Mansfield, OH Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Mansfield, OH MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
Mansfield car wash market analysis: 10 locations, 4 chains, 1,051 customer reviews. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Buckeye Express Car Wash - Marion (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $12–$12
- Median unlimited
- $15/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 1
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 47,686
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 19,129
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,769
- 2.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.6
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.66★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,051 Google reviews, 420 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Mansfield, OH · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Mansfield's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 10 locations across 4 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.66★; damage 1.9%; membership-cancel friction 14.0%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (1.00/+1). 1,051 Google reviews drive the analysis, 420 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 5 of 10 Mansfield locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $12–$12), median unlimited membership $15/month (range $15–$24/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 1 (Bronze).
See the best-rated car washes in Mansfield, OH
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Mansfield, OH?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Mansfield, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (50% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Mansfield | ||
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| 1 | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 1 Bronze | $15/mo |
| 2 | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Lexington Bronze | $15/mo |
| 3 | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 2 Bronze | $15/mo |
| 4 | Solid Buy Car Wash silver | $24/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Mansfield | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solid Buy Car Wash Silver | $12 |
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 Mansfield, OH
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What kinds of car washes does Mansfield have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Mansfield's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.89★ (3 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.58★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 50.0% | 593 | 4.58 | 2.31% | 14.3% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 30.0% | 415 | 4.89 | 1.36% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 20.0% | 43 | 3.65 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Mansfield car washes?
10 Mansfield 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 10 qualifying locations: 0.22 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $57K AGI/return, 4.46★.
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 | 2 | 112 | 4.30 | In-Bay Automatic (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 3 | 8 | 939 | 4.71 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 2 sites across 2 ZIPs at 4.30★ 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 Mansfield car washes?
4 chains run sites in Mansfield; 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 |
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| 1 | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Marion | 3 | 246 | 4.43 | 2.61% | 15.6% | 0.00% |
| 2 | Solid Buy Car Wash | 1 | 15 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Liberty Car Wash | 1 | 81 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | MotoMart Convenience Stores | 1 | 28 | 3.30 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Mansfield car washes?
Seven aspects, 420 reviews, 10 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Mansfield's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 10 car washes in Mansfield, OH?
10 car washes are tracked in Mansfield; 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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| Hercules Express Wash 1401 Lexington Ave | Mansfield, OH | Express Tunnel | — | 4.9 | 266 | $60K |
| Osgar's Auto Body 552 Oak St | Mansfield, OH | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 236 | $51K |
| Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 1 633 N Stewart Rd | Mansfield, OH | Express Tunnel | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Marion | 4.3 | 97 | $46K |
| Premier Detailing Services LLC 438 Walfield Dr | Mansfield, OH | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 90 | $71K |
| Greg's Detail Service 1664 Pin Oak Trail | Mansfield, OH | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 89 | $60K |
| Buckeye Express Car Wash - Lexington 355 E Main St | Mansfield, OH | Express Tunnel | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Marion | 4.7 | 82 | $71K |
| Liberty Car Wash 1470 Lexington Ave | Mansfield, OH | Express Tunnel | Liberty Car Wash | 4.0 | 81 | $60K |
| Buckeye Express Car Wash - Mansfield 2 381 Park Ave W | Mansfield, OH | Express Tunnel | Buckeye Express Car Wash - Marion | 4.3 | 67 | $60K |
| MotoMart Convenience Stores 1050 W 4th St | Mansfield, OH | In-Bay Automatic | MotoMart Convenience Stores | 3.3 | 28 | $60K |
| Solid Buy Car Wash 102 S Main St | Mansfield, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Solid Buy Car Wash | 4.3 | 15 | $30K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Mansfield, OH car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/mansfield-oh
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Car wash inventory for Mansfield, OH is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Mansfield, 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 Mansfield MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 420 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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