New Lenox, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,351 Google reviews across 11 New Lenox car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Fuller's Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.61★
- +0.20 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.1%
- 1.4× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 64% of classified
- Median single wash
- $35
- range $35–$35
- Median unlimited
- $40/mo
- cheapest $40/mo at New Lenox Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 43,897
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 14,924
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 3,991
- 2.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 63.6% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,351 Google reviews, 348 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in New Lenox, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
New Lenox's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 63.6% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. Operating-quality signals below are best read as a study of detail shop's execution.
Headline operating signals: 4.61★ rating, 1.1% damage, 0.0% cancel friction. Aspect-level: Wash quality strong (0.93), membership value weak (0.00). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
Published pricing across the 1 of 11 New Lenox locations with menus available: median single car wash $35 (range $35–$35), median unlimited membership $40/month (range $40–$40/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $40/mo at New Lenox Car Wash (Underbody wash).
See the best-rated car washes in New Lenox, IL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in New Lenox, IL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in New Lenox, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 1 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (9% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in New Lenox | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Lenox Car Wash Underbody wash | $40/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in New Lenox | ||
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| 1 | New Lenox Car Wash Underbody wash | $35 |
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 New Lenox, IL
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What kinds of car washes does New Lenox have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, New Lenox runs as a single-format city for car washing. 63.6% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (7 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.57★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 63.6% | 864 | 4.96 | 0.36% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 27.3% | 170 | 3.57 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 9.1% | 317 | 4.20 | 13.64% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near New Lenox car washes?
11 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 63.6% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $110K 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 11 | 1,351 | 4.61 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Highest vs. lowest income tier: 0 sites/0.00★ vs. 0 sites/0.00★. Where the dominant format runs 63.6% of classified sites, the per-tier breakdown mostly reflects how that single format ranges across income levels.
Who operates the most New Lenox car washes?
3 chains compete in New Lenox, with the top names typically being heavy detail shop operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Fuller's Car Wash | 1 | 317 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Shell | 1 | 43 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 17 | 1.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at New Lenox car washes?
Aspect averages below are heavily shaped by New Lenox's dominant format. Since 63.6% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop, the aspect mix is closer to a detail shop read than to a multi-format average.
Where are the 11 car washes in New Lenox, IL?
11 locations; the most-reviewed are shown below. In a format-concentrated market, the location table is mostly a leaderboard for the dominant format's top operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Olson's Custom Detailing INC. 12546 Harvey Dr | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 479 | $110K |
| Fuller's Carwash & Detail Center 1725 E Lincoln Hwy | New Lenox, IL | Full Service | Fuller's Car Wash | 4.2 | 317 | $110K |
| Diamond Detail & Tint 1070 Star Ln | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 210 | $110K |
| New Lenox Car Wash 451 N Vine St | New Lenox, IL | In-Bay Automatic | — | 3.9 | 110 | $110K |
| PREMIER DETAILING MOBILE CAR DETAIL 501 W Maple St | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 74 | $110K |
| Shell 471 Nelson Rd | New Lenox, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.4 | 43 | $110K |
| MQ Detailing 21644 S Schoolhouse Rd | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 42 | $110K |
| Finish Line Detailing 107 W Joliet Hwy | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 38 | $110K |
| Circle K | Gas Station 471 Nelson Rd | New Lenox, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 1.9 | 17 | $110K |
| Attention To Detail Mobile Detailing, LLC 15770 Mueller Way | New Lenox, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 11 | $110K |
Compare New Lenox to other car wash markets in the Chicago metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). New Lenox, IL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/new-lenox-il
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Car wash inventory for New Lenox, IL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches New Lenox, 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 348 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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