Moline, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,087 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Moline. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Power Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.11★
- -0.30 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.4%
- 2.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 40% of classified
- Median single wash
- $4
- range $4–$11
- Median unlimited
- $27/mo
- cheapest $24/mo at Club Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 42,235
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 18,135
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,224
- 2.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 2 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.11★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,087 Google reviews, 411 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Moline, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 10 car wash locations, Moline matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 10 locations across 6 chains and 2 independents. Customer-experience signals across 411 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.11★; damage 3.4%; membership-cancel friction 15.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.51). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
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).
See the best-rated car washes in Moline, IL
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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?
Format counts below split Moline's 10 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 5.00★ (2 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.79★ (4 locations).
| 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?
10 Moline 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 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $66K AGI/return, 4.07★.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
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 Moline car washes?
6 chains alongside 2 independents make up Moline'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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?
The aspect grid below summarizes 411 AI-extracted reviews across 10 Moline car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 10 car washes in Moline, IL?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Moline. The full set of 10 is available in the underlying dataset.
| 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 |
Compare Moline to other car wash markets in the Davenport 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). Moline, IL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/moline-il
WashIndex. "Moline, IL car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/moline-il.
"Moline, IL car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/moline-il.
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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. Term definitions in the glossary.
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