Palm Coast, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,926 Google reviews across 9 Palm Coast car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 3
- lead: bp (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.27★
- -0.14 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.8%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 56% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $6–$10
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at JP car detailing
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 94,362
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 38,257
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 10,485
- 5.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 5 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 55.6% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,926 Google reviews, 1,020 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Palm Coast, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Palm Coast's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 55.6% 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.
Average rating 4.27★; damage 1.8%; detail shop averages 4.97★. Equipment reliability runs as the friction point (-0.41). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
Published pricing across the 3 of 9 Palm Coast locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $6–$10), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $15–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at JP car detailing (Pro).
See the best-rated car washes in Palm Coast, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Palm Coast, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Palm Coast, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 3 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (33% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Palm Coast | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JP car detailing Pro | $15/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Palm Coast | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JP car detailing Starter | $6 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
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 Palm Coast, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Palm Coast have?
Detail shop dominates Palm Coast — 55.6% of formally-classified locations. The table below shows how the long tail breaks down: typically a thin layer of full-service, detail-shop, or self-serve operators serving a different occasion than the dominant format.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.97★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.23★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 55.6% | 244 | 4.97 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 22.2% | 2,616 | 4.23 | 2.21% | 19.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 22.2% | 66 | 3.53 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Palm Coast car washes?
Because Palm Coast is detail shop-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.16 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $89K AGI/return, 4.42★.
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 | 4 | 804 | 3.60 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 5 | 2,122 | 4.53 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Palm Coast's detail shop skew means the income mix reads less as "which formats serve which neighborhoods" and more as "where this one format reaches its limits".
Who operates the most Palm Coast car washes?
In Palm Coast, the chain rank below is closely tied to format dominance — the largest operators tend to be the ones that built out the dominant detail shop at scale. Per-chain quality numbers help separate format-correlated signal from operator-correlated signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 2 | 66 | 3.53 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 714 | 3.50 | 3.49% | 26.4% | 5.43% |
| 3 | LUV Car Wash | 1 | 1,902 | 4.50 | 1.61% | 11.4% | 0.36% |
What do customers love and complain about at Palm Coast car washes?
1,020 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. detail shop's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are the 9 car washes in Palm Coast, FL?
Top locations by review count in Palm Coast. With 55.6% of classified sites running as detail shop, the format column below reads consistently rather than varying across the list.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| LUV Car Wash 6030 Old Kings Rd | Palm Coast, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,902 | $113K |
| Mister Car Wash 110 Cypress Point Pkwy | Palm Coast, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.5 | 714 | $59K |
| Christal Clean Detailing 4500 US-1 #106a | Palm Coast, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 112 | $113K |
| KINGS AUTOMOTIVE DETAILING 24 Hargrove Grde unit 5 | Palm Coast, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 73 | $113K |
| Amoco 5935 FL-100 | Palm Coast, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.7 | 44 | $59K |
| JP car detailing 160 Cypress Point Pkwy | Palm Coast, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 28 | $59K |
| Amoco 101 Matanzas Woods Pkwy | Palm Coast, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.2 | 22 | $113K |
| 1ST N LINE COMPLETE MOBILE DETAILING 6 Ricker Pl | Palm Coast, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 18 | $59K |
| First Coast Details 15 Coral Reef Ct S | Palm Coast, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 13 | $113K |
Compare Palm Coast to other car wash markets in the Deltona 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 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Palm Coast, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/palm-coast-fl
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Car wash inventory for Palm Coast, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Palm Coast, 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 Deltona MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,020 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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