Silver Spring, MD Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
Silver Spring: 11 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Mr Wash Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.38★
- Damage rate
- 0.9%
- 1.7× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 73% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 82,129
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 34,167
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,466
- 3.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.3
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 72.7% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,770 Google reviews, 879 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Silver Spring, MD · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Detail shop dominates the operating mix in Silver Spring. 72.7% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. The format-level table below is where the structural story for this market sits.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.38★; damage runs 0.9%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.96★ on its own. Aspect-level: Wash quality strong (0.92), equipment reliability weak (-1.00). 2,770 Google reviews back the analysis, 879 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Silver Spring, MD
Ranked by Google review rating
About Silver Spring, MD
How many car washes are in Silver Spring, MD?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Silver Spring, MD?
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Which car wash chains operate in Silver Spring, MD?
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What is the median household income near Silver Spring car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Silver Spring, MD?
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What kinds of car washes does Silver Spring have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Silver Spring runs as a single-format city for car washing. 72.7% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (8 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.30★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 72.7% | 1,643 | 4.96 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 9.1% | 916 | 3.30 | 8.70% | 21.1% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 9.1% | 124 | 4.30 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 9.1% | 87 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Silver Spring car washes?
11 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 72.7% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 11 qualifying locations: -0.36 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $92K AGI/return, 4.70★.
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 | 1 | 2 | 187 | 4.98 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 4 | 376 | 4.89 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 5 | 2,207 | 4.25 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes at the top income tier (0.00★) vs. 0 at the bottom (0.00★). Detail shops concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Silver Spring car washes?
Because Silver Spring 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Wash Car Wash | 1 | 916 | 3.30 | — | 21.1% | — |
| 2 | 100 DETAILS | 1 | 12 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 3 | bp | 1 | 124 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Silver Spring car washes?
Aspect averages below are heavily shaped by Silver Spring's dominant format. Since 72.7% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop, the aspect mix is closer to a detail shop read than to a multi-format average.
Where are the 11 car washes in Silver Spring, MD?
Top locations by review count in Silver Spring. With 72.7% 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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| Mr Wash Car Wash 7996 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD | Express Tunnel | Mr Wash Car Wash | 3.3 | 916 | $112K |
| Your Detail 8715 1st Ave | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 868 | $112K |
| Cliff Dewey's Auto Detailing Systems 2141 Industrial Pkwy | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 314 | $80K |
| Maryland Auto Spa 8931 Brookville Rd | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 212 | $112K |
| Sharp Detail Silver Spring 14104 Whispering Pines Ct | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 164 | $70K |
| bp 2601 Forest Glen Rd | Silver Spring, MD | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.3 | 124 | $112K |
| Super Shiny Hand Car Wash and Auto Detailing 2601 Forest Glen Rd | Silver Spring, MD | Full Service | — | 5.0 | 87 | $112K |
| VIP Detailers 12905 Morningside Ln | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 27 | $80K |
| Dan’s Mobile Detailing 3626 Summer House St | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 23 | $70K |
| Dripp Detail LLC 11407 Wheaton Hill Dr | Silver Spring, MD | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 23 | $78K |
Compare Silver Spring to other car wash markets in the Washington, DC 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). Silver Spring, MD car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/silver-spring-md
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Car wash inventory for Silver Spring, MD is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Silver Spring, 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 Washington, DC MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 879 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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