Jamaica, NY Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,942 Google reviews across 13 car washes in Jamaica. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 2
- lead: bp (5)
- Avg rating
- 3.92★
- -0.49 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.2%
- 2.0× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 46% of classified
- Median single wash
- $40
- range $40–$40
- Median unlimited
- $30.47/mo
- cheapest $30.47/mo at Jazzy Wash and Lube
Key findings
- 13 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 3.92★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,942 Google reviews, 537 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Jamaica, NY · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 13 car wash locations, Jamaica matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 13 locations across 2 chains and 7 independents. Customer-experience signals across 537 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 3.92★; damage 3.2%; membership-cancel friction 10.0%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-1.00). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 4 of 13 Jamaica locations with menus available: median single car wash $40 (range $40–$40), median unlimited membership $30.47/month (range $30.47–$30.47/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $30.47/mo at Jazzy Wash and Lube (Unlimited Washes).
See the best-rated car washes in Jamaica, NY
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Jamaica, NY?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Jamaica, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 13 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (31% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Jamaica | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jazzy Wash and Lube Unlimited Washes | $30.47/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Jamaica | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khemsautocare Basic Detail - Cars | $40 |
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 Jamaica, NY
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What kinds of car washes does Jamaica have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Jamaica's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.83★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.30★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 46.2% | 632 | 4.83 | 0.51% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 5 | 38.5% | 372 | 3.55 | 2.70% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.7% | 354 | 3.70 | 16.67% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 7.7% | 584 | 3.30 | 10.96% | 10.0% |
What is the typical household income near Jamaica car washes?
Each ZIP in Jamaica 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 13 qualifying locations: -0.39 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $58K AGI/return, 4.12★.
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 | 1 | 1 | 584 | 3.30 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 7 | 12 | 1,358 | 4.19 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 1 sites across 1 ZIPs at 3.30★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Jamaica car washes?
2 chains alongside 7 independents make up Jamaica's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 5 | 372 | 3.55 | — | — | — |
| 2 | RetroClean Detailing - Jamaica | 1 | 45 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Jamaica car washes?
Seven aspects, 537 reviews, 13 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Jamaica's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 13 car washes in Jamaica, NY?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Jamaica. The full set of 13 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Jazzy Wash and Lube 107-05 Merrick Blvd | Jamaica, NY | Express Tunnel | — | 3.3 | 584 | $46K |
| Crystal Car Wash 216-25 Hempstead Ave | Jamaica, NY | Full Service | — | 3.7 | 354 | $54K |
| Full Spectrum Auto Spa 135-41 121st St | Jamaica, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 174 | $50K |
| Mr.FoamDetailing 148-11 175th St | Jamaica, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 167 | $53K |
| bp 144-31 Farmers Blvd | Jamaica, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.6 | 149 | $53K |
| Khemsautocare 176th St | Jamaica, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 113 | $58K |
| bp 138-19 Hillside Ave. | Jamaica, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.8 | 76 | $51K |
| D&A Auto Body Shop 180-02 Jamaica Ave | Jamaica, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 74 | $58K |
| bp 241-15 Hillside Ave. | Jamaica, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.2 | 63 | $74K |
| AD's Mobile Auto Spa & Detailing 177-34 129th Ave | Jamaica, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 59 | $53K |
Compare Jamaica to other car wash markets in the New York 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). Jamaica, NY car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/jamaica-ny
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Car wash inventory for Jamaica, NY is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Jamaica, 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 New York MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 537 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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