Schertz, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
Schertz: 10 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward express tunnel. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 6
- lead: GO Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.43★
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 60% of classified
- Median single wash
- $20
- range $10–$34.99
- Median unlimited
- $15/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at Pic-n-Pac #14
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 101,710
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 34,843
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 10,171
- 5.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 3 independents.
- Express tunnel dominates: 60.0% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 3,180 Google reviews, 1,463 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Schertz, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Schertz's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward express tunnel. 60.0% of formally-classified locations operate as express tunnel; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how express tunnel performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.43★; damage runs 1.6%. The dominant express tunnel averages 4.53★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.88/+1). 3,180 Google reviews back the analysis, 1,463 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 7 of 10 Schertz locations with menus available: median single car wash $20 (range $10–$34.99), median unlimited membership $15/month (range $10–$39.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $10/mo at Pic-n-Pac #14 (Express Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Schertz, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Schertz, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Schertz, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (70% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Schertz | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pic-n-Pac #14 Express Wash | $10/mo |
| 2 | Fischer's Market #13 USE CODE SPARKLE50 AT CHECKOUT | $10/mo |
| 3 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $15/mo |
| 4 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $15/mo |
| 5 | BlueWave Express Car Wash Wash & Wheels | $21.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Schertz | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $10 |
| 2 | GO Car Wash Tier 4 | $10 |
| 3 | Pic-n-Pac #14 Express Wash | $20 |
| 4 | The Wash Tub GLEAM WASH | $27 |
| 5 | Big League Car Wash #4 Ceramic | $34.99 |
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 Schertz, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Schertz have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 6 of the 10 car washes in Schertz run as express tunnel. The mini-table below shows how the rest of the market splits.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.68★ (3 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 6 | 60.0% | 2,132 | 4.53 | 1.55% | 20.5% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 30.0% | 232 | 4.68 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 10.0% | 816 | 4.10 | 2.03% | 21.4% |
What is the typical household income near Schertz car washes?
Income context is most useful in Schertz for understanding where express tunnel clusters: typically in suburban middle-income ZIPs where its unit economics work. The scatter below makes the pattern visible.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: -0.13 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $80K AGI/return, 4.28★.
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 | 2 | 10 | 3,180 | 4.43 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Highest vs. lowest income tier: 0 sites/0.00★ vs. 0 sites/0.00★. Where the dominant format runs 60.0% of classified sites, the per-tier breakdown mostly reflects how that single format ranges across income levels.
Who operates the most Schertz car washes?
Because Schertz 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 | GO Car Wash | 2 | 1,037 | 4.22 | 6.17% | 27.5% | 0.82% |
| 2 | The Wash Tub | 1 | 816 | 4.10 | 2.03% | — | 1.02% |
| 3 | Pic-n-Pac | 1 | 27 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Big League Car Wash | 1 | 112 | 4.80 | 1.94% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | BlueWave Express Car Wash | 1 | 944 | 4.90 | 0.23% | 18.9% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Fischer's Market #13 | 1 | 12 | 3.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Schertz car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.88); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.30).
Where are the 10 car washes in Schertz, TX?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Schertz's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as express tunnel.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| BlueWave Express Car Wash 6050 FM3009 | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | BlueWave Express Car Wash | 4.9 | 944 | $80K |
| The Wash Tub 6011 FM3009 | Schertz, TX | Full Service | The Wash Tub | 4.1 | 816 | $80K |
| GO Car Wash 2244 FM3009 | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.3 | 761 | $80K |
| GO Car Wash 5370 FM1103 | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.0 | 276 | $81K |
| The Dream Jet Wash of Schertz 310 FM78 | Schertz, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 188 | $80K |
| Big League Car Wash #4 17969 I-35 N | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | Big League Car Wash | 4.8 | 112 | $80K |
| Pic-n-Pac #14 16830 I-35 | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | Pic-n-Pac | 3.1 | 27 | $80K |
| Jsupreme Auto Detailing 9482 FM1518 D10 | Schertz, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 25 | $80K |
| Swank Auto Lab 3009 Muscat Wy | Schertz, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 19 | $80K |
| Fischer's Market #13 17497 I-35 N | Schertz, TX | Express Tunnel | Fischer's Market #13 | 3.0 | 12 | $80K |
Compare Schertz to other car wash markets in the San Antonio metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Schertz, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/schertz-tx
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Car wash inventory for Schertz, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Schertz, 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 San Antonio MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,463 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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