Mansfield, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Mansfield's car wash market built from 3,888 Google reviews across 9 locations. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Blue Shark Car Wash - Allen (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.18★
- -0.23 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.9%
- 1.9× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 44% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $10–$12
- Median unlimited
- $23/mo
- cheapest $20/mo at Zips Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 75,398
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 24,796
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,378
- 4.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.8
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.18★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,888 Google reviews, 1,162 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Mansfield, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Mansfield — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 9 locations across 5 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.18★, damage 2.9%, cancel friction 14.7%. Staff strong (0.74); equipment reliability weak (-0.60). 3,888 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,162 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 9 Mansfield locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $10–$12), median unlimited membership $23/month (range $20–$23/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $20/mo at Zips Car Wash (BASIC).
See the best-rated car washes in Mansfield, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Mansfield, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Mansfield, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (44% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Mansfield | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $20/mo |
| 2 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $23/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Mansfield | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clean Getaway Car Wash - Broad Street Dust Buster | $10 |
| 2 | Blue Shark Car Wash - Mansfield Basic Wash | $10 |
| 3 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $11 |
| 4 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $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.
Car wash financing in Mansfield, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Mansfield, TX worth $11.5M, at a median of $1,405,000 per car wash. About 0% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- Acquisition20% · $4.7M
- Expansion / improvement80% · $1.2M
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 Mansfield, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Mansfield have?
Format counts below split Mansfield's 9 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.66★ (4 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.95★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 44.4% | 334 | 4.66 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 22.2% | 1,859 | 3.95 | 2.74% | 14.8% |
| Full Service | 2 | 22.2% | 1,667 | 4.35 | 4.49% | 15.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 11.1% | 28 | 3.90 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Mansfield car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Mansfield tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $104K AGI/return, 4.33★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 9 | 3,888 | 4.18 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Mansfield's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Mansfield car washes?
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Shark Car Wash - Allen | 1 | 458 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 1,401 | 4.00 | 2.90% | 14.4% | 3.13% |
| 3 | Jax Wax DFW | 1 | 66 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Carnation Auto Spa | 1 | 859 | 4.50 | 2.63% | 16.7% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Conoco | 1 | 28 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Mansfield car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,162 AI-extracted reviews across 9 Mansfield car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 9 car washes in Mansfield, TX?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Mansfield market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Zips Car Wash 701 W Debbie Ln | Mansfield, TX | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.0 | 1,401 | $104K |
| Carnation Auto Spa 3191 Matlock Rd | Mansfield, TX | Full Service | Carnation Auto Spa | 4.5 | 859 | $104K |
| Clean Getaway Car Wash - Broad Street 3201 E Broad St | Mansfield, TX | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 808 | $104K |
| Blue Shark Car Wash - Mansfield 1955 FM157 | Mansfield, TX | Express Tunnel | Blue Shark Car Wash - Allen | 3.8 | 458 | $104K |
| Premium Mobile Detailing & Home Services 404 Sierra Ave | Mansfield, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 141 | $104K |
| Autobahn Mobile Detailing & Carpet Steam Cleaning (Auto, RV, Boats) 1560 E Broad St | Mansfield, TX | Detail Shop | — | 3.7 | 83 | $104K |
| Jax Wax DFW 1509 FM157 suite 105 | Mansfield, TX | Detail Shop | Jax Wax DFW | 4.9 | 66 | $104K |
| IPDR HAIL AND DENT REPAIR 2433 S 2nd Ave suite 400 | Mansfield, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 44 | $104K |
| Conoco 1721 FM157 | Mansfield, TX | In-Bay Automatic | Conoco | 3.9 | 28 | $104K |
Compare Mansfield to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Mansfield, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/mansfield-tx
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Car wash inventory for Mansfield, TX 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,162 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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