Rancho Cordova, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Rancho Cordova's car wash market built from 5,239 Google reviews across 14 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Shell (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.1%
- 1.4× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 43% of classified
- Median single wash
- $24.99
- range $24.99–$24.99
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 80,656
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 27,715
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,761
- 3.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.1
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.66★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,239 Google reviews, 1,657 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Rancho Cordova, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Rancho Cordova reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 14 locations across 5 chains and 6 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.66★; damage 1.1%; membership-cancel friction 3.4%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.21). 5,239 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,657 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 16 Rancho Cordova locations with menus available: median single car wash $24.99 (range $24.99–$24.99), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $24.99–$50/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash (Good).
See the best-rated car washes in Rancho Cordova, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Rancho Cordova, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Rancho Cordova, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 16 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (25% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Rancho Cordova | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 3 | Zinfandel Car Wash XpresBASE | $50/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Rancho Cordova | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palace Shine Hand Car Wash Hand Car Wash | $24.99 |
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 Rancho Cordova, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Rancho Cordova have?
The format mix in Rancho Cordova 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 4.93★ (6 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.56★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 42.9% | 816 | 4.93 | 0.71% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 28.6% | 278 | 3.56 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 21.4% | 4,127 | 4.69 | 1.20% | 3.4% |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.1% | 18 | 4.50 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Rancho Cordova car washes?
Each ZIP in Rancho Cordova is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 14 qualifying locations: 0.20 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $99K AGI/return, 4.21★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 8 | 2,415 | 4.69 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 8 | 2,824 | 4.64 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ 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 Rancho Cordova car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Rancho Cordova 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 | Shell | 3 | 183 | 3.43 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 2 | 4,116 | 4.69 | 1.20% | 3.4% | 0.30% |
| 3 | Sud Studs Car Wash | 1 | 11 | 2.60 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Palace Shine Car Wash | 1 | 18 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Royal Tint | 1 | 308 | 4.90 | 0.99% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | 76 | 1 | 95 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Rancho Cordova car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,657 reviews, 14 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Rancho Cordova's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 14 car washes in Rancho Cordova, CA?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Rancho Cordova. The full set of 14 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 3050 Sunrise Blvd | Rancho Cordova, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 2,222 | $125K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 2346 Sunrise Blvd | Rancho Cordova, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,894 | $79K |
| Sacramento Car Detailing 11362 Amalgam Way | Rancho Cordova, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 201 | $79K |
| Shell 3050 Zinfandel Dr | Rancho Cordova, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.8 | 117 | $79K |
| HighDef Detail & Auto Alterations 2710 Mercantile Dr | Rancho Cordova, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 103 | $125K |
| 76 11079 Folsom Blvd | Rancho Cordova, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.8 | 95 | $79K |
| Dazzle's Wraps - Vehicle Wraps, Window Tint, PPF, Ceramic Coatings, Paint Correction, Exterior & Interior Detailing 11480 Sunrise Gold Cir #5 | Rancho Cordova, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 69 | $125K |
| Shell 2401 Sunrise Blvd | Rancho Cordova, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.2 | 41 | $79K |
| Foxxss Auto Spa 11330 Amalgam Way | Rancho Cordova, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 38 | $79K |
| Shell 3096 Sunrise Blvd | Rancho Cordova, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 2.1 | 25 | $125K |
Compare Rancho Cordova to other car wash markets in the Sacramento 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). Rancho Cordova, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/rancho-cordova-ca
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Car wash inventory for Rancho Cordova, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Rancho Cordova, 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 Sacramento MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,657 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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