Keller, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
Keller: 10 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Wash Your Stuff - Grapevine (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.81★
- +0.40 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.9%
- 1.7× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 60% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$15
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $16/mo at Cowboy Express Car Wash and Detail
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 45,598
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,058
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,560
- 2.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.9
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 7 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 60.0% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 5,616 Google reviews, 2,322 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Keller, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Keller's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 60.0% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.81★; damage runs 0.9%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.91★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.93/+1). 5,616 Google reviews back the analysis, 2,322 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 4 of 10 Keller locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$15), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $16–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $16/mo at Cowboy Express Car Wash and Detail (Pony Express).
See the best-rated car washes in Keller, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Keller, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Keller, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (40% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Keller | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cowboy Express Car Wash and Detail Pony Express | $16/mo |
| 2 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash WhiteWater | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Keller | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash WhiteWater | $10 |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
| 3 | Cowboy Express Car Wash and Detail Pony Express | $12 |
| 4 | Wash Your Stuff - Keller Car Wash Better Wash | $15 |
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 Keller, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Keller, TX worth $10.3M, at a median of $2,800,000 per car wash. About 75% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open60% · $2.9M
- Expansion / improvement40% · $1.8M
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 Keller, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Keller have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Keller runs as a single-format city for car washing. 60.0% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.91★ (6 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 60.0% | 472 | 4.91 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 30.0% | 4,815 | 4.85 | 1.03% | 12.9% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 10.0% | 329 | 4.10 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Keller car washes?
Income context is most useful in Keller for understanding where detail shop clusters: typically in suburban middle-income ZIPs where its unit economics work. The scatter below makes the pattern visible.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $168K AGI/return, 4.83★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 1 | 10 | 5,616 | 4.81 | Detail Shop (6) |
Highest vs. lowest income tier: 10 sites/4.81★ vs. 0 sites/0.00★. Where the dominant format runs 60.0% of classified sites, the per-tier breakdown mostly reflects how that single format ranges across income levels.
Who operates the most Keller car washes?
Because Keller skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wash Your Stuff - Grapevine | 1 | 329 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Cowboy Express Car Wash | 1 | 725 | 4.90 | 0.74% | 3.3% | 0.19% |
| 3 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 769 | 4.60 | 2.06% | 24.1% | 1.38% |
What do customers love and complain about at Keller car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.93); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (0.07).
Where are the 10 car washes in Keller, TX?
Top locations by review count in Keller. With 60.0% of classified sites running as detail shop, the format column below reads consistently rather than varying across the list.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 788 Keller Pkwy | Keller, TX | Express Tunnel | — | 4.9 | 3,321 | $168K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 1751 S Main St | Keller, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.6 | 769 | $168K |
| Cowboy Express Car Wash and Detail 1655 Keller Pkwy | Keller, TX | Express Tunnel | Cowboy Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 725 | $168K |
| Wash Your Stuff - Keller Car Wash 412 N Main St | Keller, TX | Self-Serve Bay | Wash Your Stuff - Grapevine | 4.1 | 329 | $168K |
| WaterwerkzDFW Premium Paint Protection and Detailing 8801 Davis Blvd Suite 2C | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 219 | $168K |
| C2 Auto Detailing 340 N La Quinta Cir | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 92 | $168K |
| Southlake’s Mobile Detail Specialist 2409 Southern Hills Ct | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 64 | $168K |
| Detailing Garage - The Original 1495 S Main St # 105 | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 43 | $168K |
| Grumpy's Auto & Ceramic Detailing 1406 Chase Oaks Dr | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 42 | $168K |
| White Glove Car Detailing 1049 The Lakes Ct | Keller, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 12 | $168K |
Compare Keller to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth 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). Keller, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/keller-tx
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Car wash inventory for Keller, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Keller, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,322 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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