Livermore, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
2,049 Google reviews across 12 Livermore car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Shell (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.55★
- +0.14 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.7%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 58% of classified
- Median single wash
- $47.99
- range $47.99–$47.99
- Median unlimited
- $37.95/mo
- cheapest $37.95/mo at Autopia Car Wash - Livermore
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 238,826
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 83,864
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 19,902
- 10.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 58.3% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,049 Google reviews, 773 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Livermore, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Livermore's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 12 locations sit in the market; 58.3% of the classified subset are detail shop, averaging 4.86★. Operating-quality signals below are best read as a study of detail shop's execution.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.55★; damage runs 1.7%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.86★ on its own. Aspect-level: Staff strong (0.91), equipment reliability weak (-0.80). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
Published pricing across the 2 of 15 Livermore locations with menus available: median single car wash $47.99 (range $47.99–$47.99), median unlimited membership $37.95/month (range $37.95–$37.95/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $37.95/mo at Autopia Car Wash - Livermore (Super).
See the best-rated car washes in Livermore, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Livermore, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Livermore, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (13% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Livermore | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autopia Car Wash - Livermore Super | $37.95/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Livermore | ||
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| 1 | Splashes Car Wash Royal Wash | $47.99 |
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 Livermore, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Livermore have?
Detail shop dominates Livermore — 58.3% of formally-classified locations. The table below shows how the long tail breaks down: typically a thin layer of full-service, detail-shop, or self-serve operators serving a different occasion than the dominant format.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.86★ (7 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.39★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 58.3% | 1,421 | 4.86 | 0.99% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 25.0% | 102 | 3.39 | 33.33% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 16.7% | 526 | 3.92 | 5.45% | 14.3% |
What is the typical household income near Livermore car washes?
Income context is most useful in Livermore 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 12 qualifying locations: -0.37 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $151K AGI/return, 4.23★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 10 | 1,804 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 5 | 245 | 4.23 | Detail Shop (3) |
5 car washes at the top income tier (4.23★) vs. 0 at the bottom (0.00★). Detail shops concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Livermore car washes?
2 chains compete in Livermore, with the top names typically being heavy detail shop operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Shell | 3 | 102 | 3.39 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 1 | 321 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Livermore car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.91); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.80).
Where are the 12 car washes in Livermore, CA?
Top locations by review count in Livermore. With 58.3% 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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| Autopia Car Wash - Livermore 220 N L St | Livermore, CA | Full Service | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 4.0 | 321 | $130K |
| Splashes Car Wash 2186 Las Positas Ct #7301 | Livermore, CA | Full Service | — | 3.8 | 205 | $130K |
| LuxTint 5715 Southfront Rd A2 | Livermore, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 102 | $130K |
| Tri Valley Auto Detailing (Formerly CWProshine) 220 S Livermore Ave | Livermore, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 93 | $180K |
| Color Pro Auto 72 Rickenbacker Cir B | Livermore, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 54 | $130K |
| NM Auto Enhancements 5963 Graham Ct ste c | Livermore, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 51 | $180K |
| Shell 4530 Las Positas Rd | Livermore, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.8 | 51 | $130K |
| Speede 100% Hand Car Wash 2617 Old First St | Livermore, CA | Detail Shop | — | 3.3 | 50 | $180K |
| Shell 809 E Stanley Blvd | Livermore, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 2.5 | 29 | $180K |
| Shell Car Wash 809 E Stanley Blvd | Livermore, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.6 | 22 | $180K |
Compare Livermore to other car wash markets in the San Francisco 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, May 20). Livermore, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/livermore-ca
WashIndex. "Livermore, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/livermore-ca.
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Car wash inventory for Livermore, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Livermore, 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 San Francisco MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 773 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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