Haltom City, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Haltom City's car wash market built from 10,822 Google reviews across 9 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Zips Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.51★
- +0.10 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 44% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$12.29
- Median unlimited
- $23.99/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at Fuel City Haltom City
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 45,681
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 17,208
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,076
- 2.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.51★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 10,822 Google reviews, 2,304 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Haltom City, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Haltom City reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 9 locations across 4 chains and 5 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.51★; damage 1.5%; membership-cancel friction 11.7%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.35). 10,822 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,304 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 7 of 9 Haltom City locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$12.29), median unlimited membership $23.99/month (range $15–$55/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at Fuel City Haltom City (Fast Pass).
See the best-rated car washes in Haltom City, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Haltom City, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Haltom City, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (78% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Haltom City | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuel City Haltom City Fast Pass | $15/mo |
| 2 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $20/mo |
| 3 | Cary's Car Wash & Lube Center Basic Wash | $20/mo |
| 4 | Caliber Car Wash Basic Wash | $23.99/mo |
| 5 | Super Star Car Wash - Denton Hwy & Browning Blvd MONTHS 1-6 | $23.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Haltom City | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cary's Car Wash & Lube Center Basic Wash | $10 |
| 2 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $12 |
| 3 | Caliber Car Wash Basic Wash | $12.29 |
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 Haltom City, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 6 car-wash loans in Haltom City, TX worth $11.4M, at a median of $1,968,200 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 40% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open33% · $2.3M
- Acquisition17% · $2.0M
- Expansion / improvement50% · $2.0M
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 Haltom City, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Haltom City have?
Format counts below split Haltom City'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 4.93★ (3 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.49★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 4 | 44.4% | 9,936 | 4.49 | 1.48% | 11.8% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 33.3% | 141 | 4.93 | 1.37% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 22.2% | 745 | 4.66 | 1.99% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Haltom City car washes?
Each ZIP in Haltom City is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: -0.16 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $55K AGI/return, 4.59★.
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 | 5 | 5,131 | 4.36 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 4 | 5,691 | 4.63 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 5/4.36★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Haltom City car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Haltom City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 729 | 4.30 | 2.44% | — | 1.83% |
| 2 | Super Star Car Wash | 1 | 1,620 | 4.50 | 1.50% | 14.4% | 1.36% |
| 3 | Caliber Car Wash | 1 | 3,081 | 4.80 | 1.00% | 9.4% | 0.00% |
| 4 | Fuel City Car Wash | 1 | 4,506 | 4.30 | 3.94% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Haltom City car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,304 AI-extracted reviews across 9 Haltom City car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 9 car washes in Haltom City, TX?
9 car washes are tracked in Haltom City; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Fuel City Haltom City 1715 Haltom Rd | Haltom City, TX | Express Tunnel | Fuel City Car Wash | 4.3 | 4,506 | $48K |
| Caliber Car Wash 5410 N Beach St | Haltom City, TX | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.8 | 3,081 | $70K |
| Super Star Car Wash - Denton Hwy & Browning Blvd 5525 Denton Hwy | Haltom City, TX | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,620 | $59K |
| Zips Car Wash 6221 Denton Hwy | Haltom City, TX | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.3 | 729 | $59K |
| Apollo's Wash N Shine 5601 Starlight Dr | Haltom City, TX | Full Service | — | 4.8 | 484 | $48K |
| Cary's Car Wash & Lube Center 4530 Western Center Blvd | Haltom City, TX | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 261 | $70K |
| Wash Doc Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coatings 2312 Owens St | Haltom City, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 113 | $48K |
| Dent MD 2220 Solona St #A | Haltom City, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 17 | $48K |
| Street Side Customs 5000 NE 28th St | Haltom City, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.3 | 11 | $48K |
Compare Haltom City to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Haltom City, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/haltom-city-tx
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Car wash inventory for Haltom City, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Haltom City, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,304 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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