Longmont, CO Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Boulder, CO MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
3,504 Google reviews across 15 car washes in Longmont. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.27★
- -0.14 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 4.1%
- 2.6× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 53% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 98,958
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 41,066
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,597
- 3.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 9 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.27★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,504 Google reviews, 705 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Longmont, CO · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Longmont — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 15 locations across 4 chains and 9 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.27★, damage 4.1%, cancel friction 12.9%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.59). 3,504 Google reviews drive the analysis, 705 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Longmont, CO
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Longmont, CO
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 7 car-wash loans in Longmont, CO worth $6.2M, at a median of $700,000 per car wash. About 20% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open14% · $392K
- Expansion / improvement86% · $864K
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 Longmont, CO
How many car washes are in Longmont, CO?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Longmont, CO?
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Which car wash chains operate in Longmont, CO?
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What is the median household income near Longmont car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Longmont, CO?
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What kinds of car washes does Longmont have?
The format mix in Longmont 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 4.83★ (8 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.11★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 53.3% | 505 | 4.83 | 0.58% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 26.7% | 714 | 4.11 | 2.96% | 13.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 13.3% | 2,233 | 4.19 | 11.96% | 13.2% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 6.7% | 52 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Longmont car washes?
Each ZIP in Longmont 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 15 qualifying locations: 0.23 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $84K AGI/return, 4.53★.
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 | 12 | 3,343 | 4.25 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 3 | 161 | 4.71 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Longmont's 15 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Longmont car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Longmont by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 2 | 2,233 | 4.19 | 11.96% | 13.2% | 3.26% |
| 2 | Freedom Auto Wash - Denver North | 2 | 336 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Autowash Headquarters | 1 | 279 | 4.10 | 3.57% | — | 0.89% |
| 4 | Conoco | 1 | 99 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Longmont car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 705 AI-extracted reviews across 15 Longmont 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 Longmont, CO?
15 car washes are tracked in Longmont; 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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| Breeze Thru Car Wash - Ken Pratt Longmont 1213 Ken Pratt Blvd | Longmont, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.1 | 1,545 | $69K |
| Breeze Thru Car Wash - Main St Longmont 2025 Main St | Longmont, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.4 | 688 | $69K |
| Autowash @ Longmont Car Wash 1420 Main St | Longmont, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Autowash Headquarters | 4.1 | 279 | $69K |
| Freedom Auto Wash - Longmont South 1151 Delaware Ave | Longmont, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Freedom Auto Wash - Denver North | 4.1 | 182 | $69K |
| Freedom Auto Wash - Longmont North 1900 Terry St | Longmont, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Freedom Auto Wash - Denver North | 4.1 | 154 | $69K |
| Grizzly Mobile Detailing LLC 1830 Delaware Pl Unit 7 | Longmont, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 100 | $69K |
| Conoco 2250 Mountain View Ave | Longmont, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Conoco | 4.2 | 99 | $69K |
| Mike's Custom Paint And Body. 1935 Main St | Longmont, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 94 | $69K |
| Premier Touch Detailing 41 3rd Ave | Longmont, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 81 | $69K |
| Max’s Mobile Detailing LLC 803 Bittersweet Ln | Longmont, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 65 | $147K |
Compare Longmont to other car wash markets in the Boulder 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, June 9). Longmont, CO car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/longmont-co
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Car wash inventory for Longmont, CO is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Longmont, 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 Boulder MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 705 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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