Mundelein, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,478 Google reviews across 14 car washes in Mundelein. Format breakdown, operator concentration, ZIP-income overlay, customer-experience aspect signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 5
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 3.94★
- -0.47 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.3%
- 2.1× MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 50% of classified
- Median unlimited
- $35/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at Dream Clean Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 31,632
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 11,546
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,259
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.6
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 3.94★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,478 Google reviews, 583 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Mundelein, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Mundelein's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 14 locations across 5 chains and 5 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 14-location market weighs in at 3.94★; damage rate 3.3%; cancel friction 12.8%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.71/+1). 1,478 Google reviews drive the analysis, 583 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 3 of 15 Mundelein locations with menus available: median unlimited membership $35/month (range $10–$35/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $10/mo at Dream Clean Car Wash (Dream Clean Wash Package).
See the best-rated car washes in Mundelein, IL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Mundelein, IL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Mundelein, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 3 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (20% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Mundelein | ||
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| 1 | Dream Clean Car Wash Dream Clean Wash Package | $10/mo |
| 2 | VIP Shines Ceramic Coating, Paint Correction Subscription | $35/mo |
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 Mundelein, IL
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What kinds of car washes does Mundelein have?
Format counts below split Mundelein'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 4.92★ (3 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.24★ (7 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 7 | 50.0% | 275 | 3.24 | 0.00% | 33.3% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 21.4% | 236 | 4.92 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 21.4% | 815 | 3.85 | 5.29% | 11.4% |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.1% | 152 | 4.20 | 4.76% | — |
What is the typical household income near Mundelein car washes?
Each ZIP in Mundelein 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 14 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $119K AGI/return, 3.65★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 15 | 1,478 | 3.94 | In-Bay Automatic (7) |
| $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 Mundelein car washes?
5 chains alongside 5 independents make up Mundelein'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 | bp | 3 | 223 | 3.41 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Shell | 2 | 31 | 2.30 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Circle K | 2 | 21 | 2.79 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Dream Clean Car Wash | 1 | 328 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Driven Car Wash | 1 | 184 | 4.90 | 0.57% | — | 0.57% |
What do customers love and complain about at Mundelein car washes?
Seven aspects, 583 reviews, 14 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Mundelein's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 14 car washes in Mundelein, IL?
14 car washes are tracked in Mundelein; 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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| Dream Clean Car Wash 228 Oak Creek Plaza | Mundelein, IL | Express Tunnel | Dream Clean Car Wash | 3.4 | 328 | $119K |
| Atlas Car Wash 741 S Midlothian Rd | Mundelein, IL | Express Tunnel | — | 3.7 | 303 | $119K |
| Driven Car Wash 301 Townline Rd | Mundelein, IL | Express Tunnel | Driven Car Wash | 4.9 | 184 | $119K |
| Brothers Hand Car Wash 1274 Townline Rd | Mundelein, IL | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 152 | $119K |
| bp 700 US-45 | Mundelein, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.6 | 107 | $119K |
| Turbo Armory Detailing & Ceramic Coating 615 N Lake St | Mundelein, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 101 | $119K |
| bp 628 N Lake St | Mundelein, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.8 | 69 | $119K |
| bp 2029 W Maple Ave | Mundelein, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 2.4 | 47 | $119K |
| iWrapClub Chicago 19 French Ct | Mundelein, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 26 | $119K |
| OSM detailing 33 S Shaddle Ave | Mundelein, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 21 | $119K |
Compare Mundelein to other car wash markets in the Chicago 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 20). Mundelein, IL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/mundelein-il
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Car wash inventory for Mundelein, IL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Mundelein, 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 Chicago MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 583 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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