McKinney, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
17,801 Google reviews across 30 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 30
- Chains
- 10
- lead: Take 5 Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.49★
- +0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 40% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $9.99–$49.99
- Median unlimited
- $23/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at Duarte Auto Detail
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 202,314
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 70,787
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,744
- 3.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 30 car wash locations operated by 10 chains and 15 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 50.0% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Take 5 Car Wash (3 sites).
- Built from 17,801 Google reviews, 7,414 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
30 car wash locations in McKinney, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
McKinney stands out for how much chain rollup has reshaped supply. Across 30 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 50.0% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Take 5 Car Wash the largest at 3 sites. The headline averages below behave like chain averages — the per-chain table is the right cut to read.
Operating-quality aggregates: rating 4.49★, damage 1.6%, membership-cancel friction 16.5%. Aspect spread: Facility cleanliness (0.84) on the positive side, equipment reliability (-0.15) on the friction side. Because the operator mix is concentrated, those numbers behave more like chain averages than market averages.
Published pricing across the 18 of 30 McKinney locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $9.99–$49.99), median unlimited membership $23/month (range $10–$69/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $10/mo at Duarte Auto Detail (Everything in Entrepreneur Plan +).
See the best-rated car washes in McKinney, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in McKinney, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in McKinney, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 18 of 30 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (60% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in McKinney | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duarte Auto Detail Everything in Entrepreneur Plan + | $10/mo |
| 2 | Vibe Car Wash Basic | $19.99/mo |
| 3 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $20/mo |
| 4 | Zips Car Wash BASIC | $20/mo |
| 5 | ClearWater Express Wash Wash & Wheels | $21.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in McKinney | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scooter's Car & Dog Wash SCOOTER’S QUICK SCOOT | $9.99 |
| 2 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $11 |
| 3 | Carnation Auto Spa - McKinney Basic | $11 |
| 4 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $11 |
| 5 | Club Car Wash ROOKIE | $11 |
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 McKinney, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 15 car-wash loans in McKinney, TX worth $45.3M, at a median of $2,590,000 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 57% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open53% · $4.4M
- Acquisition7% · $4.5M
- Expansion / improvement33% · $1.9M
- Working capital7% · $25K
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 McKinney, TX
How many car washes are in McKinney, TX?
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What is the best-rated car wash in McKinney, TX?
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Which car wash chains operate in McKinney, TX?
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What is the median household income near McKinney car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in McKinney, TX?
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How much does a car wash cost in McKinney, TX?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in McKinney, TX?
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What is the cheapest car wash in McKinney, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does McKinney have?
In a market where 50.0% of locations sit inside a top-10 chain, the format breakdown reflects what those chains bought. Lower-throughput formats (detail shop, full service) generally cluster outside the rolled-up operator set.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (10 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.32★ (8 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 12 | 40.0% | 10,591 | 4.55 | 1.53% | 14.2% |
| Detail Shop | 10 | 33.3% | 961 | 4.96 | 0.22% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 8 | 26.7% | 6,249 | 4.32 | 2.06% | 24.7% |
What is the typical household income near McKinney car washes?
28 McKinney locations with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean IRS AGI. The income picture in a consolidated market mostly reflects where the dominant operators saw the strongest unit economics.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 28 qualifying locations: 0.27 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $119K AGI/return, 4.64★.
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 | 3 | 28 | 16,262 | 4.50 | Express Tunnel (11) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 0 across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★. In a chain-consolidated market like McKinney, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most McKinney car washes?
The chain rank below is the more important section of this page given McKinney's consolidation. Top 10 operators control 50.0% of 30 locations, anchored by Take 5 Car Wash's 3-site footprint. Per-chain quality variance below explains most of the market-wide quality variance.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Take 5 Car Wash | 3 | 6,034 | 4.47 | 1.31% | 19.4% | 1.43% |
| 2 | Carnation Auto Spa | 3 | 2,626 | 4.56 | 1.00% | 18.8% | 0.67% |
| 3 | Zips Car Wash | 2 | 1,231 | 4.39 | 1.45% | 10.7% | 0.83% |
| 4 | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 1 | 956 | 4.30 | 2.40% | 46.2% | 1.53% |
| 5 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 129 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Snap Clean Carwash | 1 | 58 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Qwikwash America | 1 | 805 | 3.60 | 8.82% | — | 2.21% |
| 8 | Clean Car Wash | 1 | 450 | 4.70 | 2.15% | 8.0% | 0.00% |
| 9 | ClearWater Express Wash | 1 | 1,067 | 4.90 | 0.62% | 6.8% | 0.12% |
| 10 | Vibe Car Wash | 1 | 1,260 | 4.80 | 1.79% | 15.1% | 0.60% |
What do customers love and complain about at McKinney car washes?
Aspect scores below aggregate the LLM extractions across all 30 locations in McKinney. In a consolidated market, these aggregates skew toward the dominant chains' operating signatures — read alongside the chain rank above.
Where are the 30 car washes in McKinney, TX?
Locations table below: ranked by review count, with format, chain affiliation, rating, and ZIP-level IRS AGI for context. In a consolidated market like McKinney, the chain column is the most useful filter.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Take 5 Car Wash 3086 W University Dr | McKinney, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.3 | 2,502 | $125K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 1850 N Custer Rd | McKinney, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,925 | $125K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 4950 McKinney Ranch Pkwy | McKinney, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,607 | $113K |
| Vibe Car Wash 3745 Virginia Pkwy | McKinney, TX | Express Tunnel | Vibe Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,260 | $113K |
| Parkway Auto Spa & Detail Center 3850 Eldorado Pkwy | McKinney, TX | Full Service | — | 4.3 | 1,136 | $113K |
| Carnation Auto Spa 6501 Eldorado Pkwy | McKinney, TX | Full Service | Carnation Auto Spa | 4.6 | 1,080 | $113K |
| ClearWater Express Wash 5271 W University Dr | McKinney, TX | Express Tunnel | ClearWater Express Wash | 4.9 | 1,067 | $125K |
| WASHGUYS Car Wash 7249 S Custer Rd | McKinney, TX | Full Service | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 4.3 | 956 | $113K |
| Carnation Auto Spa - McKinney 290 S Custer Rd | McKinney, TX | Full Service | Carnation Auto Spa | 4.4 | 848 | — |
| Qwikwash America 1901 N Central Expy | McKinney, TX | Full Service | Qwikwash America | 3.6 | 805 | $113K |
Compare McKinney to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth 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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Car wash inventory for McKinney, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches McKinney, 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 7,414 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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