Nashville, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
18,301 Google reviews across 40 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 40
- Chains
- 11
- lead: Wash N Roll Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.60★
- +0.19 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 45% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 684,298
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 303,539
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 17,107
- 8.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 40 car wash locations operated by 11 chains and 18 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 52.5% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Wash N Roll Car Wash (4 sites).
- Built from 18,301 Google reviews, 5,076 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
40 car wash locations in Nashville, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Among the US city markets we track, Nashville is a relatively consolidated example. Across 40 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 52.5% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Wash N Roll 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 4.60★ across 40 sites; damage 1.9%; cancel friction 23.8% of mem-discussing reviews. Equipment reliability is the sharpest friction point (-0.31). The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
See the best-rated car washes in Nashville, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Nashville, TN
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 6 car-wash loans in Nashville, TN worth $10.4M, at a median of $1,155,000 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 100% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open83% · $1.4M
- Expansion / improvement17% · $764K
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 Nashville, TN
How many car washes are in Nashville, TN?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Nashville, TN?
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Which car wash chains operate in Nashville, TN?
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What is the median household income near Nashville car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Nashville, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Nashville have?
In a market where 52.5% 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 4.90★ (17 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.34★ (18 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 18 | 45.0% | 9,567 | 4.34 | 3.28% | 23.6% |
| Detail Shop | 17 | 42.5% | 2,342 | 4.90 | 0.57% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 2 | 5.0% | 6,305 | 4.90 | 0.10% | 50.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 5.0% | 38 | 4.22 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 2.5% | 49 | 4.30 | 0.00% | 100.0% |
What is the typical household income near Nashville car washes?
In a chain-consolidated market like Nashville, ZIP-level income tells you more about where chains chose to deploy capital than about how customers actually rate the wash. Rollups tend to anchor expansion in the $75K–$150K AGI band; below that range, supply is thinner.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 40 qualifying locations: -0.10 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $99K AGI/return, 4.52★.
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 | 2 | 3 | 1,664 | 4.36 | Express Tunnel (2) |
| $50K – $75K | 4 | 20 | 6,151 | 4.50 | Detail Shop (10) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 11 | 9,656 | 4.78 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 3 | 360 | 3.80 | Express Tunnel (2) |
| $150K+ | 4 | 4 | 470 | 3.68 | Express Tunnel (2) |
Top vs. bottom tier spread: 4 sites at 3.68★ (income $150K+) vs. 3 sites at 4.36★ (income Under $50K). For Nashville's consolidated chain operators, the middle-income band is where the strongest deployment density typically sits.
Who operates the most Nashville car washes?
In Nashville, where chain share runs above the US-market median, the chain-level breakdown below is where most of the operating-quality signal sits. Wash N Roll Car Wash alone runs 4 of the metro's 40 sites; per-chain rating, damage rate, and membership-friction numbers follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Wash N Roll Car Wash | 4 | 683 | 3.02 | 6.81% | 54.6% | 12.77% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 4 | 3,024 | 4.28 | 4.12% | 9.6% | 2.32% |
| 3 | Camel Express Car Wash | 3 | 2,590 | 4.60 | 3.25% | 12.2% | 0.17% |
| 4 | The RipTide Car Wash | 2 | 349 | 4.71 | 1.05% | 24.3% | 1.39% |
| 5 | Cheetah Clean Auto Wash | 2 | 597 | 4.63 | 1.64% | 22.2% | 0.55% |
| 6 | bp | 2 | 38 | 4.22 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Champion Car Wash | 1 | 227 | 4.50 | 5.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 8 | Clean Getaway Auto Wash | 1 | 49 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Safari Car Wash | 1 | 74 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 178 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 1,919 | 4.40 | 2.19% | 17.0% | 1.18% |
What do customers love and complain about at Nashville car washes?
Staff is the strongest signal here (0.84); equipment reliability runs as the sharpest pain (-0.31). Useful as a quick check on which aspects Nashville's consolidated supply does well at vs. poorly.
Where are the 40 car washes in Nashville, TN?
Top locations by review volume in Nashville are listed below. In a consolidated market, the top of the list is typically dominated by the largest chains' anchor sites; chain affiliation is called out in the Chain column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| White Bridge Auto Wash 212 White Bridge Pike | Nashville, TN | Full Service | — | 4.9 | 6,231 | $96K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 5828 Nolensville Pk | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,919 | $63K |
| Camel Express Car Wash 3430 Doverside Dr | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Camel Express Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,074 | $54K |
| Nashville Mobile Detail 5906 Charlotte Pike suite e | Nashville, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 1,031 | $96K |
| Mister Car Wash 2130 Murfreesboro Pike | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 862 | $46K |
| Mister Car Wash 2239 Gallatin Pike N | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 789 | $50K |
| Camel Express Car Wash 335 Harding Pl | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Camel Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 774 | $63K |
| Camel Express Car Wash 2031 Ed Temple Blvd | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Camel Express Car Wash | 4.7 | 742 | $82K |
| Mister Car Wash 2831 Gallatin Pike | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 741 | $86K |
| Mister Car Wash 4024 Nolensville Rd | Nashville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 632 | $63K |
Compare Nashville 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.
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Nashville, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/nashville-tn
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Car wash inventory for Nashville, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Nashville, 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 5,076 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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