Ogden, UT Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Ogden, UT MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
6,105 Google reviews across 20 car washes in Ogden. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 20
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.47★
- +0.06 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.3%
- 1.5× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 86,973
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 32,995
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,349
- 2.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 3.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 20 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 11 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.47★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 6,105 Google reviews, 1,799 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
20 car wash locations in Ogden, UT · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Ogden — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 5 chains compete alongside 11 independents — typical mix for a market of 20 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 1,799 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.47★; damage 2.3%; membership-cancel friction 10.4%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.86/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Ogden, UT
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Ogden, UT
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 11 car-wash loans in Ogden, UT worth $6.4M, at a median of $508,800 per car wash. About 64% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open64% · $509K
- Acquisition9% · $520K
- Expansion / improvement27% · $326K
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 Ogden, UT
How many car washes are in Ogden, UT?
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Which car wash chains operate in Ogden, UT?
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What is the median household income near Ogden car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Ogden, UT?
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What kinds of car washes does Ogden have?
The format mix in Ogden reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.67★ (9 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.00★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 10 | 50.0% | 4,976 | 4.45 | 2.76% | 9.6% |
| Detail Shop | 9 | 45.0% | 942 | 4.67 | 0.81% | 25.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 5.0% | 187 | 4.00 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Ogden car washes?
20 Ogden car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 20 qualifying locations: -0.09 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $72K AGI/return, 4.45★.
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 | 15 | 3,965 | 4.48 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 5 | 2,140 | 4.45 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Ogden's 20 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Ogden car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Ogden by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4 | 3,175 | 4.57 | 2.66% | 9.2% | 1.24% |
| 2 | Cliff's Self Service Wash | 2 | 495 | 4.34 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 694 | 4.20 | 4.13% | — | 0.83% |
| 4 | Dapper Pros Mobile Auto Detailing | 1 | 59 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 5 | TLC Carwash | 1 | 126 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Ogden car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 20 car washes in Ogden, UT?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Ogden 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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| Quick Quack Car Wash 699 W Riverdale Rd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,045 | $78K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 424 N Washington Blvd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 872 | $68K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1584 W 2700 N | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 845 | $68K |
| Mister Car Wash 1721 Washington Blvd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 694 | $68K |
| Quick & Clean Car Wash Ogden 122 N Washington Blvd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | — | 4.5 | 433 | $68K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 3851 Riverdale Rd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 413 | $78K |
| Attention To Detail 1285 20th St | Ogden, UT | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 295 | $69K |
| Cliff's Carwash So. Ogden 5680 Harrison Blvd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Cliff's Self Service Wash | 4.3 | 288 | $86K |
| BMR Auto Detailing and Coatings 2108 S 1100 W #1 | Ogden, UT | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 275 | $69K |
| Cliff's Car Wash Riverdale 3690 Riverdale Rd | Ogden, UT | Express Tunnel | Cliff's Self Service Wash | 4.4 | 207 | $78K |
Compare Ogden to other car wash markets in the Ogden 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). Ogden, UT car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/ogden-ut
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"Ogden, UT car wash market analysis." WashIndex, Jun. 9, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/ogden-ut.
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Car wash inventory for Ogden, UT is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Ogden, 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 Ogden MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,799 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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