St Johns, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Jacksonville, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
4,971 Google reviews across 10 car washes in St Johns. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 3
- lead: GATE Express Carwash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.77★
- +0.36 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.1%
- 1.5× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
- Median unlimited
- $32.99/mo
- cheapest $32.99/mo at GATE Express Carwash
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.77★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,971 Google reviews, 2,836 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in St Johns, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
St Johns's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 10 locations across 3 chains and 5 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 10-location market weighs in at 4.77★; damage rate 1.1%; cancel friction 10.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.94/+1). 4,971 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,836 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 2 of 10 St Johns locations with menus available: median unlimited membership $32.99/month (range $32.99–$32.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $32.99/mo at GATE Express Carwash (Diamond).
See the best-rated car washes in St Johns, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in St Johns, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in St Johns, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (20% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in St Johns | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GATE Express Carwash Diamond | $32.99/mo |
| 2 | GATE Express Carwash Diamond | $32.99/mo |
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 Johns, FL
How many car washes are in St Johns, FL?
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What kinds of car washes does St Johns have?
Format counts below split St Johns's 10 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 4.97★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.75★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 50.0% | 4,601 | 4.75 | 1.14% | 10.9% |
| Detail Shop | 5 | 50.0% | 370 | 4.97 | 0.35% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near St Johns car washes?
Each ZIP in St Johns 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 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $149K AGI/return, 4.76★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 10 | 4,971 | 4.77 | 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 St Johns car washes?
3 chains alongside 5 independents make up St Johns'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 | GATE Express Carwash | 2 | 739 | 4.34 | 11.21% | — | 1.72% |
| 2 | LUV Car Wash | 2 | 3,770 | 4.83 | 0.68% | 10.1% | 0.21% |
| 3 | ModWash | 1 | 92 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at St Johns 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 10 car washes in St Johns, FL?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the St Johns 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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| LUV Car Wash 381 Harper Ln | St Johns, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.8 | 2,500 | $149K |
| LUV Car Wash 63 Little Cypress Dr | St Johns, FL | Express Tunnel | LUV Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,270 | $149K |
| GATE Express Carwash 786 Durbin Pavilion Dr | St Johns, FL | Express Tunnel | GATE Express Carwash | 4.3 | 435 | $149K |
| GATE Express Carwash 2015 County Rd 210 West | St Johns, FL | Express Tunnel | GATE Express Carwash | 4.4 | 304 | $149K |
| All Star Mobile Car Detailing 735 E Dorchester Dr | St Johns, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 162 | $149K |
| Gloss Pro Auto Spa - Ceramic Coating & PPF 1088 Flach Dr | St Johns, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 124 | $149K |
| ModWash 495 Beachwalk Shr Dr | St Johns, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.8 | 92 | $149K |
| Flagship Detailing 376 W Blackjack Branch Way | St Johns, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 52 | $149K |
| Smooth Touch Mobile Detailing 153 Servia Dr | St Johns, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 20 | $149K |
| E.R. Detailing Jax 345 Grand Cypress Dr Apartment 1319 | St Johns, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 12 | $149K |
Compare St Johns 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 Johns, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/st-johns-fl
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Car wash inventory for St Johns, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches St Johns, 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 2,836 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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