Kokomo, IN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Kokomo, IN MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,727 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Kokomo. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 5
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.35★
- -0.06 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.2%
- 2.0× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$16
- Median unlimited
- $20/mo
- cheapest $19.99/mo at Tsunami Express Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 59,375
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 26,027
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,398
- 2.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.35★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,727 Google reviews, 686 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Kokomo, IN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Kokomo sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 11 locations across 5 chains and 4 independents. The signals worth surfacing here come from format mix and per-aspect customer-experience reads, not from concentration anomalies.
Weighted rating 4.35★; damage 3.2%; membership-cancel friction 15.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.77/+1). 2,727 Google reviews drive the analysis, 686 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 11 Kokomo locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$16), median unlimited membership $20/month (range $19.99–$32/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.99/mo at Tsunami Express Car Wash (The Big Wave).
See the best-rated car washes in Kokomo, IN
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Kokomo, IN?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Kokomo, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (36% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Kokomo | ||
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| 1 | Tsunami Express Car Wash The Big Wave | $19.99/mo |
| 2 | Tip Top Car Wash - Kokomo Express Plus Monthly | $20/mo |
| 3 | Marie's Car Wash Inc. Super Wash | $32/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Kokomo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsunami Express Car Wash The Big Wave | $10 |
| 2 | CJ's Car Wash Deluxe Shine - Pro Touch | $10 |
| 3 | Marie's Car Wash Inc. Super Wash | $16 |
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 Kokomo, IN
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What kinds of car washes does Kokomo 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. Kokomo's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.56★ (3 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.20★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 4 | 36.4% | 2,246 | 4.36 | 3.54% | 15.9% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 27.3% | 103 | 4.56 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 27.3% | 73 | 4.33 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 9.1% | 305 | 4.20 | 2.86% | — |
What is the typical household income near Kokomo car washes?
Each ZIP in Kokomo 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 11 qualifying locations: -0.23 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $61K AGI/return, 4.45★.
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 | 2 | 11 | 2,727 | 4.35 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Kokomo's 11 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Kokomo car washes?
5 chains alongside 4 independents make up Kokomo'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 | 3 | 73 | 4.33 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Premier Auto Detailing | 1 | 25 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Tip Top Car Wash - Kokomo | 1 | 129 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Crew Carwash | 1 | 1,226 | 4.30 | 5.79% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 1 | 589 | 4.40 | 1.98% | 15.6% | 0.28% |
What do customers love and complain about at Kokomo car washes?
Seven aspects, 686 reviews, 11 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Kokomo's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 11 car washes in Kokomo, IN?
11 car washes are tracked in Kokomo; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Crew Carwash 1824 E Hoffer St | Kokomo, IN | Express Tunnel | Crew Carwash | 4.3 | 1,226 | $62K |
| Tsunami Express Car Wash 515 E Southway Blvd | Kokomo, IN | Express Tunnel | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 4.4 | 589 | $62K |
| CJ's Car Wash 535 W Alto Rd | Kokomo, IN | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.2 | 305 | $62K |
| Marie's Car Wash Inc. 3550 S Lafountain St | Kokomo, IN | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 302 | $62K |
| Tip Top Car Wash - Kokomo 2435 W Jefferson St | Kokomo, IN | Express Tunnel | Tip Top Car Wash - Kokomo | 4.6 | 129 | $57K |
| Top Of The Line Auto Detailing 527 W Alto Rd | Kokomo, IN | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 66 | $62K |
| Amoco 305 S 00ew | Kokomo, IN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.5 | 30 | $62K |
| Premier Auto Detailing at McGonigal 2828 E Markland Ave Suite B | Kokomo, IN | Detail Shop | Premier Auto Detailing | 4.5 | 25 | $57K |
| bp 2020 S Washington St | Kokomo, IN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 25 | $62K |
| bp 2405 W Jefferson St | Kokomo, IN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.5 | 18 | $57K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Kokomo, IN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/kokomo-in
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Car wash inventory for Kokomo, IN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Kokomo, 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 Kokomo MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 686 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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