Jackson, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Jackson, TN MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Jackson's car wash market built from 5,362 Google reviews across 14 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Take 5 Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.48★
- +0.07 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 68,098
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 27,082
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,864
- 2.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.6
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.48★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,362 Google reviews, 1,925 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Jackson, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Jackson — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 14 locations across 5 chains and 5 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.48★, damage 1.6%, cancel friction 16.0%. Staff strong (0.86); equipment reliability weak (-0.38). 5,362 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,925 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Jackson, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
About Jackson, TN
How many car washes are in Jackson, TN?
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What is the median household income near Jackson car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Jackson, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Jackson have?
The format mix in Jackson reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.49★ (7 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 7 | 50.0% | 5,035 | 4.49 | 1.61% | 16.0% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 21.4% | 112 | 4.48 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 14.3% | 37 | 4.12 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.1% | 64 | 4.50 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.1% | 114 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Jackson car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Jackson tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 14 qualifying locations: -0.28 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $64K AGI/return, 4.48★.
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 | 7 | 754 | 4.50 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 4,608 | 4.47 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 7/4.50★ 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 Jackson car washes?
5 chains run sites in Jackson; 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 |
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| 1 | Take 5 Car Wash | 3 | 3,951 | 4.46 | 1.51% | 14.1% | 0.41% |
| 2 | Parrot's Car Wash | 2 | 359 | 4.50 | 3.31% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | bp | 2 | 37 | 4.12 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Wash 37062 | 1 | 523 | 4.50 | 2.36% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 202 | 4.90 | 0.66% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Jackson car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,925 reviews, 14 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Jackson's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 14 car washes in Jackson, TN?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Jackson. The full set of 14 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Take 5 Car Wash 2729 N Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,639 | $80K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 355 Oil Well Rd | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,434 | $80K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 60 Chloe Pl | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 878 | $80K |
| Wash 38301 1611 S Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Wash 37062 | 4.5 | 523 | $48K |
| Parrot's Car Wash 101 W University Pkwy | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Parrot's Car Wash | 4.5 | 318 | $80K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 788 Vann Dr | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.9 | 202 | $80K |
| Chrome Zone 2164 Hwy 70 E | Jackson, TN | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 114 | $80K |
| Big Willie’s Wash 1587 North Pkwy | Jackson, TN | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.5 | 64 | $48K |
| Sonnys Auto Detailing 148 Airways Blvd | Jackson, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 51 | $48K |
| Corey's Carwash & Detail 306 Lexington Ave | Jackson, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 42 | $48K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Jackson, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/jackson-tn
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Car wash inventory for Jackson, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Jackson, 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 Jackson MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,925 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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