Redmond, WA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
2,083 Google reviews across 18 Redmond car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 18
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Brown Bear Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.32★
- -0.09 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 4.4%
- 2.8× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 72% of classified
- Median single wash
- $50
- range $7–$50
- Median unlimited
- $19/mo
- cheapest $19/mo at Eastside Auto Detailing - Ceramic Coating, Car Wraps, Paint Protection Film
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 75,721
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 31,997
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,207
- 2.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 18 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 14 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 72.2% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,083 Google reviews, 411 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
18 car wash locations in Redmond, WA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Redmond's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 72.2% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Average rating 4.32★; damage 4.4%; detail shop averages 4.78★. Membership value stands out positively (1.00/+1). 2,083 Google reviews back the analysis, 411 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 2 of 18 Redmond locations with menus available: median single car wash $50 (range $7–$50), median unlimited membership $19/month (range $19–$19/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19/mo at Eastside Auto Detailing - Ceramic Coating, Car Wraps, Paint Protection Film (Basic Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Redmond, WA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Redmond, WA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Redmond, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 18 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (11% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Redmond | ||
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| 1 | Eastside Auto Detailing - Ceramic Coating, Car Wraps, Paint Protection Film Basic Wash | $19/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Redmond | ||
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| 1 | Eastside Auto Detailing - Ceramic Coating, Car Wraps, Paint Protection Film Basic Wash | $7 |
| 2 | JetShine Mobile Detailing Extra Dirty | $50 |
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 Redmond, WA
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What kinds of car washes does Redmond have?
Detail shop dominates Redmond — 72.2% 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 4.78★ (13 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.48★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 13 | 72.2% | 551 | 4.78 | 0.47% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 11.1% | 1,360 | 4.24 | 10.18% | 12.5% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 11.1% | 158 | 3.48 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 5.6% | 14 | 3.40 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Redmond car washes?
18 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 72.2% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 18 qualifying locations: 0.04 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $230K AGI/return, 4.52★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 2 | 18 | 2,083 | 4.32 | Detail Shop (13) |
Top tier 18 sites at 4.32★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Redmond'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 Redmond car washes?
Because Redmond skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Brown Bear Car Wash | 2 | 1,360 | 4.24 | 10.18% | — | 0.60% |
| 2 | 76 | 2 | 158 | 3.48 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Redmond car washes?
Membership value stands out positively (1.00); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.81).
Where are the 18 car washes in Redmond, WA?
Top locations by review count in Redmond. With 72.2% 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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| Brown Bear Car Wash 17809 Redmond Wy | Redmond, WA | Express Tunnel | Brown Bear Car Wash | 4.2 | 847 | $224K |
| Brown Bear Car Wash 8296 Avondale Way NE | Redmond, WA | Express Tunnel | Brown Bear Car Wash | 4.3 | 513 | $224K |
| Metropolitan Detail 8539 152nd Ave NE | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 107 | $224K |
| 76 23530 Redmond-Fall City Rd NE | Redmond, WA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.7 | 101 | $261K |
| Oceanhills Auto Detailing 15211 NE 90th St | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 98 | $224K |
| Acme Auto Detail 17825 NE 65th St Suite A-165 | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.2 | 73 | $224K |
| Seattle ClearBra 14788 NE 95th St | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 65 | $224K |
| 76 16010 Redmond Wy | Redmond, WA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.1 | 57 | $224K |
| Metropolitan Detail Express 16501 NE 76th St | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 48 | $224K |
| Carbon Coatings 15211 NE 90th St | Redmond, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 31 | $224K |
Compare Redmond to other car wash markets in the Seattle 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 2026-05-20. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Redmond, WA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/redmond-wa
WashIndex. "Redmond, WA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/redmond-wa.
"Redmond, WA car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 20, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/redmond-wa.
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Car wash inventory for Redmond, WA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Redmond, 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 Seattle MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 411 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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