St. Augustine, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Jacksonville, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of St. Augustine's car wash market built from 6,766 Google reviews across 22 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 22
- Chains
- 8
- lead: GATE Express Carwash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.54★
- +0.13 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.7%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 45% of classified
- Median single wash
- $24
- range $15–$25
- Median unlimited
- $32.99/mo
- cheapest $12.99/mo at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 14,979
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 6,243
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 681
- 2.8× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 12.8
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 22 car wash locations operated by 8 chains and 10 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.54★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 6,766 Google reviews, 2,684 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
22 car wash locations in St. Augustine, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
St. Augustine's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 22 locations across 8 chains and 10 independents. Customer-experience signals across 2,684 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.54★, damage 1.7%, cancel friction 7.4%. Staff strong (0.88); equipment reliability weak (-0.31). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 9 of 23 St. Augustine locations with menus available: median single car wash $24 (range $15–$25), median unlimited membership $32.99/month (range $12.99–$32.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $12.99/mo at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax (Basic Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in St. Augustine, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in St. Augustine, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in St. Augustine, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 9 of 23 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (39% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in St. Augustine | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax Basic Wash | $12.99/mo |
| 2 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97/mo |
| 3 | Hurricane Express Wash INCLUDES CAT 4 PLUS | $30/mo |
| 4 | Mr. Clean Car Wash Gold Family Plan - Additional Vehicle 1 | $32.99/mo |
| 5 | GATE Express Carwash Diamond | $32.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in St. Augustine | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
| 2 | Hurricane Express Wash INCLUDES CAT 4 PLUS | $24 |
| 3 | Spotless Mobile Car Wash & Pressure Cleaning Engine Degrease | $25 |
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 St. Augustine, FL
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What kinds of car washes does St. Augustine have?
Format counts below split St. Augustine's 22 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.98★ (10 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.50★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 10 | 45.5% | 1,414 | 4.98 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 8 | 36.4% | 4,631 | 4.47 | 2.55% | 9.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 13.6% | 387 | 3.50 | 2.08% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 4.5% | 334 | 4.90 | 0.78% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near St. Augustine car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in St. Augustine tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 22 qualifying locations: -0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $108K AGI/return, 4.60★.
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 | 2 | 12 | 5,109 | 4.57 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 11 | 1,657 | 4.47 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most St. Augustine car washes?
8 chains run sites in St. Augustine; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GATE Express Carwash | 4 | 642 | 4.34 | 6.54% | 10.8% | 0.38% |
| 2 | bp | 2 | 324 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 63 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 1 | 334 | 4.90 | 0.78% | 0.0% | 0.39% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 423 | 4.60 | 2.17% | — | 1.09% |
| 6 | Hurricane Express Wash | 1 | 1,163 | 4.60 | 2.45% | 2.0% | 0.00% |
| 7 | LUV Car Wash | 1 | 2,287 | 4.40 | 1.68% | 8.5% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Diamond Auto Spa | 1 | 51 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at St. Augustine car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,684 AI-extracted reviews across 22 St. Augustine car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 22 car washes in St. Augustine, FL?
22 car washes are tracked in St. Augustine; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| LUV Car Wash 520 S Ponce De Leon Blvd | St. Augustine, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.4 | 2,287 | $81K |
| Hurricane Express Wash 145 Movie St | St. Augustine, FL | Express Tunnel | Hurricane Express Wash | 4.6 | 1,163 | $77K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2789 Kenton Morrison Rd | St. Augustine, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 423 | $81K |
| Mr. Clean Car Wash 150 McCoy Wy | St. Augustine, FL | Full Service | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 4.9 | 334 | $135K |
| Prince's Mobile Detailing 4665 Second Ave | St. Augustine, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 300 | $135K |
| GATE Express Carwash 1430 Plantation Island Dr S | St. Augustine, FL | Express Tunnel | GATE Express Carwash | 4.4 | 248 | $150K |
| GATE Express Carwash 100 Vlg Cmns Dr | St. Augustine, FL | Express Tunnel | GATE Express Carwash | 4.2 | 248 | $124K |
| bp 125 Center Pl Way | St. Augustine, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.3 | 218 | $135K |
| EcoTech Detailing 1627 Dobbs Rd Ste 102 | St. Augustine, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 185 | $81K |
| Luxe Auto Detailing 320 St Augustine S Dr | St. Augustine, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 167 | $77K |
Compare St. Augustine to other car wash markets in the Jacksonville 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). St. Augustine, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/st-augustine-fl
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Car wash inventory for St. Augustine, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches St. Augustine, 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 Jacksonville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,684 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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