Jacksonville, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Jacksonville, FL MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
46,637 reviews across 94 Jacksonville car washes — operating-quality signals run below norm here. Per-chain and per-format quality attribution, aspect-level customer-experience reads.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 94
- Chains
- 14
- lead: GATE Express Carwash (11)
- Avg rating
- 4.61★
- +0.20 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.9%
- 1.8× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 51% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $4.99–$28.60
- Median unlimited
- $32.99/mo
- cheapest $19.95/mo at Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 961,739
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 384,741
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 10,231
- 5.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 94 car wash locations operated by 14 chains and 47 independents.
- Reviewer-reported damage rate of 0.9% runs 1.8× below the 1.6% US-market median.
- Built from 46,637 Google reviews, 16,884 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
94 car wash locations in Jacksonville, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Jacksonville stands out for operational-quality signals that are below the typical US market norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 0.9% across 94 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. Reading the operator-level breakdown below shows which segments drive the outlier signal.
Average rating 4.61★ (above 4.41★ peer median); cancel friction 9.0%. Equipment reliability runs at -0.17 — the sharpest pain point measurable from these reviews. 46,637 Google reviews underpin the quality cut, 16,884 AI-extracted.
Published pricing across the 25 of 102 Jacksonville locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $4.99–$28.60), median unlimited membership $32.99/month (range $19.95–$89.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.95/mo at Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change (Bronze Exterior).
See the best-rated car washes in Jacksonville, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Jacksonville, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Jacksonville, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 25 of 102 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (25% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Jacksonville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change Bronze Exterior | $19.95/mo |
| 2 | Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS | $23/mo |
| 3 | Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS | $23/mo |
| 4 | Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS | $23/mo |
| 5 | Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS | $23/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Jacksonville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change Bronze Exterior | $4.99 |
| 2 | Prime Car Wash Express Wash | $8 |
| 3 | Beaches Car Wash & Gift Gallery Good Value Wash | $8 |
| 4 | Prime Car Wash Flex Wash | $9 |
| 5 | Whistle Express Car Wash INCLUDES PROTECT | $10 |
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 Jacksonville, FL
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 19 car-wash loans in Jacksonville, FL worth $28.3M, at a median of $1,236,000 per car wash and a 11.1% charge-off rate. About 56% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
FY2026 annualized from its first 6 months.
- New build / open47% · $1.6M
- Expansion / improvement47% · $872K
- Working capital5% · $5K
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 Jacksonville, FL
How many car washes are in Jacksonville, FL?
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What kinds of car washes does Jacksonville have?
Format counts below show how Jacksonville stacks formats. In quality-outlier markets, the more interesting cut is usually the damage-rate column rather than the count column — that's where the operating story shows up.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.82★ (48 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.92★ (15 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 48 | 51.1% | 7,544 | 4.82 | 0.77% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 24 | 25.5% | 30,414 | 4.70 | 0.90% | 8.5% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 15 | 16.0% | 1,751 | 3.92 | 1.40% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 7 | 7.4% | 6,928 | 4.20 | 0.89% | 12.5% |
What is the typical household income near Jacksonville car washes?
The scatter pairs each car wash's Google rating against the mean IRS AGI per return in its ZIP. Reads of Jacksonville's quality signal benefit from this overlay — does the friction concentrate in lower-income ZIPs, or does it persist across them?
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 94 qualifying locations: -0.01 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $83K AGI/return, 4.52★.
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 | 4 | 9 | 5,947 | 4.77 | Detail Shop (8) |
| $50K – $75K | 8 | 42 | 17,762 | 4.61 | Detail Shop (22) |
| $75K – $100K | 6 | 30 | 12,483 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (16) |
| $100K – $150K | 5 | 19 | 7,941 | 4.58 | Detail Shop (10) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 2 | 2,504 | 4.54 | Full Service (1) |
Top tier: 2 sites, 4.54★ avg. Bottom tier: 9 sites, 4.77★. Whether Jacksonville's elevated quality signal concentrates in a specific income band or runs market-wide is visible in the rating column below.
Who operates the most Jacksonville car washes?
In a quality-outlier market like Jacksonville, the chain rank below is the cleanest attribution cut: which chains pull the metro damage rate up vs. down, and which sit in line. The damage and cancel columns are the columns to read here.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GATE Express Carwash | 11 | 5,560 | 4.40 | 3.04% | 10.9% | 0.63% |
| 2 | bp | 8 | 233 | 3.78 | — | — | — |
| 3 | LUV Car Wash | 6 | 16,975 | 4.81 | 0.60% | 4.9% | 0.18% |
| 4 | Circle K | 5 | 1,373 | 3.94 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Whistle Express Car Wash | 5 | 6,301 | 4.65 | 1.13% | 14.5% | 0.61% |
| 6 | Auto Detail of America | 2 | 111 | 4.86 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Prime Car Wash | 2 | 3,693 | 4.44 | 0.57% | 11.5% | 0.52% |
| 8 | Shell | 2 | 145 | 3.93 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Beaches Car Wash & Gift Gallery | 1 | 270 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Onsite shine | 1 | 26 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Pit Speed Mobile Detailing | 1 | 198 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 1,542 | 4.70 | 0.15% | — | 0.00% |
| 13 | ALSET Auto | 1 | 94 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 168 | 4.00 | 0.88% | — | 0.88% |
What do customers love and complain about at Jacksonville car washes?
Equipment reliability at -0.17 is the sharpest friction signal in Jacksonville — read alongside the elevated damage rate above for the operating story.
Where are the 94 car washes in Jacksonville, FL?
The locations table below is the right place to look in a quality-outlier market: it lets you see which specific sites carry the most review volume and how their ratings compare to the metro-wide average of 4.61★.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| LUV Car Wash 8714 Atlantic Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.8 | 5,139 | $48K |
| LUV Car Wash 5064 Weebers Crossing Dr | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.7 | 3,731 | $71K |
| LUV Car Wash 9826 San Jose Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.9 | 2,798 | $79K |
| LUV Car Wash 11991 Atlantic Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.8 | 2,164 | $92K |
| LUV Car Wash 7780 Blanding Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.9 | 2,026 | $51K |
| Prime Car Wash 11860 San Jose Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Full Service | Prime Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,939 | $117K |
| Whistle Express Car Wash 9200 Merrill Rd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | Whistle Express Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,850 | $92K |
| Prime Car Wash 14190 Beach Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Full Service | Prime Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,754 | $167K |
| Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change 9715 Atlantic Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 1,595 | $92K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 13480 Beach Blvd | Jacksonville, FL | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,542 | $131K |
Compare Jacksonville to other car wash markets in the Jacksonville 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, June 9). Jacksonville, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/jacksonville-fl
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Car wash inventory for Jacksonville, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 16,884 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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