Layton, UT Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Ogden, UT MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
Layton car wash market analysis: 14 locations, 7 chains, 4,883 customer reviews. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Mister Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.48★
- +0.07 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.8%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 82,512
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 27,553
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,894
- 3.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.48★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,883 Google reviews, 1,979 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Layton, UT · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Layton sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 14 locations across 7 chains and 7 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 14-location market weighs in at 4.48★; damage rate 1.8%; cancel friction 6.7%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.93/+1). 4,883 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,979 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Layton, UT
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Layton, UT
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 8 car-wash loans in Layton, UT worth $9.2M, at a median of $1,458,500 per car wash and a 16.7% charge-off rate. About 43% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open38% · $695K
- Expansion / improvement50% · $1.6M
- Working capital13% · $150K
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 Layton, UT
How many car washes are in Layton, UT?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Layton, UT?
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Which car wash chains operate in Layton, UT?
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What is the median household income near Layton car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Layton, UT?
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What kinds of car washes does Layton have?
The format mix in Layton 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: Detail Shop at 5.00★ (5 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.40★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 7 | 50.0% | 4,317 | 4.45 | 2.07% | 6.8% |
| Detail Shop | 5 | 35.7% | 295 | 5.00 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.1% | 252 | 4.40 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 7.1% | 19 | 4.80 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Layton car washes?
Each ZIP in Layton 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 14 qualifying locations: 0.10 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $79K AGI/return, 4.68★.
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 | 1 | 13 | 4,375 | 4.45 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 508 | 4.80 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ 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 Layton car washes?
7 chains alongside 7 independents make up Layton'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 550 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Wash Factory | 1 | 265 | 4.50 | 1.67% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 397 | 4.70 | 1.83% | 8.8% | 0.46% |
| 4 | Ultimate Express Car Wash | 1 | 657 | 4.90 | 1.50% | 5.6% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Hidden Cove Car Wash | 1 | 252 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 1 | 1,715 | 4.30 | 5.90% | 14.6% | 0.66% |
| 7 | Shiny Shell Carwash | 1 | 508 | 4.80 | 0.23% | 1.5% | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Layton car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. facility cleanliness is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 14 car washes in Layton, UT?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Layton. The full set of 14 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 950 W Hill Field Rd | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,715 | $77K |
| Ultimate Express Car Wash 270 E Antelope Dr | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Ultimate Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 657 | $77K |
| Mister Car Wash 1182 N Main St | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.0 | 550 | $77K |
| Shiny Shell Carwash 1495 UT-193 | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Shiny Shell Carwash | 4.8 | 508 | $107K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 2150 W Antelope Dr | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.7 | 397 | $77K |
| Wash Factory 1280 N Main St | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | Wash Factory | 4.5 | 265 | $77K |
| Hidden Cove Car Wash 2099 Main St | Layton, UT | Self-Serve Bay | Hidden Cove Car Wash | 4.4 | 252 | $77K |
| ProShine Auto Wash 507 N Main St | Layton, UT | Express Tunnel | — | 4.1 | 225 | $77K |
| Dr Clean Mobile Detailing 2085 N Fort Ln Unit 12 | Layton, UT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 186 | $77K |
| Premium Restyling 3145 N 750 E UNIT #4 | Layton, UT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 35 | $77K |
Compare Layton to other car wash markets in the Ogden 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 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Layton, UT car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/layton-ut
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Car wash inventory for Layton, UT is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Layton, 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 Ogden MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,979 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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