Grants Pass, OR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Grants Pass, OR MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,114 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Grants Pass. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Crater Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.43★
- Damage rate
- 2.8%
- 1.8× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $7–$10
- Median unlimited
- $30.99/mo
- cheapest $28/mo at Mill St Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 39,183
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,478
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 3,562
- 1.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.4
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.43★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,114 Google reviews, 426 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Grants Pass, OR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 11 car wash locations, Grants Pass matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 11 locations across 3 chains and 6 independents. Customer-experience signals across 426 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.43★, damage 2.8%, cancel friction 2.6%. Facility cleanliness strong (0.92); equipment reliability weak (-0.13). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 2 of 11 Grants Pass locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $7–$10), median unlimited membership $30.99/month (range $28–$30.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $28/mo at Mill St Car Wash (Monthly Membership).
See the best-rated car washes in Grants Pass, OR
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Grants Pass, OR?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Grants Pass, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (18% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Grants Pass | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mill St Car Wash Monthly Membership | $28/mo |
| 2 | Rogue Carwash Ceramic Protect | $30.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Grants Pass | ||
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| 1 | Mill St Car Wash Basic Wash | $7 |
| 2 | Rogue Carwash Basic | $10 |
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 Grants Pass, OR
How many car washes are in Grants Pass, OR?
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What kinds of car washes does Grants Pass have?
Format counts below split Grants Pass's 11 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.79★ (3 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.07★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 4 | 36.4% | 1,429 | 4.54 | 3.80% | 2.6% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 27.3% | 225 | 4.79 | 0.94% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 18.2% | 79 | 3.07 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 18.2% | 381 | 4.07 | 2.17% | — |
What is the typical household income near Grants Pass car washes?
11 Grants Pass car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: -0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $66K AGI/return, 4.25★.
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 | 2 | 11 | 2,114 | 4.43 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 Grants Pass car washes?
3 chains alongside 6 independents make up Grants Pass's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Crater Car Wash | 2 | 617 | 4.47 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Paradise Car Wash | 2 | 381 | 4.07 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Shell | 1 | 67 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Grants Pass car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. facility cleanliness is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 11 car washes in Grants Pass, OR?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Grants Pass market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Rogue Carwash 819 SE Mill St | Grants Pass, OR | Express Tunnel | — | 4.7 | 538 | $66K |
| Crater Car Wash 1562 NE F St | Grants Pass, OR | Express Tunnel | Crater Car Wash | 4.5 | 441 | $66K |
| Mill St Car Wash 599 NE F St | Grants Pass, OR | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 274 | $66K |
| Paradise Express Lube And Auto Repair 110 NE Hillcrest Dr | Grants Pass, OR | Self-Serve Bay | Paradise Car Wash | 4.1 | 251 | $66K |
| Crater Car Wash 330 Union Ave | Grants Pass, OR | Express Tunnel | Crater Car Wash | 4.4 | 176 | $66K |
| Paradise Car Wash 116 NE Hillcrest Dr | Grants Pass, OR | Self-Serve Bay | Paradise Car Wash | 4.0 | 130 | $66K |
| Elite Detailing Services 800 NE E St | Grants Pass, OR | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 120 | $66K |
| Shell 2017 NW Vine St | Grants Pass, OR | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.1 | 67 | $66K |
| Mac's Customs and Detail 2001 Foothill Blvd A4 | Grants Pass, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 55 | $66K |
| Route 97 Auto Detailing 2757 Highland Ave | Grants Pass, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 50 | $66K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Grants Pass, OR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/grants-pass-or
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Car wash inventory for Grants Pass, OR is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Grants Pass, 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 Grants Pass MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 426 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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