Glendale, AZ Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
33 car washes, 11 chains, 3,898 AI-extracted reviews — concentrated more than the typical US market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 33
- Chains
- 11
- lead: Super Star Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.39★
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 42% of classified
- Median single wash
- $18.99
- range $9–$24.95
- Median unlimited
- $27/mo
- cheapest $16/mo at Super Star Car Wash - 67th Ave & Olive Ave
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 250,193
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 86,733
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,582
- 3.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.4
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 33 car wash locations operated by 11 chains and 14 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 54.5% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Super Star Car Wash (4 sites).
- Built from 11,918 Google reviews, 3,898 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
33 car wash locations in Glendale, AZ · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Among the US city markets we track, Glendale is a relatively consolidated example. Across 33 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 54.5% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Super Star Car Wash the largest at 4 sites. The headline averages below behave like chain averages — the per-chain table is the right cut to read.
Operating-quality aggregates: rating 4.39★, damage 1.9%, membership-cancel friction 13.0%. Aspect spread: Staff (0.80) on the positive side, equipment reliability (-0.21) on the friction side. Because the operator mix is concentrated, those numbers behave more like chain averages than market averages.
Published pricing across the 14 of 33 Glendale locations with menus available: median single car wash $18.99 (range $9–$24.95), median unlimited membership $27/month (range $16–$99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $16/mo at Super Star Car Wash - 67th Ave & Olive Ave (FIRST MONTH).
See the best-rated car washes in Glendale, AZ
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Glendale, AZ?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Glendale, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 14 of 33 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (42% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Glendale | ||
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| 1 | Super Star Car Wash - 67th Ave & Olive Ave FIRST MONTH | $16/mo |
| 2 | Super Star Car Wash - 59th Ave & Thunderbird Rd FIRST MONTH | $16/mo |
| 3 | Super Shine Car Wash - Express, Self-Serve Car and Dog Wash Basic | $19/mo |
| 4 | Cobblestone Auto Spa Basic Wash - Express Exterior | $21/mo |
| 5 | Cobblestone Auto Spa Basic Wash - Express Exterior | $21/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Glendale | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dash Car Wash Dash Splash | $9 |
| 2 | Cobblestone Auto Spa Basic Wash | $10 |
| 3 | Cobblestone Auto Spa Basic Wash - Express Exterior | $11 |
| 4 | Cobblestone Auto Spa Basic Wash - Express Exterior | $11 |
| 5 | Francis & Sons Car Wash BASIC | $18.99 |
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 Glendale, AZ
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 11 car-wash loans in Glendale, AZ worth $8.4M, at a median of $650,000 per car wash. About 40% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
FY2026 annualized from its first 6 months.
- New build / open36% · $634K
- Acquisition18% · $1.1M
- Expansion / improvement36% · $533K
- Working capital9% · $15K
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 Glendale, AZ
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What kinds of car washes does Glendale have?
Glendale'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 4.84★ (14 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.66★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 14 | 42.4% | 1,140 | 4.84 | 0.16% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 12 | 36.4% | 9,348 | 4.42 | 1.99% | 12.3% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 12.1% | 434 | 3.66 | 0.00% | 16.7% |
| Full Service | 3 | 9.1% | 996 | 3.90 | 7.53% | 31.6% |
What is the typical household income near Glendale car washes?
33 Glendale locations with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean IRS AGI. The income picture in a consolidated market mostly reflects where the dominant operators saw the strongest unit economics.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 33 qualifying locations: -0.22 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $63K AGI/return, 4.40★.
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 | 7 | 1,296 | 4.35 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $50K – $75K | 6 | 19 | 6,934 | 4.59 | Express Tunnel (8) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 6 | 2,793 | 3.80 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 895 | 4.70 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes in the top income tier (0.00★ avg) vs. 7 in the bottom (4.35★). Chain rollups gravitate toward middle-income suburbia — the part of the income curve where express-tunnel unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Glendale car washes?
In Glendale, where chain share runs above the US-market median, the chain-level breakdown below is where most of the operating-quality signal sits. Super Star Car Wash alone runs 4 of the metro's 33 sites; per-chain rating, damage rate, and membership-friction numbers follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Super Star Car Wash | 4 | 5,437 | 4.69 | 1.83% | 8.4% | 0.76% |
| 2 | Cobblestone Car Wash | 3 | 1,377 | 3.85 | 3.70% | 19.4% | 8.55% |
| 3 | Francis & Sons Car Wash | 2 | 721 | 3.75 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Clean Freak Car Wash | 2 | 1,219 | 3.79 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Circle K | 2 | 147 | 2.95 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Elephant Car Wash | 1 | 184 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Super Shine Car Wash | 1 | 386 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Shell | 1 | 103 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Road King Car Detailing | 1 | 10 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Spearko's Mobile Auto Detailing | 1 | 227 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 11 | Dash Car Wash | 1 | 635 | 4.90 | 0.44% | 2.1% | 0.44% |
What do customers love and complain about at Glendale car washes?
3,898 reviews feed the aspect grid below; each is computed as (positive − negative) / total, on a -1…+1 scale. In Glendale, the dominant chains' aspect profiles drive most of the metro-wide score.
Where are the 33 car washes in Glendale, AZ?
Top locations by review volume in Glendale 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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| Super Star Car Wash - 67th Ave & Olive Ave 6657 W Olive Ave | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.6 | 2,130 | $52K |
| Super Star Car Wash - 59th Ave & Thunderbird Rd 5810 W Thunderbird Rd | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,363 | $64K |
| Clean Freak Car Wash 5901 W Bell Rd | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Clean Freak Car Wash | 3.8 | 1,193 | $85K |
| Super Star Car Wash - 91st Ave & Northern Ave 9130 W Northern Ave | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,049 | $73K |
| Super Star Car Wash - 35th Ave & Happy Valley Rd 3680 W Happy Valley Rd | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.7 | 895 | $119K |
| Cobblestone Auto Spa 5050 W Bell Rd | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Cobblestone Car Wash | 3.6 | 848 | $85K |
| Dash Car Wash 8250 W Glendale Ave | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Dash Car Wash | 4.9 | 635 | $51K |
| Cobblestone Auto Spa 12187 N 67th Ave | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Cobblestone Car Wash | 4.2 | 417 | $67K |
| Super Shine Car Wash - Express, Self-Serve Car and Dog Wash 5515 N 59th Ave | Glendale, AZ | Express Tunnel | Super Shine Car Wash | 4.1 | 386 | $39K |
| Francis & Sons Car Wash 7221 W Bell Rd | Glendale, AZ | Full Service | Francis & Sons Car Wash | 3.4 | 364 | $85K |
Compare Glendale to other car wash markets in the Phoenix 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). Glendale, AZ car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/glendale-az
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Car wash inventory for Glendale, AZ is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Glendale, 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 Phoenix MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,898 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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