Murfreesboro, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
27 car washes, 7 chains, 2,266 AI-extracted reviews — concentrated more than the typical US market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 27
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Take 5 Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.27★
- -0.13 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.7%
- 2.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 48% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 157,547
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 58,567
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,835
- 3.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.2
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 27 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 12 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 55.6% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Take 5 Car Wash (4 sites).
- Built from 8,999 Google reviews, 2,266 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
27 car wash locations in Murfreesboro, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
This is one of the more roll-up-shaped car wash markets in the WashIndex national index. Across 27 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 55.6% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Take 5 Car Wash the largest at 4 sites. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Average rating 4.27★ across 27 sites; damage 3.7%; cancel friction 19.8% of mem-discussing reviews. Aspect spread: Staff (0.66) on the positive side, equipment reliability (-0.67) on the friction side. Because the operator mix is concentrated, those numbers behave more like chain averages than market averages.
See the best-rated car washes in Murfreesboro, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Murfreesboro, TN
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Murfreesboro, TN worth $7.8M, at a median of $1,805,800 per car wash. About 50% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open40% · $1.4M
- Expansion / improvement60% · $2.0M
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About Murfreesboro, TN
How many car washes are in Murfreesboro, TN?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Murfreesboro, TN?
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Which car wash chains operate in Murfreesboro, TN?
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What is the median household income near Murfreesboro car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Murfreesboro, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Murfreesboro have?
In a market where 55.6% of locations sit inside a top-10 chain, the format breakdown reflects what those chains bought. Lower-throughput formats (detail shop, full service) generally cluster outside the rolled-up operator set.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.84★ (9 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.94★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 13 | 48.1% | 7,090 | 4.24 | 4.39% | 21.2% |
| Detail Shop | 9 | 33.3% | 951 | 4.84 | 0.51% | 7.1% |
| Full Service | 3 | 11.1% | 936 | 3.94 | 3.57% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 7.4% | 22 | 4.74 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Murfreesboro car washes?
27 Murfreesboro locations with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean IRS AGI. The income picture in a consolidated market mostly reflects where the dominant operators saw the strongest unit economics.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 27 qualifying locations: -0.19 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $80K AGI/return, 4.37★.
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 | 1 | 6 | 2,124 | 4.43 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 21 | 6,875 | 4.23 | Express Tunnel (11) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes in the top income tier (0.00★ avg) vs. 0 in the bottom (0.00★). Chain rollups gravitate toward middle-income suburbia — the part of the income curve where express-tunnel unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Murfreesboro car washes?
The chain rank below is the more important section of this page given Murfreesboro's consolidation. Top 10 operators control 55.6% of 27 locations, anchored by Take 5 Car Wash's 4-site footprint. Per-chain quality variance below explains most of the market-wide quality variance.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Take 5 Car Wash | 4 | 4,193 | 4.39 | 2.41% | 14.0% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Wash N Roll Car Wash | 3 | 545 | 3.17 | 11.76% | 45.3% | 14.71% |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash | 2 | 885 | 4.26 | 2.80% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 2 | 913 | 4.04 | 8.27% | 27.3% | 0.00% |
| 5 | bp | 2 | 22 | 4.74 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Smith Brothers Car Wash | 1 | 389 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 263 | 4.40 | 6.67% | — | 4.76% |
What do customers love and complain about at Murfreesboro car washes?
Staff is the strongest signal here (0.66); equipment reliability runs as the sharpest pain (-0.67). Useful as a quick check on which aspects Murfreesboro's consolidated supply does well at vs. poorly.
Where are the 27 car washes in Murfreesboro, TN?
Locations table below: ranked by review count, with format, chain affiliation, rating, and ZIP-level IRS AGI for context. In a consolidated market like Murfreesboro, the chain column is the most useful filter.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Take 5 Car Wash 3914 Cedar Glades Dr | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,275 | $79K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 1870 S Church St | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,104 | $69K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 2706 S Rutherford Blvd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.1 | 923 | $82K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 208 W Clark Blvd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 891 | $86K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 5313 Franklin Rd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.0 | 512 | $79K |
| Mister Car Wash 3320 Franklin Rd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 477 | $79K |
| Mister Car Wash 3337 Memorial Blvd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 408 | $86K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 1810 Memorial Blvd | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.1 | 401 | $86K |
| Smith Brothers Car Wash 1103 Memorial Blvd | Murfreesboro, TN | Full Service | Smith Brothers Car Wash | 4.0 | 389 | $86K |
| Splashy's Car Wash 1423 Warrior Dr | Murfreesboro, TN | Express Tunnel | — | 4.6 | 291 | $79K |
Compare Murfreesboro to other car wash markets in the Nashville metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Murfreesboro, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/murfreesboro-tn
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Car wash inventory for Murfreesboro, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Murfreesboro, 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 Nashville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,266 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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