Overland Park, KS Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Kansas City, MO-KS MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Overland Park's car wash market built from 7,857 Google reviews across 24 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 24
- Chains
- 9
- lead: GO Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.33★
- -0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.7%
- 2.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 46% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 197,199
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 82,965
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,217
- 4.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 24 car wash locations operated by 9 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.33★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 7,857 Google reviews, 1,966 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
24 car wash locations in Overland Park, KS · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Overland Park sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 24 locations across 9 chains and 7 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,966 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.33★; damage 3.7%; membership-cancel friction 16.3%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.54). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Overland Park, KS
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Overland Park, KS
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Overland Park, KS worth $3.7M, at a median of $450,000 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 67% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open40% · $884K
- Acquisition20% · $1.9M
- Working capital40% · $32K
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 Overland Park, KS
How many car washes are in Overland Park, KS?
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What kinds of car washes does Overland Park have?
The format mix in Overland Park 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 4.92★ (7 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.88★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 11 | 45.8% | 5,149 | 4.27 | 5.55% | 17.8% |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 29.2% | 1,358 | 4.92 | 0.17% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 12.5% | 173 | 3.88 | 5.88% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 8.3% | 894 | 3.95 | 3.10% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 4.2% | 283 | 4.20 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Overland Park car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Overland Park tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 24 qualifying locations: 0.31 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $128K AGI/return, 4.32★.
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 | 5 | 9 | 3,335 | 4.47 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 2 | 531 | 3.91 | Full Service (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 8 | 2,601 | 4.18 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $150K+ | 4 | 5 | 1,390 | 4.46 | Detail Shop (3) |
Income band spread: 5/4.46★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Overland Park car washes?
9 chains alongside 7 independents make up Overland Park'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 | GO Car Wash | 4 | 1,967 | 4.18 | 5.81% | 16.2% | 0.76% |
| 2 | bp | 3 | 173 | 3.88 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Charlie's Car Wash | 2 | 801 | 4.26 | 5.29% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Waterway Carwash | 2 | 894 | 3.95 | 3.10% | — | 2.33% |
| 5 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 588 | 4.25 | 9.57% | 26.4% | 3.83% |
| 6 | Xcel Car Wash | 1 | 283 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Shamerrific Shine Pro Car Detailing & Ceramic Pro Coating Kansas City | 1 | 623 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 8 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 855 | 4.40 | 3.09% | — | 0.52% |
| 9 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 800 | 4.60 | 4.00% | 26.5% | 1.71% |
What do customers love and complain about at Overland Park 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 24 car washes in Overland Park, KS?
24 car washes are tracked in Overland Park; 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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| GO Car Wash 8100 Metcalf Ave | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.2 | 862 | $67K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 10600 Roe Ave | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.4 | 855 | $179K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 8710 Nieman Rd | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 800 | $72K |
| GO Car Wash 12400 Blue Valley Pkwy | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.2 | 751 | $122K |
| Shamerrific Shine Pro Car Detailing & Ceramic Pro Coating Overland Park KS 7401 Shawnee Mission Pkwy Suite A | Overland Park, KS | Detail Shop | Shamerrific Shine Pro Car Detailing & Ceramic Pro Coating Kansas City | 4.9 | 623 | $72K |
| Charlie's Car Wash 15061 Metcalf Ave | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | Charlie's Car Wash | 4.2 | 554 | $130K |
| Waterway Carwash 12100 College Blvd | Overland Park, KS | Full Service | Waterway Carwash | 3.9 | 463 | $91K |
| Waterway Carwash 8110 W 135th St | Overland Park, KS | Full Service | Waterway Carwash | 4.0 | 431 | $130K |
| Club Car Wash 8940 W 95th St | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.4 | 294 | $75K |
| Club Car Wash 7140 W 121st St | Overland Park, KS | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.1 | 294 | $122K |
Compare Overland Park to other car wash markets in the Kansas City 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). Overland Park, KS car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/overland-park-ks
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Car wash inventory for Overland Park, KS is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Overland Park, 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 Kansas City MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,966 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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