Hialeah, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,093 Google reviews across 12 Hialeah car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 2
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.85★
- +0.44 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.1%
- 11.6× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 58% of classified
- Median unlimited
- $35/mo
- cheapest $35/mo at Elite Mobile Auto Spa
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 221,901
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 77,294
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 18,492
- 9.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 58.3% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,093 Google reviews, 739 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Hialeah, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Hialeah's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 58.3% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. Operating-quality signals below are best read as a study of detail shop's execution.
Average rating 4.85★; damage 0.1%; detail shop averages 4.95★. Aspect-level: Membership value strong (1.00), equipment reliability weak (-1.00). 1,093 Google reviews back the analysis, 739 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 1 of 12 Hialeah locations with menus available: median unlimited membership $35/month (range $35–$35/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $35/mo at Elite Mobile Auto Spa (Maintenance Subscription).
See the best-rated car washes in Hialeah, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Hialeah, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Hialeah, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 1 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (8% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Hialeah | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elite Mobile Auto Spa Maintenance Subscription | $35/mo |
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 Hialeah, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Hialeah have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Hialeah runs as a single-format city for car washing. 58.3% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.95★ (7 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.90★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 58.3% | 860 | 4.95 | 0.15% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 33.3% | 85 | 3.76 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 8.3% | 148 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Hialeah car washes?
Because Hialeah is detail shop-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: 0.32 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $50K AGI/return, 4.51★.
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 | 2 | 4 | 375 | 4.77 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 4 | 8 | 718 | 4.89 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 4 sites at 4.77★. Hialeah's detail shop skew means the income mix reads less as "which formats serve which neighborhoods" and more as "where this one format reaches its limits".
Who operates the most Hialeah car washes?
In Hialeah, the chain rank below is closely tied to format dominance — the largest operators tend to be the ones that built out the dominant detail shop at scale. Per-chain quality numbers help separate format-correlated signal from operator-correlated signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 3 | 59 | 4.15 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Shell | 1 | 26 | 2.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Hialeah car washes?
739 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. detail shop's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are the 12 car washes in Hialeah, FL?
12 locations; the most-reviewed are shown below. In a format-concentrated market, the location table is mostly a leaderboard for the dominant format's top operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| SoFlo Suds Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coating 1299 W 72nd St | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 272 | $62K |
| Detailing Mode Mobile Detailing 696 W 17th St | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 257 | $33K |
| Javi Detail Carwash 1540 W 84th St | Hialeah, FL | Full Service | — | 4.9 | 148 | $62K |
| STG Mobile Detailing & Ceramic Coating 6196 NW 170th Ln | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 118 | $53K |
| Agw Shine Auto Detailing 2375 W 80th St Bay 6 | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 110 | $62K |
| Konig Detailing 230 W 24th St | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 67 | $33K |
| Shell 400 E 25th St | Hialeah, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 2.9 | 26 | $37K |
| bp 1598 W 68th St | Hialeah, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.3 | 26 | $62K |
| Fortador 395 E 10th Ave | Hialeah, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 25 | $33K |
| bp 6780 NW 169th St | Hialeah, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.6 | 19 | $53K |
Compare Hialeah to other car wash markets in the Miami 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, May 20). Hialeah, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/hialeah-fl
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Car wash inventory for Hialeah, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Hialeah, 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 Miami MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 739 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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