Loves Park, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Rockford, IL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Loves Park's car wash market built from 1,749 Google reviews across 11 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Phillips 66 (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.29★
- -0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 5.4%
- 3.5× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $10–$25
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $19.99/mo at Tommy's Express® Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 23,185
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 9,972
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,108
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 4.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.29★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,749 Google reviews, 607 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Loves Park, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Loves Park — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 11 locations across 7 chains and 3 independents. Customer-experience signals across 607 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 11-location market weighs in at 4.29★; damage rate 5.4%; cancel friction 11.6%. Wait time is the brightest aspect signal (0.74/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 7 of 12 Loves Park locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $10–$25), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $19.99–$100/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.99/mo at Tommy's Express® Car Wash (QUALITY).
See the best-rated car washes in Loves Park, IL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Loves Park, IL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Loves Park, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (58% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Loves Park | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $19.99/mo |
| 2 | Tsunami Express Car Wash The Big Wave | $19.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24/mo |
| 5 | Billups's Auto Detailing LLC Maintenance Membership | $100/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Loves Park | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $10 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Tsunami Express Car Wash The Big Wave | $10 |
| 4 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $11 |
| 5 | Windsor Hand Wash Detail Express | $18 |
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 Loves Park, IL
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What kinds of car washes does Loves Park have?
The format mix in Loves Park 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 4.53★ (1 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.84★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 4 | 36.4% | 567 | 4.15 | 8.87% | 11.6% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 36.4% | 188 | 3.84 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 18.2% | 302 | 4.32 | 4.17% | — |
| Detail Shop | 1 | 9.1% | 692 | 4.53 | 0.93% | — |
What is the typical household income near Loves Park car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Loves Park tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $67K AGI/return, 4.13★.
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 | 1,749 | 4.29 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Loves Park's 11 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Loves Park car washes?
7 chains alongside 3 independents make up Loves Park'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 | Phillips 66 | 2 | 120 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 125 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 1 | 100 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 237 | 4.00 | 12.75% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 105 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Kelley's Market | 1 | 13 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
| 7 | bp | 1 | 55 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Loves Park 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. wait time is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 11 car washes in Loves Park, IL?
11 car washes are tracked in Loves Park; 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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| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 6803 Forest Hills Rd | Loves Park, IL | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.0 | 237 | $67K |
| Windsor Hand Wash Detail 518 Windsor Rd | Loves Park, IL | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 219 | $67K |
| Club Car Wash 9572 Forest Hills Rd | Loves Park, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.2 | 125 | $67K |
| Mister Car Wash 7422 E Riverside Blvd | Loves Park, IL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 105 | $67K |
| Tsunami Express Car Wash 6245 N 2nd St | Loves Park, IL | Express Tunnel | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 100 | $67K |
| Phillips 66 7650 N Alpine Rd | Loves Park, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Phillips 66 | 3.9 | 96 | $67K |
| Wash Factory 1104 River Ln | Loves Park, IL | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 83 | $67K |
| bp 7924 N Alpine Rd | Loves Park, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.9 | 55 | $67K |
| Billups's Auto Detailing LLC 6110 Broadcast Pkwy | Loves Park, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 38 | $67K |
| Phillips 66 6897 Broadcast Pkwy | Loves Park, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Phillips 66 | 3.4 | 24 | $67K |
Compare Loves Park to other car wash markets in the Rockford 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 22). Loves Park, IL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/loves-park-il
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Car wash inventory for Loves Park, IL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Loves Park, 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 Rockford MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 607 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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