Medford, OR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Medford, OR MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Medford's car wash market built from 3,631 Google reviews across 17 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 17
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Crater Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.53★
- +0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.0%
- 1.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 47% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$22
- Median unlimited
- $25/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at GO Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 85,794
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 34,510
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,047
- 2.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 17 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 9 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.53★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,631 Google reviews, 856 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
17 car wash locations in Medford, OR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Medford sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 17 locations across 5 chains and 9 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.53★, damage 2.0%, cancel friction 12.4%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.10). 3,631 Google reviews drive the analysis, 856 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 7 of 17 Medford locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$22), median unlimited membership $25/month (range $15–$25/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at GO Car Wash (Tier 4).
See the best-rated car washes in Medford, OR
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Medford, OR?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Medford, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 17 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (41% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Medford | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $15/mo |
| 2 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $15/mo |
| 3 | Quench & Drench Deluxe Wash | $25/mo |
| 4 | Medford Center Car Wash & Detailing Basic Unlimited | $25/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Medford | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $10 |
| 2 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $10 |
| 3 | Medford Center Car Wash & Detailing Basic Wash | $12 |
| 4 | Happy's Drive-Thru Car Wash Best Wash | $22 |
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, OR
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What kinds of car washes does Medford have?
Format counts below split Medford's 17 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 4.88★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.41★ (8 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 8 | 47.1% | 2,244 | 4.41 | 2.89% | 12.5% |
| Detail Shop | 6 | 35.3% | 491 | 4.88 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 11.8% | 433 | 4.54 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 5.9% | 463 | 4.70 | 2.17% | — |
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 17 qualifying locations: 0.09 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $68K AGI/return, 4.49★.
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 | 1 | 10 | 2,240 | 4.54 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 1,391 | 4.51 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $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 Medford car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Medford by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Crater Car Wash | 2 | 964 | 4.31 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 2 | 70 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 3 | GO Car Wash | 2 | 765 | 4.45 | 3.21% | 16.7% | 0.53% |
| 4 | Happy's Drive-Thru Car Wash | 1 | 294 | 4.80 | 1.28% | 7.3% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Shell | 1 | 18 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
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. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 17 car washes in Medford, OR?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Medford. The full set of 17 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| GO Car Wash 501 Matt Loop | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.4 | 635 | $56K |
| Crater Car Wash 3012 Crater Lake Hwy | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | Crater Car Wash | 4.4 | 545 | $87K |
| Quench & Drench 1024 S Riverside Ave | Medford, OR | Full Service | — | 4.7 | 463 | $56K |
| Crater Car Wash 1134 Court St | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | Crater Car Wash | 4.2 | 419 | $56K |
| Pennzoil 10 Minute Oil Change 3012 Crater Lake Hwy | Medford, OR | In-Bay Automatic | — | 4.6 | 415 | $87K |
| Happy's Drive-Thru Car Wash 222 Rossanley Dr | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | Happy's Drive-Thru Car Wash | 4.8 | 294 | $56K |
| Wash Buggy Auto Spa & Wrap Lab 2718 W Main St | Medford, OR | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 185 | $56K |
| Medford Center Car Wash & Detailing 775 Medford Center | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 151 | $87K |
| Shinerz Auto Detailing 2831 Bullock Rd | Medford, OR | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 134 | $87K |
| GO Car Wash 274 N Ross Ln | Medford, OR | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.7 | 130 | $56K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Medford, OR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medford-or
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Car wash inventory for Medford, OR 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 Medford MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 856 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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