Lee's Summit, MO Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Kansas City, MO-KS MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
4,540 Google reviews across 12 car washes in Lee's Summit. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 5
- lead: bp (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.51★
- +0.10 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 33% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 102,583
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 39,531
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,549
- 4.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.0
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.51★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,540 Google reviews, 1,162 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Lee's Summit, MO · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Lee's Summit sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 12 locations across 5 chains and 6 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,162 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.51★, damage 1.6%, cancel friction 13.1%. Staff strong (0.83); equipment reliability weak (-0.50). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Lee's Summit, MO
Ranked by Google review rating
About Lee's Summit, MO
How many car washes are in Lee's Summit, MO?
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What is the median household income near Lee's Summit car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Lee's Summit, MO?
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What kinds of car washes does Lee's Summit have?
Format counts below split Lee's Summit's 12 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (4 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.80★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 33.3% | 660 | 4.96 | 0.37% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 33.3% | 3,579 | 4.46 | 3.13% | 14.4% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 16.7% | 115 | 3.80 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 8.3% | 135 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 8.3% | 51 | 4.60 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Lee's Summit car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Lee's Summit tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: -0.05 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $103K AGI/return, 4.47★.
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 | 1 | 3 | 1,746 | 4.83 | In-Bay Automatic (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 4 | 9 | 2,794 | 4.31 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $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 Lee's Summit car washes?
5 chains run sites in Lee's Summit; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bp | 2 | 115 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Ultra Clean Car Wash Kansas City | 1 | 658 | 4.70 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Charlie's Car Wash | 1 | 818 | 4.10 | 1.60% | — | 0.80% |
| 4 | Waterway Carwash | 1 | 51 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 5 | GO Car Wash | 1 | 820 | 4.10 | 5.20% | 21.3% | 2.89% |
What do customers love and complain about at Lee's Summit 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. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 12 car washes in Lee's Summit, MO?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Lee's Summit market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Clean Car Wash 910 E Langsford Rd | Lee's Summit, MO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.8 | 1,283 | $74K |
| GO Car Wash 890 NE Mulberry St | Lee's Summit, MO | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.1 | 820 | $106K |
| Charlie's Car Wash 950 NW Chipman Rd | Lee's Summit, MO | Express Tunnel | Charlie's Car Wash | 4.1 | 818 | $106K |
| Ultra Clean Car Wash Lee's Summit 360 NE Colbern Rd | Lee's Summit, MO | Express Tunnel | Ultra Clean Car Wash Kansas City | 4.7 | 658 | $106K |
| Bespoke Refinement Kansas City Car Detailing 210 SW Market St Suite 118 | Lee's Summit, MO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 429 | $74K |
| Bubble Time Car Wash 635 NE Woods Chapel Rd | Lee's Summit, MO | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.1 | 135 | $133K |
| DL Detail & Window Tinting 60 SE Thompson Dr #2 | Lee's Summit, MO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 94 | $114K |
| bp 12416 SW State Rte 7 | Lee's Summit, MO | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.8 | 81 | $106K |
| Summit Detail 2100 NE Independence Ave | Lee's Summit, MO | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 76 | $133K |
| ShowCar of Kansas City 1206 NE Douglas St | Lee's Summit, MO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 61 | $106K |
Compare Lee's Summit to other car wash markets in the Kansas City 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 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Lee's Summit, MO car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/lee-s-summit-mo
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Car wash inventory for Lee's Summit, MO is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Lee's Summit, 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 Kansas City MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,162 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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