Hillsboro, OR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
Hillsboro: 11 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Kaady Car Washes (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.59★
- +0.18 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.5%
- 1.6× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 73% of classified
- Median single wash
- $6
- range $6–$6
- Median unlimited
- $100/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at Crystal Vision Auto Detailing
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 107,050
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 41,304
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 9,732
- 5.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 7 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 72.7% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 3,328 Google reviews, 764 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Hillsboro, OR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Hillsboro's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 72.7% 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.
Headline operating signals: 4.59★ rating, 2.5% damage, 0.0% cancel friction. Aspect-level: Staff strong (0.93), membership value weak (-0.25). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
Published pricing across the 2 of 13 Hillsboro locations with menus available: median single car wash $6 (range $6–$6), median unlimited membership $100/month (range $15–$100/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at Crystal Vision Auto Detailing (Pro).
See the best-rated car washes in Hillsboro, OR
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Hillsboro, OR?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Hillsboro, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 13 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (15% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Hillsboro | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crystal Vision Auto Detailing Pro | $15/mo |
| 2 | OlympiClean Auto Detail Monthly Maintenance Membership - Small | $100/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Hillsboro | ||
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| 1 | Crystal Vision Auto Detailing Starter | $6 |
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 Hillsboro, OR
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What kinds of car washes does Hillsboro have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Hillsboro runs as a single-format city for car washing. 72.7% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.94★ (8 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.41★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 72.7% | 1,120 | 4.94 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 27.3% | 2,208 | 4.41 | 10.27% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Hillsboro car washes?
Because Hillsboro 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 11 qualifying locations: 0.05 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $96K AGI/return, 4.75★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 13 | 3,328 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (10) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Hillsboro'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 Hillsboro car washes?
In Hillsboro, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaady Car Washes | 2 | 2,071 | 4.46 | 10.80% | — | 1.14% |
| 2 | 76 | 1 | 137 | 3.60 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Squeegee Detail | 1 | 11 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Hillsboro car washes?
764 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 11 car washes in Hillsboro, OR?
11 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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| Kaady Car Wash 2900 SE 70th Ave | Hillsboro, OR | In-Bay Automatic | Kaady Car Washes | 4.5 | 1,257 | $94K |
| Kaady Car Washes 2170 NE Cornell Rd | Hillsboro, OR | In-Bay Automatic | Kaady Car Washes | 4.4 | 814 | $98K |
| OlympiClean Auto Detail 2827 SE 75th Ave | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 241 | $94K |
| DMH Automotive Enterprises 1095 NE 25th Ave Ste E | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 185 | $98K |
| DMD Mobile Detailing 159 SE Maple St | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 169 | $94K |
| 76 5063 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy | Hillsboro, OR | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.6 | 137 | $94K |
| Kreasion Auto Detailing 2900 SE Cornelius Pass Rd Ste 337 | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 118 | $94K |
| DNS MOBILE DETAILING LLC 121 NE 12th Ave | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 53 | $98K |
| New Again Auto Detail 3084 NE Meadow Ln | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 37 | $98K |
| Crystal Vision Auto Detailing 1973 SE Bush St | Hillsboro, OR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 11 | $94K |
Compare Hillsboro to other car wash markets in the Portland 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 2026-05-20. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Hillsboro, OR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/hillsboro-or
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Car wash inventory for Hillsboro, OR is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Hillsboro, 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 Portland MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 764 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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