| 3 | Safari Car Wash | 1 | 386 | 4.40 | 2.67% | — | 1.07% |
| 4 | Jax Wax DFW | 1 | 50 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 5 | bp | 1 | 23 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Franklin car washes?
1,170 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 17 car washes in Franklin, TN?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Franklin's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as detail shop.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Safari Car Wash 1004 Center Point Pl | Franklin, TN | Full Service | Safari Car Wash | 4.4 | 386 | $191K |
| Wash N' Roll Car Wash - Franklin, TN 102 Carr Ave | Franklin, TN | Express Tunnel | Wash N Roll Car Wash | 3.7 | 208 | $191K |
| The RipTide Car Wash 230 S Royal Oaks Blvd | Franklin, TN | Express Tunnel | The RipTide Car Wash | 4.6 | 204 | $191K |
| The RipTide Car Wash 100 Market Exchange Ct | Franklin, TN | Express Tunnel | The RipTide Car Wash | 4.0 | 185 | $159K |
| Drew's Mobile Detail 4409 Buchanan Ln | Franklin, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 136 | $191K |
| Southern Shine - Franklin Location 3963 Carothers Pkwy | Franklin, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 115 | $159K |
| Reflections Perfection Car Detailing Westhaven Blvd | Franklin, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 114 | $191K |
| Golden Suds Mobile Detailing 109 Carr Ave | Franklin, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 79 | $191K |
| The RipTide Car Wash 404 Mallory Station Rd | Franklin, TN | Express Tunnel | The RipTide Car Wash | 4.0 | 70 | $159K |
| GTR AUTO MOBILE DETAILING & CERAMIC COATING 129 Grenadier Dr #37064 | Franklin, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 70 | $191K |
Compare Franklin to other car wash markets in the Nashville 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). Franklin, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/franklin-tn
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Car wash inventory for Franklin, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Franklin, 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 Nashville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,170 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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