St Cloud, MN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the St. Cloud, MN MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,384 Google reviews across 15 car washes in St Cloud. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Mister Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.29★
- -0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 4.5%
- 2.9× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 47% of classified
- Median single wash
- $22
- range $6–$22
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $15/mo at Pristine Whips Detailing & Property Care
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 69,926
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 27,748
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,662
- 2.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.4
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 8 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.29★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,384 Google reviews, 748 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in St Cloud, MN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 15 car wash locations, St Cloud matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 5 chains compete alongside 8 independents — typical mix for a market of 15 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 748 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.29★; damage 4.5%; membership-cancel friction 13.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.77/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 6 of 15 St Cloud locations with menus available: median single car wash $22 (range $6–$22), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $15–$56.96/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $15/mo at Pristine Whips Detailing & Property Care (Pro).
See the best-rated car washes in St Cloud, MN
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in St Cloud, MN?
Published menu pricing for car washes in St Cloud, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 6 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (40% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in St Cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pristine Whips Detailing & Property Care Pro | $15/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 5 | MD truck wash & service Trailer Washout | $56.96/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in St Cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pristine Whips Detailing & Property Care Starter | $6 |
| 2 | Dirty Details Interior Spa 1 Step Exterior Detail - SUV | $15 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Platinum | $22 |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash Platinum | $22 |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash Platinum | $22 |
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, MN
How many car washes are in St Cloud, MN?
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What kinds of car washes does St Cloud 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. St Cloud's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.51★ (7 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.07★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 46.7% | 762 | 4.51 | 1.61% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 26.7% | 1,150 | 4.25 | 10.51% | 13.9% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 13.3% | 408 | 4.07 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 13.3% | 64 | 3.77 | 0.00% | — |
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 15 qualifying locations: -0.17 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $67K AGI/return, 4.39★.
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 | 2 | 8 | 1,081 | 4.26 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 1,303 | 4.32 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 Cloud car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in St Cloud by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 801 | 4.23 | 7.34% | — | 0.56% |
| 2 | AM PM WASH | 1 | 139 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Holiday Stationstores | 1 | 38 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Sok's Rapid Car Wash | 1 | 269 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Crew Carwash | 1 | 349 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at St Cloud car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 748 AI-extracted reviews across 15 St Cloud car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 15 car washes in St Cloud, MN?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the St Cloud 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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| Mister Car Wash 3104 W Division St | St Cloud, MN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 587 | $78K |
| Crew Carwash 4118 W Division St | St Cloud, MN | Express Tunnel | Crew Carwash | 4.3 | 349 | $78K |
| St. Cloud Quick Lube and Detail Center 18 32nd Ave N | St Cloud, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 292 | $58K |
| Sok's Rapid Car Wash 2550 7th St N | St Cloud, MN | Self-Serve Bay | Sok's Rapid Car Wash | 3.9 | 269 | $58K |
| Pristine Whips Detailing & Property Care 2908 3rd St N | St Cloud, MN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 181 | $58K |
| Mister Car Wash 1604 Crossing Lp | St Cloud, MN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 162 | $58K |
| AM PM WASH & NOAH'S PET WASH 2759 Clearwater Rd | St Cloud, MN | Self-Serve Bay | AM PM WASH | 4.4 | 139 | $78K |
| Stay Clean Detailing 3423 Co Rd 74 Unit 4 | St Cloud, MN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 107 | $78K |
| MD truck wash & service 585 Franklin Ave NE | St Cloud, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 96 | $58K |
| Dirty Details Interior Spa 3337 W St Germain St | St Cloud, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 57 | $78K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). St Cloud, MN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/st-cloud-mn
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Car wash inventory for St Cloud, MN 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 St. Cloud MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 748 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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