Pflugerville, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
3,049 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Pflugerville. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Surf Thru Express Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.32★
- -0.09 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.9%
- 2.5× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 55% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $8–$18
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 65,162
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 23,990
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,924
- 3.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.32★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,049 Google reviews, 988 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Pflugerville, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 11 car wash locations, Pflugerville matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 11 locations across 5 chains and 6 independents. Customer-experience signals across 988 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.32★, damage 3.9%, cancel friction 21.0%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.25). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 6 of 11 Pflugerville locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $8–$18), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $22.99–$24/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the best-rated car washes in Pflugerville, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Pflugerville, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Pflugerville, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 6 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (55% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Pflugerville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 2 | Watershed Carwash BASIC | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Club Car Wash ROOKIE | $24/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Pflugerville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $8 |
| 2 | Club Car Wash ROOKIE | $11 |
| 3 | Watershed Carwash BASIC | $11 |
| 4 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash Good Wash | $18 |
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 Pflugerville, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Pflugerville have?
Format counts below split Pflugerville's 11 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.99★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 54.5% | 967 | 4.96 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 36.4% | 1,921 | 3.99 | 9.11% | 22.1% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 9.1% | 161 | 4.40 | 3.15% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Pflugerville car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Pflugerville tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $87K AGI/return, 4.57★.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 11 | 3,049 | 4.32 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $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 Pflugerville's 11 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Pflugerville car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Pflugerville 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 |
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| 1 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 1 | 619 | 3.90 | 11.61% | — | 1.79% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 948 | 4.00 | 11.86% | — | 0.85% |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 272 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Gorilla Touchless Car Wash — Temple | 1 | 161 | 4.40 | 3.15% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Watershed Carwash | 1 | 82 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Pflugerville car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 988 AI-extracted reviews across 11 Pflugerville car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 11 car washes in Pflugerville, TX?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Pflugerville. The full set of 11 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Mister Car Wash 15400 FM1825 | Pflugerville, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.0 | 948 | $87K |
| Surf Thru Express Car Wash 1617 FM 685 | Pflugerville, TX | Express Tunnel | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 3.9 | 619 | $87K |
| KEEP CLEAN ATX LLC 3611 Thunian Pass | Pflugerville, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 374 | $87K |
| Authentic Details 1019 S Heatherwilde Blvd #150 | Pflugerville, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 303 | $87K |
| Club Car Wash 21315 TX-130 | Pflugerville, TX | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.1 | 272 | $87K |
| King Tint & Detail 3700 Apple Vista Cir | Pflugerville, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 179 | $87K |
| Gorilla Touchless Car Wash — Pflugerville 903 FM 685 | Pflugerville, TX | In-Bay Automatic | Gorilla Touchless Car Wash — Temple | 4.4 | 161 | $87K |
| Wash on Wheels: Mobile Car Wash and Detailing 14233 The Lakes Blvd | Pflugerville, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 86 | $87K |
| Watershed Carwash 1704 W Pecan St | Pflugerville, TX | Express Tunnel | Watershed Carwash | 4.1 | 82 | $87K |
| RH Auto Detailing 21616 Cupola Vw | Pflugerville, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 15 | $87K |
Compare Pflugerville to other car wash markets in the Austin 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 20). Pflugerville, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/pflugerville-tx
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Car wash inventory for Pflugerville, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Pflugerville, 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 Austin MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 988 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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