Little Rock, AR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
Little Rock car wash market analysis: 15 locations, 6 chains, 4,806 customer reviews. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Splash Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.64★
- +0.23 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 53% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 202,739
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 86,853
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 13,516
- 7.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.64★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,806 Google reviews, 2,045 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Little Rock, AR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 15 car wash locations, Little Rock matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 15 locations across 6 chains and 7 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 15-location market weighs in at 4.64★; damage rate 1.5%; cancel friction 9.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.90/+1). 4,806 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,045 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Little Rock, AR
Ranked by Google review rating
About Little Rock, AR
How many car washes are in Little Rock, AR?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Little Rock, AR?
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Which car wash chains operate in Little Rock, AR?
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What is the median household income near Little Rock car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Little Rock, AR?
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What kinds of car washes does Little Rock 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. Little Rock's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.90★ (8 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.45★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 53.3% | 927 | 4.90 | 0.42% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 33.3% | 3,024 | 4.62 | 1.84% | 9.8% |
| Full Service | 2 | 13.3% | 855 | 4.45 | 1.49% | 10.0% |
What is the typical household income near Little Rock car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Little Rock tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 15 qualifying locations: -0.12 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $95K AGI/return, 4.70★.
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 | 2 | 5 | 1,989 | 4.61 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 1 | 184 | 5.00 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 4 | 646 | 4.49 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 937 | 4.80 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 4 | 1,050 | 4.60 | Express Tunnel (3) |
Income band spread: 4/4.60★ at the highest tier; 5/4.61★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Little Rock car washes?
6 chains alongside 7 independents make up Little Rock'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 | Splash Car Wash | 2 | 855 | 4.45 | 1.49% | 10.0% | 1.12% |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 1,692 | 4.57 | 1.06% | 9.7% | 0.53% |
| 3 | Spearko's Mobile Auto Detailing | 1 | 99 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 383 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 12 | 4.70 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 1 | 937 | 4.80 | 2.76% | 9.2% | 0.42% |
What do customers love and complain about at Little Rock car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,045 AI-extracted reviews across 15 Little Rock car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 15 car washes in Little Rock, AR?
15 car washes are tracked in Little Rock; 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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| Take 5 Car Wash 4220 S University Ave | Little Rock, AR | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,092 | $39K |
| Glide Xpress Car Wash 10115 N Rodney Parham Rd | Little Rock, AR | Express Tunnel | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 4.8 | 937 | $107K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 19420 Cantrell Rd | Little Rock, AR | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 600 | $180K |
| Splash Car Wash 15701 Chenal Pkwy | Little Rock, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.4 | 430 | $96K |
| Splash Car Wash 9020 Geyer Springs Rd | Little Rock, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.5 | 425 | $33K |
| Zips Car Wash 14021 Cantrell Rd | Little Rock, AR | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.4 | 383 | $180K |
| Extreme Clean Auto Studio | Mobile Detailing, Coatings & Films 7123 I-30 Suite 40 | Little Rock, AR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 344 | $33K |
| Diamond State Car Salon, LLC 12120 Colonel Glenn Rd #6800 | Little Rock, AR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 184 | $71K |
| Slick Auto Care 920 Shall Ave | Little Rock, AR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 142 | $91K |
| Webb's Auto Detail and pressure washing 4601 S University Ave | Little Rock, AR | Detail Shop | Spearko's Mobile Auto Detailing | 4.9 | 99 | $39K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Little Rock, AR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/little-rock-ar
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Car wash inventory for Little Rock, AR is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Little Rock, 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 Little Rock MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,045 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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