Lubbock, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Lubbock, TX MSA.
Data updated · September 26, 2026
23,256 Google reviews across 48 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 48
- Chains
- 10
- lead: Mister Car Wash (9)
- Avg rating
- 4.58★
- +0.16 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.1%
- 1.5× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 46% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $4–$12
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $20/mo at Grime Scene Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 261,078
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 105,259
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,439
- 2.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.1
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 48 car wash locations operated by 10 chains and 18 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 62.5% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Mister Car Wash (9 sites).
- Built from 23,256 Google reviews, 9,094 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
48 car wash locations in Lubbock, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Operator concentration in Lubbock sits well above the US-market norm. Across 48 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 62.5% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Mister Car Wash the largest at 9 sites. The headline averages below behave like chain averages — the per-chain table is the right cut to read.
Weighted across all locations the average Google rating is 4.58★; reviewer-reported damage runs at 1.1%, and membership-cancellation friction at 12.3% of mem-discussing reviews. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.90/+1). Because the operator mix is concentrated, those numbers behave more like chain averages than market averages.
Published pricing across the 17 of 49 Lubbock locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $4–$12), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $20–$31/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $20/mo at Grime Scene Car Wash (Hit & Run).
See the best-rated car washes in Lubbock, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Lubbock, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Lubbock, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 17 of 49 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (35% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Lubbock | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grime Scene Car Wash Hit & Run | $20/mo |
| 2 | Grime Scene Car Wash - Quaker Hit & Run | $20/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Lubbock | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OASIS: Optimal Automotive Solutions and Innovative Services Double serve | $4 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
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 Lubbock, TX
How many car washes are in Lubbock, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does Lubbock have?
In a market where 62.5% of locations sit inside a top-10 chain, the format breakdown reflects what those chains bought. Lower-throughput formats (detail shop, full service) generally cluster outside the rolled-up operator set.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.93★ (18 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.07★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 22 | 45.8% | 19,609 | 4.57 | 1.19% | 12.5% |
| Detail Shop | 18 | 37.5% | 1,786 | 4.93 | 0.31% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 8.3% | 503 | 4.07 | 0.80% | 10.0% |
| Full Service | 2 | 4.2% | 549 | 4.44 | 1.36% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 4.2% | 809 | 4.22 | 0.56% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Lubbock car washes?
The scatter below joins IRS Statistics-of-Income (mean AGI per return, 2022 tax year) to each car wash's ZIP. In Lubbock, where chains have aggressively rolled up supply, expect the densest car wash deployment in middle-to-upper-middle income ZIPs.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 48 qualifying locations: 0.22 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $90K AGI/return, 4.60★.
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 | 5 | 6 | 6,623 | 4.63 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 7 | 2,370 | 4.55 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 19 | 7,154 | 4.56 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 16 | 7,109 | 4.55 | Express Tunnel (8) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 6 across 5 ZIPs at 4.63★. In a chain-consolidated market like Lubbock, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most Lubbock car washes?
The chain rank below is the more important section of this page given Lubbock's consolidation. Top 10 operators control 62.5% of 48 locations, anchored by Mister Car Wash's 9-site footprint. Per-chain quality variance below explains most of the market-wide quality variance.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 9 | 7,738 | 4.25 | 1.62% | 20.2% | 0.85% |
| 2 | Mighty Wash #23 | 7 | 9,072 | 4.77 | 0.77% | 4.3% | 0.15% |
| 3 | Lonestar Suds Express Car Wash | 4 | 2,645 | 4.87 | 1.43% | 10.7% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Lubbock Allstar Truck Wash | 2 | 549 | 4.44 | 1.36% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Hurricane Beach Car Wash | 2 | 380 | 4.01 | 0.87% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Grime Scene Car Wash | 2 | 154 | 4.64 | 3.88% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | Pak-A-Sak | 1 | 56 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Tint Avenue | 1 | 22 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Red Baron Car Wash | 1 | 222 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Phillips 66 | 1 | 67 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Lubbock car washes?
Facility cleanliness is the strongest signal here (0.90); equipment reliability runs as the sharpest pain (-0.09). Useful as a quick check on which aspects Lubbock's consolidated supply does well at vs. poorly.
Where are the 48 car washes in Lubbock, TX?
Top locations by review volume in Lubbock are listed below. In a consolidated market, the top of the list is typically dominated by the largest chains' anchor sites; chain affiliation is called out in the Chain column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Mighty Wash #7 of Lubbock 4444 S Loop 289 | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mighty Wash #23 | 4.9 | 3,033 | $44K |
| Mister Car Wash 1710 Mac Davis Ln | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 1,575 | $38K |
| Mighty Wash #5 of Lubbock 6212 19th St | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mighty Wash #23 | 4.6 | 1,381 | $39K |
| Mighty Wash #1 of Lubbock 6506 82nd St | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mighty Wash #23 | 4.7 | 1,370 | $120K |
| Mister Car Wash 6707 Milwaukee Ave | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,360 | $120K |
| Mighty Wash #9 of Lubbock 3011 50th St | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mighty Wash #23 | 4.7 | 1,295 | $62K |
| Mister Car Wash 2010 W Loop 289 Acc Rd | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,065 | $83K |
| Mister Car Wash 10102 Slide Rd | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 1,052 | $120K |
| Mighty Wash #11 of Lubbock 4416 114th St | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mighty Wash #23 | 4.9 | 1,015 | $120K |
| Mister Car Wash 7401 University Ave | Lubbock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 958 | $97K |
Data as of 2026-09-26. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, September 26). Lubbock, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/lubbock-tx
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Car wash inventory for Lubbock, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Lubbock, 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 Lubbock MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 9,094 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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