Medina, OH Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Cleveland, OH MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
Medina car wash market analysis: 14 locations, 7 chains, 3,184 customer reviews. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Solid Buy Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.63★
- +0.22 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.2%
- 1.4× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$14
- Median unlimited
- $24/mo
- cheapest $23/mo at Whistle Express Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 26,040
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 10,727
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,860
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 4.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.63★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,184 Google reviews, 953 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Medina, OH · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 14 car wash locations, Medina matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 7 chains compete alongside 6 independents — typical mix for a market of 14 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 953 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.63★, damage 2.2%, cancel friction 20.7%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.66). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 7 of 14 Medina locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$14), median unlimited membership $24/month (range $23–$28/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $23/mo at Whistle Express Car Wash (JUST THE ESSENTIALS).
See the best-rated car washes in Medina, OH
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Medina, OH?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Medina, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 14 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (50% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Medina | ||
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| 1 | Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS | $23/mo |
| 2 | Solid Buy Car Wash silver | $24/mo |
| 3 | Solid Buy Car Wash silver | $24/mo |
| 4 | Sgt. Clean Car Wash Bronze | $28/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Medina | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whistle Express Car Wash INCLUDES PROTECT | $10 |
| 2 | Serpentini Laser Wash Works Wash | $10 |
| 3 | Solid Buy Car Wash Silver | $12 |
| 4 | Solid Buy Car Wash Silver | $12 |
| 5 | Sgt. Clean Car Wash Bronze | $14 |
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 Medina, OH
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What kinds of car washes does Medina have?
Format counts below split Medina's 14 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 4.94★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.59★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 35.7% | 691 | 4.94 | 0.40% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 35.7% | 2,399 | 4.59 | 2.71% | 21.9% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 21.4% | 81 | 3.56 | 2.94% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.1% | 13 | 2.40 | 25.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Medina car washes?
14 Medina car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 14 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $99K AGI/return, 4.22★.
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 | 14 | 3,184 | 4.63 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $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 Medina's 14 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Medina car washes?
7 chains run sites in Medina; 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 | Solid Buy Car Wash | 2 | 65 | 3.67 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sgt. Clean Car Wash | 1 | 322 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Whistle Express Car Wash | 1 | 453 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 4 | ProTouch Vehicle Protection – Medina | 1 | 98 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 5 | ModWash | 1 | 1,320 | 4.80 | 2.28% | 25.9% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Ultimate Wash | 1 | 13 | 2.40 | — | — | — |
| 7 | bp | 1 | 16 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Medina car washes?
Seven aspects, 953 reviews, 14 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Medina's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 14 car washes in Medina, OH?
14 car washes are tracked in Medina; 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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| ModWash 4140 Pearl Rd | Medina, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.8 | 1,320 | $99K |
| Whistle Express Car Wash 2700 Medina Rd | Medina, OH | Express Tunnel | Whistle Express Car Wash | 4.2 | 453 | $99K |
| Showroom Solutions Plus LLC 2648 Medina Rd | Medina, OH | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 332 | $99K |
| Sgt. Clean Car Wash 969 N Court St | Medina, OH | Express Tunnel | Sgt. Clean Car Wash | 4.4 | 322 | $99K |
| Buckeye Super Wash 421 N Court St | Medina, OH | Express Tunnel | — | 4.6 | 260 | $99K |
| Nip Tuck Auto 5035 Beach Rd Unit C | Medina, OH | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 114 | $99K |
| ProTouch Vehicle Protection – Medina 705 Medina Rd | Medina, OH | Detail Shop | ProTouch Vehicle Protection – Medina | 4.9 | 98 | $99K |
| PIPS Ohio Detailing LLC 3790 Pearl Rd Unit B | Medina, OH | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 92 | $99K |
| Atomic Automotive Detailing 620 E Smith Rd Suite W-30 | Medina, OH | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 55 | $99K |
| Serpentini Laser Wash 3880 Pearl Rd | Medina, OH | Express Tunnel | — | 3.7 | 44 | $99K |
Compare Medina to other car wash markets in the Cleveland 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). Medina, OH car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medina-oh
WashIndex. "Medina, OH car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medina-oh.
"Medina, OH car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/medina-oh.
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Car wash inventory for Medina, OH is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Medina, 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 Cleveland MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 953 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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