Tulsa, OK Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Tulsa, OK MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
18,261 Google reviews across 46 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 46
- Chains
- 14
- lead: Quick N Clean Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.59★
- +0.18 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 48% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 412,322
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 171,382
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,964
- 4.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 46 car wash locations operated by 14 chains and 20 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 47.8% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Quick N Clean Car Wash (4 sites).
- Built from 18,261 Google reviews, 5,506 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
46 car wash locations in Tulsa, OK · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Operator concentration in Tulsa sits well above the US-market norm. Across 46 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 47.8% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Quick N Clean Car Wash the largest at 4 sites. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Operating-quality aggregates: rating 4.59★, damage 1.9%, membership-cancel friction 12.0%. Aspect spread: Staff (0.87) on the positive side, equipment reliability (-0.28) on the friction side. The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
See the best-rated car washes in Tulsa, OK
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Tulsa, OK
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 8 car-wash loans in Tulsa, OK worth $13.4M, at a median of $982,500 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 14% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open13% · $2.4M
- Expansion / improvement63% · $120K
- Unclassified25% · $983K
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About Tulsa, OK
How many car washes are in Tulsa, OK?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Tulsa, OK?
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Which car wash chains operate in Tulsa, OK?
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What is the median household income near Tulsa car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Tulsa, OK?
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What kinds of car washes does Tulsa have?
Tulsa's chain-heavy mix shapes the format distribution below. Express tunnels typically dominate consolidated markets — the format with the best unit economics for multi-location rollouts. Hand-finished detail shops and full-service operators usually run as the residual independent layer.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.91★ (22 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.35★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 22 | 47.8% | 4,479 | 4.91 | 0.55% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 21 | 45.7% | 12,451 | 4.49 | 2.43% | 12.1% |
| Full Service | 3 | 6.5% | 1,331 | 4.35 | 0.33% | — |
What is the typical household income near Tulsa car washes?
46 Tulsa locations with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean IRS AGI. The income picture in a consolidated market mostly reflects where the dominant operators saw the strongest unit economics.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 46 qualifying locations: 0.03 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $92K AGI/return, 4.56★.
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 | 5 | 12 | 3,786 | 4.62 | Detail Shop (8) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 7 | 4,687 | 4.77 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 15 | 6,140 | 4.47 | Express Tunnel (10) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 4 | 1,494 | 4.56 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $150K+ | 3 | 9 | 2,154 | 4.46 | Detail Shop (5) |
9 car washes in the top income tier (4.46★ avg) vs. 12 in the bottom (4.62★). Chain rollups gravitate toward middle-income suburbia — the part of the income curve where express-tunnel unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Tulsa car washes?
14 chains operate in Tulsa, with the top ten holding 47.8% of supply. Damage rate, cancel friction, and per-aspect ratings are broken out per chain — useful for understanding which operators drive the metro's headline numbers.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick N Clean Car Wash | 4 | 622 | 4.69 | 1.76% | 20.3% | 0.98% |
| 2 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4 | 2,113 | 4.22 | 11.15% | 5.6% | 1.39% |
| 3 | Zips Car Wash | 3 | 3,683 | 4.42 | 2.02% | 10.7% | 2.17% |
| 4 | Launch Car Wash | 2 | 818 | 4.46 | 2.97% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | White Glove Auto | 2 | 1,943 | 5.00 | 0.61% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Littlefield Express #926 | 2 | 53 | 3.41 | — | — | — |
| 7 | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 2 | 2,703 | 4.70 | 0.94% | 6.6% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Super Klean Car Wash | 1 | 65 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 9 | JD Mobile Detailing | 1 | 235 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 966 | 4.50 | 2.75% | 14.3% | 0.69% |
| 11 | Black Wave Mobile Detail | 1 | 31 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 1 | 1,263 | 4.80 | 1.77% | 13.7% | 1.04% |
| 13 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 632 | 4.40 | 0.00% | — | 1.04% |
| 14 | Gill Express | 1 | 156 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Tulsa car washes?
Aspect scores below aggregate the LLM extractions across all 46 locations in Tulsa. In a consolidated market, these aggregates skew toward the dominant chains' operating signatures — read alongside the chain rank above.
Where are the 46 car washes in Tulsa, OK?
46 car washes in the Tulsa city; the top of the list (ranked by review volume) is shown below. Most high-volume sites here belong to a top-10 chain.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Zips Car Wash 10220 E 61st St | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,742 | $83K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 10910 E 31st St | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,635 | $39K |
| White Glove Auto 4121 S 72nd E Ave | Tulsa, OK | Detail Shop | White Glove Auto | 5.0 | 1,459 | $52K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 4528 S Sheridan Rd | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,263 | $52K |
| WhiteWater Express Car Wash 8761 S Memorial Dr | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | WhiteWater Express Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,068 | $83K |
| Zips Car Wash 3912 S Sheridan Rd | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,047 | $52K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 5022 S Yale Ave | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 966 | $81K |
| Zips Car Wash 9553 Riverside Pkwy | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.4 | 894 | $178K |
| T-Mac's Auto Detailing 4142 S 70th E Ave | Tulsa, OK | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 724 | $52K |
| Launch Car Wash 7919 E 101st St S | Tulsa, OK | Express Tunnel | Launch Car Wash | 4.5 | 719 | $83K |
Compare Tulsa to other car wash markets in the Tulsa metro
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Tulsa, OK car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/tulsa-ok
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Car wash inventory for Tulsa, OK is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Tulsa, 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 Tulsa MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 5,506 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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