Morgantown, WV Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Morgantown, WV MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Morgantown's car wash market built from 1,590 Google reviews across 12 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Ultimate Shine Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.29★
- -0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 5.9%
- 3.8× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 30,273
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 12,119
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,523
- 1.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 5.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.29★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,590 Google reviews, 730 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Morgantown, WV · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Morgantown sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 12 locations across 3 chains and 7 independents. Customer-experience signals across 730 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 12-location market weighs in at 4.29★; damage rate 5.9%; cancel friction 23.5%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (1.00/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Morgantown, WV
Ranked by Google review rating
About Morgantown, WV
How many car washes are in Morgantown, WV?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Morgantown, WV?
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Which car wash chains operate in Morgantown, WV?
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What is the median household income near Morgantown car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Morgantown, WV?
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What kinds of car washes does Morgantown 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. Morgantown's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.86★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.86★ (6 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 50.0% | 684 | 4.86 | 2.11% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 50.0% | 906 | 3.86 | 7.71% | 23.5% |
What is the typical household income near Morgantown car washes?
Each ZIP in Morgantown 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 12 qualifying locations: 0.58 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $85K AGI/return, 4.23★.
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 | 2 | 8 | 1,026 | 4.00 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 4 | 564 | 4.83 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Morgantown car washes?
3 chains alongside 7 independents make up Morgantown'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 | Ultimate Shine Car Wash | 3 | 167 | 3.17 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mr. Magic Car Wash - Bethel Park | 1 | 134 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 290 | 4.30 | 7.87% | 16.3% | 0.46% |
What do customers love and complain about at Morgantown car washes?
Seven aspects, 730 reviews, 12 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Morgantown's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 12 car washes in Morgantown, WV?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Morgantown market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Mr. Magic Car Wash 3 Chaplin Hl Rd | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | — | 3.9 | 315 | $71K |
| Magic Shine Auto Spa – Detailing • Tint • Ceramics • PPF • Wraps 1063 Green Bag Road suite e | Morgantown, WV | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 310 | $110K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 53 Red Dog Way | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.3 | 290 | $71K |
| Ziebart 500 Fort Pierpont Dr | Morgantown, WV | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 155 | $110K |
| Mr. Magic Car Wash 767 Chestnut Ridge Rd | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | Mr. Magic Car Wash - Bethel Park | 3.7 | 134 | $73K |
| Full Throttle Auto & Aviation Spa 130 Jetliner Ave | Morgantown, WV | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 97 | $73K |
| Stingray Auto Detailing 5 Ridgeview Ln | Morgantown, WV | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 82 | $110K |
| Mileground Car Wash 1738 Mileground Rd | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | Ultimate Shine Car Wash | 3.1 | 66 | $73K |
| Ultimate Shine Car Wash 355 Sesame Dr | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | Ultimate Shine Car Wash | 3.3 | 56 | $71K |
| Ultimate Shine Car Wash 1747 Mileground Rd | Morgantown, WV | Express Tunnel | Ultimate Shine Car Wash | 3.1 | 45 | $73K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Morgantown, WV car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/morgantown-wv
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Car wash inventory for Morgantown, WV is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Morgantown, 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 Morgantown MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 730 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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