Turlock, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Modesto, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Turlock's car wash market built from 1,970 Google reviews across 12 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Mister Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.34★
- -0.07 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.4%
- 2.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$11
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $19.99/mo at Fast Track Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 72,400
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 25,302
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,033
- 3.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.34★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,970 Google reviews, 406 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Turlock, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Turlock reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 2 chains compete alongside 7 independents — typical mix for a market of 12 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 406 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.34★, damage 3.4%, cancel friction 10.7%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.47). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 5 of 12 Turlock locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$11), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $19.99–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.99/mo at Fast Track Car Wash (Good).
See the best-rated car washes in Turlock, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Turlock, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Turlock, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (42% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Turlock | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast Track Car Wash Good | $19.99/mo |
| 2 | Fast Track Car Wash Good | $19.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Turlock | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 4 | Fast Track Car Wash Good | $11 |
| 5 | Fast Track Car Wash Good | $11 |
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 Turlock, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Turlock have?
Format counts below split Turlock's 12 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 4.91★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.22★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 50.0% | 325 | 4.91 | 0.43% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 41.7% | 1,602 | 4.22 | 7.64% | 12.5% |
| Full Service | 1 | 8.3% | 43 | 4.70 | 6.25% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Turlock car washes?
12 Turlock car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: 0.10 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $67K AGI/return, 4.64★.
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 | 1 | 9 | 1,192 | 4.35 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 3 | 778 | 4.33 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Turlock's 12 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Turlock car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Turlock 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 | 909 | 4.11 | 8.66% | — | 0.00% |
| 2 | Fast Track Car Wash | 2 | 693 | 4.36 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Turlock car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 406 AI-extracted reviews across 12 Turlock car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 12 car washes in Turlock, CA?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Turlock. The full set of 12 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Mister Car Wash 980 W Monte Vista Ave | Turlock, CA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 583 | $91K |
| Fast Track Car Wash 1020 Powers Ct | Turlock, CA | Express Tunnel | Fast Track Car Wash | 4.4 | 429 | $59K |
| Mister Car Wash 1400 Geer Rd | Turlock, CA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 316 | $59K |
| Fast Track Car Wash 200 E Glenwood Ave | Turlock, CA | Express Tunnel | Fast Track Car Wash | 4.3 | 264 | $59K |
| FinestShineCA Mobile Detailing 4504 Glimmer Ln | Turlock, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 161 | $91K |
| 2 Guys Auto Detailing 1649 Carnegie Street, 4354 tahama ln | Turlock, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 56 | $59K |
| Performance Fuels & Car Wash 2120 W Main St | Turlock, CA | Full Service | — | 4.7 | 43 | $59K |
| Top Tier Detailing 845 Jessica St | Turlock, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 37 | $59K |
| Detailing's Finestt 460 Tulane Way | Turlock, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 34 | $91K |
| Speedys Mobile Detailing 1649 McCormick St | Turlock, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 22 | $59K |
Compare Turlock to other car wash markets in the Modesto 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). Turlock, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/turlock-ca
WashIndex. "Turlock, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/turlock-ca.
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Car wash inventory for Turlock, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Turlock, 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 Modesto MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 406 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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