South Jordan, UT Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
5,553 Google reviews across 14 car washes in South Jordan. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.49★
- +0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.1%
- 2.0× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 43% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 80,331
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 25,801
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,738
- 3.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.49★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,553 Google reviews, 1,555 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in South Jordan, UT · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
South Jordan sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 7 chains compete alongside 6 independents — typical mix for a market of 14 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 1,555 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 14-location market weighs in at 4.49★; damage rate 3.1%; cancel friction 21.1%. Staff strong (0.80); equipment reliability weak (-0.58). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in South Jordan, UT
Ranked by Google review rating
About South Jordan, UT
How many car washes are in South Jordan, UT?
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What is the best-rated car wash in South Jordan, UT?
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Which car wash chains operate in South Jordan, UT?
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What is the median household income near South Jordan car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in South Jordan, UT?
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What kinds of car washes does South Jordan have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. South Jordan's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.99★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.46★ (6 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 42.9% | 383 | 4.99 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 42.9% | 4,757 | 4.46 | 3.79% | 21.7% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.1% | 26 | 3.20 | 4.55% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 7.1% | 387 | 4.50 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near South Jordan car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in South Jordan tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $125K AGI/return, 4.64★.
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 | 1 | 10 | 4,816 | 4.45 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most South Jordan car washes?
7 chains alongside 6 independents make up South Jordan's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 2 | 1,019 | 4.73 | 3.93% | 8.0% | 1.15% |
| 2 | Rocket Carwash | 1 | 628 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Platinum Mobile Car Detailing of South Jordan | 1 | 11 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 876 | 4.00 | 8.18% | — | 0.91% |
| 5 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 1,515 | 4.60 | 2.77% | 26.2% | 1.73% |
| 6 | Thunder Wash Car and Pet Wash | 1 | 26 | 3.20 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Sam's Club Gas Station | 1 | 387 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at South Jordan car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,555 AI-extracted reviews across 14 South Jordan car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 14 car washes in South Jordan, UT?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the South Jordan market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Rocket Express Car Wash 11399 S Redwood Rd | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,515 | $125K |
| Mister Car Wash 3497 S Jordan Pkwy W | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.0 | 876 | $125K |
| Fast & Friendly Express Car Wash 1026 South Jordan Pkwy | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 719 | $125K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 11744 S Trl Xing Dr | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 649 | — |
| Sparkle Express Carwash 11643 S Redwood Rd | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | Rocket Carwash | 4.4 | 628 | $125K |
| Sam's Club Gas Station 11278 S Jordan Gateway | South Jordan, UT | In-Bay Automatic | Sam's Club Gas Station | 4.5 | 387 | $125K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 3668 W 11400 S | South Jordan, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 370 | $125K |
| Obsessed Detail and Restoration 3173 Woodland Pk Cv | South Jordan, UT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 132 | $125K |
| AJ Mobile Car Details 2746 Cousins Ln | South Jordan, UT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 104 | $125K |
| Dazzle Detailers 4367 Open Hill Dr | South Jordan, UT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 51 | — |
Compare South Jordan to other car wash markets in the Salt Lake City 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 22). South Jordan, UT car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/south-jordan-ut
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Car wash inventory for South Jordan, UT is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches South Jordan, 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 Salt Lake City MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,555 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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