Macon, GA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Macon-Bibb County, GA MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
6,980 reviews across 19 Macon car washes — operating-quality signals run below norm here. Damage-rate breakdown by operator + format, per-aspect customer reads, per-location detail.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 19
- Chains
- 7
- lead: FoamWorks Auto Spa of Cordele (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.67★
- +0.26 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.8%
- 2.0× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 42% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 156,543
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 59,681
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,239
- 4.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 19 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 8 independents.
- Reviewer-reported damage rate of 0.8% runs 2.0× below the 1.6% US-market median.
- Built from 6,980 Google reviews, 3,101 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
19 car wash locations in Macon, GA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Macon stands out for operational-quality signals that are below the typical US market norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 0.8% across 19 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. That spread is the most distinctive read this market produces.
Average rating 4.67★ (above 4.41★ peer median); cancel friction 14.1%. Equipment reliability runs at -0.42 — the sharpest pain point measurable from these reviews. Per-location breakdown shows which specific sites pull the metro-wide damage rate in either direction.
See the best-rated car washes in Macon, GA
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Macon, GA
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 7 car-wash loans in Macon, GA worth $14.0M, at a median of $1,567,000 per car wash. About 60% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open43% · $1.4M
- Expansion / improvement57% · $1.8M
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 Macon, GA
How many car washes are in Macon, GA?
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What kinds of car washes does Macon have?
Format counts below show how Macon stacks formats. In quality-outlier markets, the more interesting cut is usually the damage-rate column rather than the count column — that's where the operating story shows up.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.73★ (8 locations). Lowest: Detail Shop at 4.11★ (7 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 8 | 42.1% | 6,252 | 4.73 | 0.82% | 14.1% |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 36.8% | 593 | 4.11 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 15.8% | 52 | 4.00 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 5.3% | 83 | 4.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Macon car washes?
Income-vs-rating is the most useful structural-context cut for Macon's elevated quality signal: it lets you see whether the damage/quality outlier is income-correlated or operator-correlated.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 19 qualifying locations: 0.38 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $74K AGI/return, 4.41★.
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 | 2 | 5 | 2,021 | 4.42 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $50K – $75K | 3 | 6 | 887 | 4.40 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 1 | 459 | 4.80 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 7 | 3,613 | 4.86 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier: 0 sites, 0.00★ avg. Bottom tier: 5 sites, 4.42★. Whether Macon's elevated quality signal concentrates in a specific income band or runs market-wide is visible in the rating column below.
Who operates the most Macon car washes?
7 chains operate in Macon. With damage running at 0.8% (vs. 1.6% peer median), the chain-by-chain damage column below shows you which operators are driving the outlier signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FoamWorks Auto Spa of Cordele | 3 | 1,578 | 4.67 | 1.23% | 26.4% | 0.00% |
| 2 | bp | 3 | 52 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Crystal Clean Auto Spa | 1 | 46 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 534 | 4.60 | 2.50% | — | 0.83% |
| 5 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 699 | 4.40 | 4.27% | 0.0% | 0.47% |
| 6 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 981 | 4.50 | 0.71% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | Big Peach Car Wash | 1 | 2,414 | 5.00 | 0.06% | 1.9% | 0.06% |
What do customers love and complain about at Macon car washes?
The aspect grid below is where Macon's quality-outlier signal decomposes into specific friction points. Each aspect score is (positive − negative) / total, ranging -1…+1.
Where are the 19 car washes in Macon, GA?
19 sites in Macon; the top of the list below by review volume. Read alongside the elevated damage and quality signals above — the highest-volume sites usually anchor the metro-wide numbers.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Big Peach Car Wash 4461 Napier Ave | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | Big Peach Car Wash | 5.0 | 2,414 | $112K |
| GooGoo Car Wash 4600 Presidential Pkwy | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 981 | $29K |
| FoamWorks Auto Spa of Hartley Bridge Macon 4701 Hartley Bridge Rd | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | FoamWorks Auto Spa of Cordele | 4.5 | 708 | $63K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 2772 Riverside Dr | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.4 | 699 | $47K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 6700 Peake Rd | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 534 | $112K |
| FoamWorks Auto Spa of Thomaston Rd Macon 5551 Thomaston Rd | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | FoamWorks Auto Spa of Cordele | 4.8 | 459 | $80K |
| FoamWorks Auto Spa of Riverside 4780 Riverside Dr | Macon, GA | Express Tunnel | FoamWorks Auto Spa of Cordele | 4.8 | 411 | $112K |
| Supa Suds Car Wash 1521 Forest Hill Rd | Macon, GA | Detail Shop | — | 3.9 | 147 | $112K |
| Truck Wash Of Macon Broadway 4553 Broadway | Macon, GA | Detail Shop | — | 4.4 | 144 | $29K |
| Supa Suds Car Wash 590 Pio Nono Ave | Macon, GA | Detail Shop | — | 3.7 | 114 | $47K |
Data as of 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Macon, GA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/macon-ga
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"Macon, GA car wash market analysis." WashIndex, Jun. 9, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/macon-ga.
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Car wash inventory for Macon, GA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Macon, 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 Macon MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,101 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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