Moline, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A detailed read of the Moline car wash market built from 2,087 Google reviews across 10 locations. Covers format mix, operator dominance, geographic distribution, income demographics, and customer-experience signals at the metro, county, and ZIP level.
10 car wash locations in Moline, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Moline, IL hosts 10 car wash locations identified by the WashIndex format classifier within the broader Davenport trade area. Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,087 Google reviews, with 411 reviews processed through structured LLM extraction across 55 dimensions. The weighted-average rating across all locations is 4.11★, with a reviewer-reported damage rate of 3.41% and a membership-cancellation friction rate of 15.6% of mem-discussing reviews.
Concentration in this city: 2 of 10 locations (20.0%) operate as independents or single-location operators; the top 10 chains together control 8 locations (80.0%). The largest single operator by location count is Power Wash with 2sites in Moline.
Across all 10 locations, the dominant concept is Express Tunnel (3 sites), with secondary presence from Detail Shop (2), Full Service (0), and Self-Serve Bay (1).
Published pricing across the 4 of 10 Moline locations with menus available: median single car wash $4 (range $4–$11), median unlimited membership $27/month (range $24–$27/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $24/mo at Club Car Wash (Rookie).
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Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Moline, IL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Moline, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (40% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Moline | ||
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| 1 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24/mo |
| 2 | Power Wash Wash Only | $27/mo |
| 3 | Power Wash Wash Only - Monthly Multi-Car | $27/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Moline | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Power Wash Self Service | $4 |
| 2 | Power Wash Self Service - Cash | $4 |
| 3 | 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.
About Moline, IL
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What kinds of car washes does Moline have?
The Moline MSA contains a wide mix of car wash formats — from express tunnels and full-service operations to detail shops and self-serve bays. The bar chart below shows how many locations of each format have been formally classified by our LLM-based format classifier (which reads each operator's own website to determine the format), with the avg Google rating per format displayed alongside the count.
The format with the highest customer rating is Detail Shop at 5.00★ across 2 locations — typical of the format, which is staffed, hand-finished, and oriented toward customers who care more about wash result than throughput. The lowest-rated format is In-Bay Automatic at 3.79★ across 4 locations. Format-level rating gaps of this size are common — different formats serve different customer occasions and have inherently different expectations.
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 40.0% | 279 | 3.79 | 1.89% | 50.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 30.0% | 1,500 | 4.04 | 6.00% | 13.3% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 20.0% | 183 | 5.00 | 0.69% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 10.0% | 125 | 4.30 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Moline car washes?
Each ZIP in the Moline MSA has been joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income data (tax year 2022, mean Adjusted Gross Income per return as the income proxy) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below plots every car wash with at least 10 reviews against its ZIP-level income, with each dot colored by format and sized by review volume.
Across 10 qualifying locations the simple Pearson correlation between ZIP income and Google rating is 0.00 — effectively zero. Higher-income ZIPs in the MSA do not produce systematically better-rated car washes. Operating-quality signals are dominated by per-operator execution, not by neighborhood income. The mean-of-scatter location sits at $66K AGI/return and 4.07★.
Car wash count and quality by income tier
Grouping ZIPs by income tier shows how location count and average rating shift across the income distribution. The blue bars are location count per tier; the orange tick marks show the average Google rating across all car wash locations in that tier (scaled against the 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 | 2,087 | 4.11 | In-Bay Automatic (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs, with a weighted-average rating of 0.00★ — compared to 0 locations across 0 ZIPs averaging 0.00★ in the lowest-income tier (Under $50K). The middle-income tiers ($75K–$150K) tend to host the densest concentrations of express tunnels — the format that monetizes most effectively at suburban price points.
Who operates the most Moline car washes?
The Moline MSA hosts 6 different chains alongside 2 independent operators (single-location or unaffiliated sites). The table below ranks the top 25 chains by location count in the MSA, with each chain's per-MSA Google rating, reviewer-reported damage rate, and membership cancellation friction rate.
The top 6 chains together control 8 of 10 locations (80.0%) — meaning 20.0% of the MSA's car wash supply remains in the hands of smaller chains and independent operators. That fragmentation level is typical of large US metros and creates meaningful consolidation runway for active acquirers.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Power Wash | 2 | 252 | 3.86 | — | — | — |
| 2 | bp | 2 | 27 | 3.17 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Super Wash | 1 | 125 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Rainstorm Car Wash | 1 | 637 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Pro-Clean Car Wash Express | 1 | 579 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 284 | 4.40 | 7.62% | — | 1.90% |
What do customers love and complain about at Moline car washes?
Aspect scores aggregate the per-review LLM extractions for 411 reviews across all 10 MSA locations. Each score is computed as (positive − negative) / (positive + negative + mixed) for that aspect, ranging from −1 (universally negative) to +1 (universally positive). Numbers above zero mean customers say more positive than negative things; below zero means the reverse.
Reading these together gives a quick read on where the metro's car wash industry stands operationally: which aspects of the experience are reliable strengths and which ones generate the most friction.
Where are the 10 car washes in Moline, IL?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Moline MSA, ranked by review volume. Each row shows the operator name, address, format classification (where determined), chain affiliation (when part of a multi-location operator), Google rating, total review count, county, and the IRS mean-AGI-per-return for the ZIP it sits in. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews on Google appear without a rating column populated.
We're showing the top 10 by review volume; the full set of 10 locations is available in the underlying dataset for users requesting a custom market study.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Rainstorm Car Wash 4506 Avenue of the Cities | Moline, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 4.2 | 637 | $66K |
| Pro-Clean Car Wash & Detailing 3800 38th Ave | Moline, IL | Express Tunnel | Pro-Clean Car Wash Express | 3.7 | 579 | $66K |
| Club Car Wash 3901 41st Ave Dr | Moline, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.4 | 284 | $66K |
| Power Wash 5302 Avenue of the Cities | Moline, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Power Wash | 3.9 | 149 | $66K |
| Super Wash 1720 15th St Pl | Moline, IL | Self-Serve Bay | Super Wash | 4.3 | 125 | $66K |
| Power Wash 4307 61st St | Moline, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Power Wash | 3.8 | 103 | $66K |
| QC Shine Shop 2042 15th St | Moline, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 95 | $66K |
| Q.C Majestic Detailing 217 55th St | Moline, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 88 | $66K |
| bp 1300 41st St | Moline, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 2.9 | 15 | $66K |
| bp 2220 53rd St | Moline, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.5 | 12 | $66K |
About this analysis
Car wash inventory for Moline, IL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Moline, 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 Davenport MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 411 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.