St Cloud, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
2,632 Google reviews across 12 car washes in St Cloud. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Mister Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.21★
- -0.20 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$25
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 61,963
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 19,588
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,164
- 2.7× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.21★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,632 Google reviews, 973 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in St Cloud, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
St Cloud reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 12 locations across 3 chains and 6 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.21★, damage 1.5%, cancel friction 16.7%. Staff strong (0.81); equipment reliability weak (-0.79). 2,632 Google reviews drive the analysis, 973 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 4 of 12 St Cloud locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$25), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $22.99–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the best-rated car washes in St Cloud, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in St Cloud, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in St Cloud, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (33% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in St Cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in St Cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 4 | ELITE DETAIL DETAILING LLC Pet Hair Removal | $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 Cloud, FL
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What kinds of car washes does St Cloud have?
The format mix in St Cloud reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.98★ (6 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.76★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 50.0% | 732 | 4.98 | 0.20% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 25.0% | 106 | 3.76 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 25.0% | 1,794 | 3.93 | 2.98% | 16.7% |
What is the typical household income near St Cloud car washes?
Each ZIP in St Cloud is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: 0.74 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $62K AGI/return, 4.41★.
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 | 2 | 9 | 2,395 | 4.14 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 3 | 237 | 4.96 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 St Cloud car washes?
3 chains alongside 6 independents make up St Cloud'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 1,794 | 3.93 | 2.98% | 16.7% | 2.98% |
| 2 | Circle K | 2 | 46 | 3.57 | — | — | — |
| 3 | bp | 1 | 60 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at St Cloud car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 12 car washes in St Cloud, FL?
12 car washes are tracked in St Cloud; 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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| Mister Car Wash 716 E 13th St | St Cloud, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 707 | $50K |
| Mister Car Wash 4607 Neptune Rd | St Cloud, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.7 | 683 | $50K |
| Mister Car Wash 4670 13th St | St Cloud, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.0 | 404 | $50K |
| Alvarado’s Auto spa 4559 Baler Trails Dr | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 230 | $68K |
| Nap Auto Detail 500 E 17th St | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 211 | $50K |
| ELITE DETAIL DETAILING LLC 6377 Bass Hwy | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 115 | $84K |
| Gloss Theory | Mobile Detailing Services 6432 Sprucepine Ln | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 79 | $84K |
| bp 4485 13th St | St Cloud, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.9 | 60 | $50K |
| Supreme Mobile Detail 5033 Rhea Dr | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 54 | $68K |
| 247 Car Detail Mobile 2949 Sailhouse Dr | St Cloud, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 43 | $84K |
Compare St Cloud to other car wash markets in the Orlando 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). St Cloud, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/st-cloud-fl
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Car wash inventory for St Cloud, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches St Cloud, 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 Orlando MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 973 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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