Round Rock, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
33 car washes, 11 chains, 4,727 AI-extracted reviews — concentrated more than the typical US market. Per-chain ratings vs. footprint, format mix, customer-experience signals across the chain-heavy market.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 33
- Chains
- 11
- lead: Mister Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.46★
- Damage rate
- 1.3%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 45% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $8–$27
- Median unlimited
- $19/mo
- cheapest $14/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 329,512
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 128,021
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 9,985
- 5.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.1
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 33 car wash locations operated by 11 chains and 17 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 45.5% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Mister Car Wash (3 sites).
- Built from 11,123 Google reviews, 4,727 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
33 car wash locations in Round Rock, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Round Rock stands out for how much chain rollup has reshaped supply. 11 chains operate alongside 17 independents, but Mister Car Wash (3 sites) accounts for the largest single concentration. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Average rating 4.46★ across 33 sites; damage 1.3%; cancel friction 12.7% of mem-discussing reviews. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.85/+1). The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
Published pricing across the 14 of 34 Round Rock locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $8–$27), median unlimited membership $19/month (range $14–$39/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $14/mo at Mister Car Wash (Base Plus).
See the best-rated car washes in Round Rock, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Round Rock, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Round Rock, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 14 of 34 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (41% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Round Rock | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base Plus | $14/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base Plus | $14/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base Plus | $14/mo |
| 4 | Soapy Falls Express Car Wash Round Rock Wheels & Tires | $14.99/mo |
| 5 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $15/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Round Rock | ||
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| 1 | Spotless Car Wash Turbo | $8 |
| 2 | Peak Shine Car Wash Base | $9 |
| 3 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash WhiteWater | $10 |
| 4 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $10 |
| 5 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $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 Round Rock, TX
How many car washes are in Round Rock, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does Round Rock have?
Because chain operators have consolidated supply here, format counts below skew toward the formats those chains build at scale. The lowest-rated format is usually a long-tail mix of small operators rather than a meaningful share of the market.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.85★ (15 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.70★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 15 | 45.5% | 1,317 | 4.85 | 0.32% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 14 | 42.4% | 7,501 | 4.45 | 1.17% | 11.5% |
| Full Service | 3 | 9.1% | 2,124 | 4.30 | 2.77% | 18.8% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 3.0% | 181 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Round Rock car washes?
33 Round Rock locations with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean IRS AGI. The income picture in a consolidated market mostly reflects where the dominant operators saw the strongest unit economics.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 33 qualifying locations: -0.02 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $97K AGI/return, 4.56★.
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 | 17 | 7,120 | 4.40 | Detail Shop (7) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 17 | 4,003 | 4.56 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 0 across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★. In a chain-consolidated market like Round Rock, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most Round Rock car washes?
In Round Rock, where chain share runs above the US-market median, the chain-level breakdown below is where most of the operating-quality signal sits. Mister Car Wash alone runs 3 of the metro's 33 sites; per-chain rating, damage rate, and membership-friction numbers follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 1,764 | 3.97 | 2.36% | 11.3% | 5.74% |
| 2 | GO Car Wash | 3 | 2,311 | 4.26 | 1.56% | 24.4% | 0.67% |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 84 | 4.05 | — | — | — |
| 4 | The Wash Tub | 1 | 738 | 4.00 | 4.82% | — | 1.81% |
| 5 | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 1 | 1,123 | 4.40 | 2.87% | 18.0% | 1.15% |
| 6 | Soapy Falls Express Car Wash Hutto | 1 | 230 | 4.70 | 2.87% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 1 | 1,948 | 4.90 | 0.36% | 6.2% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Peak Shine Car Wash | 1 | 405 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — | 0.32% |
| 9 | Suds Deluxe Car Wash | 1 | 474 | 4.90 | 1.80% | 0.0% | 0.26% |
| 10 | Speedy Stop | 1 | 51 | 3.00 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Wolf Creek Car Wash | 1 | 263 | 4.70 | 0.00% | — | 0.70% |
What do customers love and complain about at Round Rock car washes?
4,727 reviews feed the aspect grid below; each is computed as (positive − negative) / total, on a -1…+1 scale. In Round Rock, the dominant chains' aspect profiles drive most of the metro-wide score.
Where are the 33 car washes in Round Rock, TX?
33 car washes in the Round Rock city; the top of the list (ranked by review volume) is shown below. Most high-volume sites here belong to a top-10 chain.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 651 University Blvd | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,948 | $107K |
| GO Car Wash 1300 W Pflugerville Pkwy | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.2 | 1,153 | $79K |
| WASHGUYS Car Wash 2301 S I-35 Frontage Rd | Round Rock, TX | Full Service | WASHGUYS Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,123 | $79K |
| GO Car Wash 615 E Palm Valley Blvd | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,007 | $79K |
| Mister Car Wash 2720 I-35 | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.8 | 857 | $132K |
| The Wash Tub 1001 E Palm Valley Blvd | Round Rock, TX | Full Service | The Wash Tub | 4.0 | 738 | $79K |
| Mister Car Wash 1821 Gattis School Rd | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 664 | $79K |
| Suds Deluxe Car Wash 3545 N Interstate Hwy 35 | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | Suds Deluxe Car Wash | 4.9 | 474 | $79K |
| Ai Autoworks - Coatings & Upholstery 401 Texas Ave a | Round Rock, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 468 | $79K |
| Peak Shine Car Wash 1500 E Old Settlers Blvd | Round Rock, TX | Express Tunnel | Peak Shine Car Wash | 4.9 | 405 | $79K |
Compare Round Rock 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). Round Rock, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/round-rock-tx
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Car wash inventory for Round Rock, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Round Rock, 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 4,727 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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