Pasco, WA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Kennewick-Richland, WA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
1,477 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Pasco. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Circle K (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.14★
- -0.27 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.6%
- 1.7× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 30% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $6–$10
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at SurgeDetails
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 78,446
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 23,956
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,845
- 4.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.14★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,477 Google reviews, 455 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Pasco, WA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Pasco — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 10 locations across 3 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.14★; damage 2.6%; membership-cancel friction 11.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.60). 1,477 Google reviews drive the analysis, 455 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 10 Pasco 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 SurgeDetails (Pro).
See the best-rated car washes in Pasco, WA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Pasco, WA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Pasco, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (40% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Pasco | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SurgeDetails Pro | $15/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Pasco | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SurgeDetails Starter | $6 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | 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 Pasco, WA
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What kinds of car washes does Pasco have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Pasco's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 5.00★ (3 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 2.90★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 3 | 30.0% | 180 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 30.0% | 109 | 2.90 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 30.0% | 933 | 4.10 | 4.40% | 11.6% |
| Full Service | 1 | 10.0% | 255 | 4.20 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Pasco car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Pasco tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $71K AGI/return, 3.98★.
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 | 10 | 1,477 | 4.14 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Pasco car washes?
3 chains run sites in Pasco; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Circle K | 3 | 109 | 2.90 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 2 | 876 | 4.14 | 4.48% | 9.1% | 0.45% |
| 3 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 1 | 57 | 3.60 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Pasco 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 10 car washes in Pasco, WA?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Pasco 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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| Mister Car Wash 7200 Burden Blvd (Rd, Rd 68 | Pasco, WA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 561 | $71K |
| Mister Car Wash 3810 W Court St | Pasco, WA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 315 | $71K |
| Blue Banner Truck Wash Tire & Lube 3604 N Commercial Ave | Pasco, WA | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 255 | $71K |
| Signature Auto Detailing 436 N Owen Ave | Pasco, WA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 123 | $71K |
| Surf Thru Express Car Wash 4621 Convention Pl | Pasco, WA | Express Tunnel | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 3.6 | 57 | $71K |
| Meraki | Modify. Restyle. Protect. 171 Richview Dr | Pasco, WA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 43 | $71K |
| Circle K 4823 Broadmoor Blvd | Pasco, WA | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.7 | 42 | $71K |
| Circle K 2305 W Argent Rd | Pasco, WA | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.3 | 36 | $71K |
| Circle K 4805 Rd 68 | Pasco, WA | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.7 | 31 | $71K |
| SurgeDetails 6419 Robinson Dr | Pasco, WA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 14 | $71K |
Compare Pasco to other car wash markets in the Kennewick 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, May 22). Pasco, WA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/pasco-wa
WashIndex. "Pasco, WA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/pasco-wa.
"Pasco, WA car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/pasco-wa.
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Car wash inventory for Pasco, WA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Pasco, 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 Kennewick MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 455 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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