Manteca, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Stockton-Lodi, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
3,899 Google reviews across 9 car washes in Manteca. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.51★
- +0.10 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 44% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$10
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 86,521
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 26,926
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 9,613
- 5.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.51★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,899 Google reviews, 1,505 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Manteca, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Manteca's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 9 locations across 2 chains and 5 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,505 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 9-location market weighs in at 4.51★; damage rate 1.9%; cancel friction 7.7%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.92/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 5 of 10 Manteca locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$10), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $22.99–$24.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the best-rated car washes in Manteca, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Manteca, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Manteca, 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 Manteca | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 4 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Manteca | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | 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 Manteca, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Manteca 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. Manteca's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.84★ (3 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.80★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 3 | 33.3% | 326 | 4.84 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 44.4% | 3,231 | 4.54 | 2.03% | 7.8% |
| Full Service | 1 | 11.1% | 37 | 4.90 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 11.1% | 305 | 3.80 | 11.11% | — |
What is the typical household income near Manteca car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Manteca tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.10 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $79K AGI/return, 4.61★.
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 | 2 | 10 | 3,899 | 4.51 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Manteca car washes?
2 chains run sites in Manteca; 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 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 2 | 1,746 | 4.80 | 1.73% | 8.3% | 1.99% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 2 | 1,485 | 4.24 | 4.96% | — | 0.83% |
What do customers love and complain about at Manteca car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,505 AI-extracted reviews across 9 Manteca 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 Manteca, CA?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Manteca 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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| Quick Quack Car Wash 2183 W Atherton Dr | Manteca, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,034 | $84K |
| Mister Car Wash 1050 S Airport Way | Manteca, CA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 961 | $84K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1350 Phoenix Dr | Manteca, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 712 | $76K |
| Mister Car Wash 1115 W Lathrop Rd | Manteca, CA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 524 | $76K |
| Dribbles Car Wash 780 N Main St | Manteca, CA | Self-Serve Bay | — | 3.8 | 305 | $76K |
| T1Detailing 588 Commerce Ct | Manteca, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 110 | $76K |
| Limitless Auto Spa 194 Button Ave | Manteca, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 66 | $76K |
| Splash Car Wash & Detail 1810 E Yosemite Ave | Manteca, CA | Full Service | — | 4.9 | 37 | $76K |
| Sleek Mobile Detailing & Ceramic Coatings 1015 Maggiore Ln | Manteca, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 11 | $84K |
Compare Manteca to other car wash markets in the Stockton metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
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WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Manteca, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/manteca-ca
WashIndex. "Manteca, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/manteca-ca.
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Car wash inventory for Manteca, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Manteca, 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 Stockton MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,505 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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