Medford, NY Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
8 sites, 1 chains, 2,314 reviews — the Medford car wash market. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 8
- Chains
- 1
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.69★
- +0.28 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.3%
- 5.1× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $45
- range $6–$45
- Median unlimited
- $15/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at Lambo’s Detailing
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 25,681
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 8,074
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 3,210
- 1.7× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Key findings
- 8 car wash locations operated by 1 chain and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.69★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,314 Google reviews, 650 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
8 car wash locations in Medford, NY · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Medford reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 8 locations across 1 chains and 5 independents. Customer-experience signals across 650 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.69★; damage 0.3%; membership-cancel friction 0.0%. Membership value runs as the sharpest friction (0.50). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 2 of 10 Medford locations with menus available: median single car wash $45 (range $6–$45), median unlimited membership $15/month (range $15–$15/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at Lambo’s Detailing (Pro).
See the best-rated car washes in Medford, NY
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Medford, NY?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Medford, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (20% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Medford | ||
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| 1 | Lambo’s Detailing Pro | $15/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Medford | ||
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| 1 | Lambo’s Detailing Starter | $6 |
| 2 | Auto Salon Detail Center Wash - Sedan | $45 |
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 Medford, NY
How many car washes are in Medford, NY?
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What kinds of car washes does Medford 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. Medford's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 50.0% | 2,198 | 4.72 | 0.16% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 37.5% | 86 | 4.02 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 12.5% | 30 | 4.10 | 4.76% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Medford car washes?
Each ZIP in Medford is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 8 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $77K 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 10 | 2,314 | 4.69 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Medford's 8 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Medford car washes?
1 chains alongside 5 independents make up Medford's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 3 | 86 | 4.02 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Medford car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. equipment reliability is the brightest spot here. membership value is the pain point.
Where are the 8 car washes in Medford, NY?
8 car washes are tracked in Medford; 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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| ShineTek Auto Spa | Window Tinting | Paint Protection 765 Long Island Ave Ste. 13 | Medford, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 1,056 | $77K |
| S-Class Detail & 100% Hand Car Wash 2636 NY-112 | Medford, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 278 | $77K |
| Auto Salon Detail Center 2906 NY-112 | Medford, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 154 | $77K |
| Lambo’s Detailing 995 N Ocean Ave | Medford, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 111 | $77K |
| bp 1614 NY-112 | Medford, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 34 | $77K |
| bp 2665 NY-112 | Medford, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 31 | $77K |
| 112 CARWASH 1790 NY-112 | Medford, NY | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 30 | $77K |
| bp 3417 Rte 112 | Medford, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.1 | 21 | $77K |
Compare Medford to other car wash markets in the New York metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-05-20. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Medford, NY car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medford-ny
WashIndex. "Medford, NY car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medford-ny.
"Medford, NY car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 20, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medford-ny.
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Car wash inventory for Medford, NY is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Medford, 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 New York MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 650 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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