Vacaville, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Vallejo, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
5,878 Google reviews across 14 car washes in Vacaville. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 5
- lead: 7 Flags Express Car Wash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.57★
- +0.16 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.8%
- Top format
- self-serve bay
- 29% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $12–$12
- Median unlimited
- $23.99/mo
- cheapest $23.99/mo at 7 Flags Express Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 102,085
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 34,401
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,292
- 3.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.57★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,878 Google reviews, 1,335 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Vacaville, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 14 car wash locations, Vacaville matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 14 locations across 5 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.57★, damage 1.8%, cancel friction 6.8%. Staff strong (0.87); equipment reliability weak (-0.26). 5,878 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,335 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 7 of 15 Vacaville locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $12–$12), median unlimited membership $23.99/month (range $23.99–$27.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $23.99/mo at 7 Flags Express Car Wash (Bronze).
See the best-rated car washes in Vacaville, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Vacaville, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Vacaville, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 7 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (47% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Vacaville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $23.99/mo |
| 2 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $23.99/mo |
| 3 | 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash Bronze | $23.99/mo |
| 4 | 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash Bronze | $23.99/mo |
| 5 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Vacaville | ||
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| 1 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
| 2 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
| 3 | 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
| 4 | 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
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 Vacaville, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Vacaville 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. Vacaville's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.98★ (3 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.77★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Self-Serve Bay | 4 | 28.6% | 1,200 | 4.31 | 6.96% | 7.4% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 21.4% | 283 | 4.98 | 1.92% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 21.4% | 223 | 3.77 | 0.00% | 100.0% |
| Full Service | 2 | 14.3% | 677 | 3.93 | 4.30% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 14.3% | 3,495 | 4.80 | 1.04% | 5.9% |
What is the typical household income near Vacaville car washes?
14 Vacaville 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 14 qualifying locations: 0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $94K AGI/return, 4.35★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 10 | 5,049 | 4.60 | Self-Serve Bay (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 5 | 829 | 4.40 | Self-Serve Bay (2) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Vacaville's 14 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Vacaville car washes?
5 chains run sites in Vacaville; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4 | 1,200 | 4.31 | 6.96% | — | 1.74% |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 2 | 3,495 | 4.80 | 1.04% | 5.9% | 0.09% |
| 3 | 76 | 2 | 169 | 3.89 | — | — | — |
| 4 | 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center | 1 | 454 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Shell | 1 | 54 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Vacaville car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,335 AI-extracted reviews across 14 Vacaville car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 14 car washes in Vacaville, CA?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Vacaville 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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| Quick Quack Car Wash 5001 Walnut Rd | Vacaville, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,904 | $86K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 849 Davis St | Vacaville, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,591 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Express Car Wash 1337 E Monte Vista Ave | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 538 | $109K |
| 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center 520 Orange Dr | Vacaville, CA | Full Service | 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center | 3.7 | 454 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Express Car Wash 108 Elmira Rd | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.1 | 362 | $86K |
| Alamo Lane 100 % Hand Car Wash 760 Alamo Ln | Vacaville, CA | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 223 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash 1300 Callen St | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.2 | 175 | $109K |
| Dent Express 801 Davis St | Vacaville, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 168 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash 3551 Alamo Dr | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 125 | $86K |
| 76 815 Leisure Town Rd | Vacaville, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.8 | 95 | $86K |
Compare Vacaville to other car wash markets in the Vallejo 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). Vacaville, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/vacaville-ca
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Car wash inventory for Vacaville, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Vacaville, 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 Vallejo MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,335 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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