Lutz, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Lutz's car wash market built from 4,730 Google reviews across 12 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.59★
- +0.18 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.4%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 42% of classified
- Median single wash
- $15
- range $6–$15
- Median unlimited
- $29.97/mo
- cheapest $13/mo at Jammin Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 26,731
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 9,329
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,228
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 4.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.59★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,730 Google reviews, 1,898 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Lutz, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Lutz's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 12 locations across 4 chains and 6 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,898 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.59★; damage 1.4%; membership-cancel friction 25.0%. Membership value runs as the sharpest friction (-0.09). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 5 of 12 Lutz locations with menus available: median single car wash $15 (range $6–$15), median unlimited membership $29.97/month (range $13–$29.97/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $13/mo at Jammin Car Wash (Basic).
See the best-rated car washes in Lutz, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Lutz, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Lutz, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (42% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Lutz | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jammin Car Wash Basic | $13/mo |
| 2 | Infinity Custom Worx MicroFiber Towel – All Purpose | $24/mo |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97/mo |
| 4 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Lutz | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lutz Clean Car Wash Basic Wash | $6 |
| 2 | Infinity Custom Worx The Garry Dean Wash Method drying towel | $10 |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
| 4 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
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 Lutz, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Lutz have?
The format mix in Lutz 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 4.95★ (5 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.98★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 41.7% | 446 | 4.95 | 0.30% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 33.3% | 3,697 | 4.65 | 1.64% | 25.2% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 25.0% | 587 | 3.98 | 0.99% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Lutz car washes?
12 Lutz car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: -0.55 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $114K AGI/return, 4.55★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 7 | 2,432 | 4.74 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 4 | 615 | 4.02 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 1 | 1,683 | 4.60 | Express Tunnel (1) |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 1 car washes across 1 ZIPs at 4.60★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Lutz car washes?
4 chains run sites in Lutz; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 2 | 2,610 | 4.60 | 1.78% | 32.3% | 0.84% |
| 2 | Circle K | 2 | 286 | 3.75 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Jammin Carwash | 1 | 713 | 4.70 | 2.97% | — | 0.99% |
| 4 | CoaterZ | 1 | 127 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Lutz car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,898 AI-extracted reviews across 12 Lutz car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 12 car washes in Lutz, FL?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Lutz. The full set of 12 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 3893 Atmore Grove Dr | Lutz, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,683 | $159K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2209 Sun Vista Dr | Lutz, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 927 | $81K |
| Jammin Car Wash 21356 Walmart Wy | Lutz, FL | Express Tunnel | Jammin Carwash | 4.7 | 713 | $98K |
| Vortex Express Car Wash 22932 FL-54 | Lutz, FL | Express Tunnel | — | 4.9 | 374 | $98K |
| Lutz Clean Car Wash 21044 Leonard Rd | Lutz, FL | In-Bay Automatic | — | 4.2 | 301 | $139K |
| Circle K 17565 FL-54 | Lutz, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.8 | 265 | $139K |
| Brilliant Shine Auto Detailing and Ceramic Coating 22911 FL-54 | Lutz, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 143 | $98K |
| CoaterZ 16235 N Florida Ave | Lutz, FL | Detail Shop | CoaterZ | 5.0 | 127 | $98K |
| Sigma Kore Florida Ceramic Coating, PPF, Detailing & TINT 1641 Land O' Lakes Blvd #8-9 | Lutz, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 91 | $98K |
| Straight Pressure Mobile Detailing 14854 Alcorine Pl | Lutz, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 57 | $81K |
Compare Lutz to other car wash markets in the Tampa metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Lutz, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/lutz-fl
WashIndex. "Lutz, FL car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/lutz-fl.
"Lutz, FL car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 20, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/lutz-fl.
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Car wash inventory for Lutz, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Lutz, 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 Tampa MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,898 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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