Greeley, CO Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Greeley, CO MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Greeley's car wash market built from 4,479 Google reviews across 17 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 17
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.20★
- -0.21 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.8%
- 2.5× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 29% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 109,421
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 38,901
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,437
- 3.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 17 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.20★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,479 Google reviews, 833 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
17 car wash locations in Greeley, CO · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Greeley — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 17 locations across 6 chains and 7 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.20★; damage 3.8%; membership-cancel friction 13.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.37). 4,479 Google reviews drive the analysis, 833 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Greeley, CO
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Greeley, CO
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 6 car-wash loans in Greeley, CO worth $7.8M, at a median of $1,386,500 per car wash. About 50% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open33% · $1.9M
- Acquisition17% · $604K
- Expansion / improvement50% · $1.1M
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 Greeley, CO
How many car washes are in Greeley, CO?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Greeley, CO?
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What is the median household income near Greeley car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Greeley, CO?
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What kinds of car washes does Greeley have?
Format counts below split Greeley's 17 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 4.57★ (5 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 2.97★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 29.4% | 754 | 4.57 | 0.35% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 29.4% | 2,948 | 4.21 | 6.91% | 14.1% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 17.6% | 423 | 4.06 | 1.47% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 3 | 17.6% | 192 | 2.97 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 5.9% | 162 | 4.20 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Greeley car washes?
17 Greeley 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 17 qualifying locations: -0.36 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $68K AGI/return, 4.18★.
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 | 1 | 6 | 955 | 4.27 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 11 | 3,524 | 4.18 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Greeley's 17 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Greeley car washes?
6 chains run sites in Greeley; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 3 | 423 | 4.06 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 2 | 2,345 | 4.15 | 6.51% | — | 1.78% |
| 3 | Westside Carwash | 2 | 142 | 2.85 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 141 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Garden City Washout | 1 | 162 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Signal Car Wash at Loaf n Jug | 1 | 50 | 3.30 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Greeley car washes?
Seven aspects, 833 reviews, 17 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Greeley's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 17 car washes in Greeley, CO?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Greeley. The full set of 17 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Breeze Thru Car Wash - Greeley 3417 W 28th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.2 | 1,717 | $76K |
| Breeze Thru Car Wash - West Greeley 6913 W 10th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.0 | 628 | $76K |
| NoCo Auto Detailing and Window Tint 3018 W 10th St | Greeley, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 338 | $76K |
| Sunshine Car Wash 230 9th Ave | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.3 | 294 | $53K |
| Greeley Washout Inc 1140 E 8th St | Greeley, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 289 | $53K |
| Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th 1815 59th Ave | Greeley, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 4.2 | 235 | $76K |
| Bee Clean Auto Wash-39th 1005 39th Ave | Greeley, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 3.9 | 174 | $76K |
| Washway Car Wash 3509 W 4th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.8 | 168 | $76K |
| Preferred Cartage Washout Service 108 N 6th Ave | Greeley, CO | Full Service | Garden City Washout | 4.2 | 162 | $53K |
| Club Car Wash 3031 23rd Ave | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.3 | 141 | $53K |
Compare Greeley to other car wash markets in the Greeley metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Greeley, CO car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/greeley-co
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Car wash inventory for Greeley, CO is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Greeley, 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 Greeley MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 833 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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