Gulfport, MS Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Gulfport's car wash market built from 2,714 Google reviews across 9 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 4
- lead: PitStop Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.37★
- Damage rate
- 2.3%
- 1.5× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 44% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 72,533
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 28,420
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,059
- 4.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.4
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.37★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,714 Google reviews, 691 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Gulfport, MS · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Gulfport — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 9 locations across 4 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.37★, damage 2.3%, cancel friction 7.0%. Staff strong (0.74); equipment reliability weak (-0.47). 2,714 Google reviews drive the analysis, 691 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Gulfport, MS
Ranked by Google review rating
About Gulfport, MS
How many car washes are in Gulfport, MS?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Gulfport, MS?
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Which car wash chains operate in Gulfport, MS?
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What is the median household income near Gulfport car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Gulfport, MS?
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What kinds of car washes does Gulfport have?
Format counts below split Gulfport's 9 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★ (4 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 44.4% | 322 | 4.79 | 0.94% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 44.4% | 1,800 | 4.38 | 3.16% | 4.1% |
| Full Service | 1 | 11.1% | 592 | 4.10 | 1.49% | 28.6% |
What is the typical household income near Gulfport car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Gulfport tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: -0.38 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $53K 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 | 1 | 4 | 650 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 6 | 2,064 | 4.30 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 4 sites, 4.59★. Across Gulfport's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Gulfport car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Gulfport by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | PitStop Car Wash | 2 | 1,163 | 4.37 | 1.61% | 3.1% | 0.00% |
| 2 | Rich's Car Wash | 1 | 585 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Classy Chassis | 1 | 592 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Cheeky Monkey Car Wash | 1 | 52 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Gulfport car washes?
Seven aspects, 691 reviews, 9 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Gulfport's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 9 car washes in Gulfport, MS?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Gulfport 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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| PitStop Car Wash 11319 US 49 | Gulfport, MS | Express Tunnel | PitStop Car Wash | 4.3 | 763 | $62K |
| Classy Chassis Express Wash & Detail Center 12126 US 49 | Gulfport, MS | Full Service | Classy Chassis | 4.1 | 592 | $62K |
| Rich's Car Wash - Gulfport 2018 E Pass Rd | Gulfport, MS | Express Tunnel | Rich's Car Wash | 4.4 | 585 | $69K |
| PitStop Car Wash 2513 34th St | Gulfport, MS | Express Tunnel | PitStop Car Wash | 4.5 | 400 | $38K |
| Sparkle Car Cleaning 2912 13th St | Gulfport, MS | Detail Shop | — | 4.4 | 113 | $38K |
| Dre's Mobile Detailing 3716 18th St | Gulfport, MS | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 75 | $38K |
| Carbon Auto Spa 3152b Holloway Dr | Gulfport, MS | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 62 | $38K |
| Cheeky Monkey Car Wash 11252 Lorraine Rd | Gulfport, MS | Express Tunnel | Cheeky Monkey Car Wash | 4.5 | 52 | $62K |
| Just Like New Overspray Removal and Catastrophe Services 2059 E Pass Rd Suite 1 | Gulfport, MS | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 12 | $69K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Gulfport, MS car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/gulfport-ms
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Car wash inventory for Gulfport, MS is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Gulfport, 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 Gulfport MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 691 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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