Venice, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
3,959 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Venice. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Tommy's Express® Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.8%
- 1.9× below MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $13
- range $12–$24.99
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $24.99/mo at Lightning Fast Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 26,467
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 14,166
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,647
- 1.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 3.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.66★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,959 Google reviews, 1,240 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Venice, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 10 car wash locations, Venice matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 10 locations across 5 chains and 3 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.66★; damage 0.8%; membership-cancel friction 4.2%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (0.15). 3,959 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,240 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 5 of 10 Venice locations with menus available: median single car wash $13 (range $12–$24.99), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $24.99–$24.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $24.99/mo at Lightning Fast Car Wash (silver).
See the best-rated car washes in Venice, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Venice, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Venice, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (50% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Venice | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightning Fast Car Wash silver | $24.99/mo |
| 2 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $24.99/mo |
| 3 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Venice | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightning Fast Car Wash silver | $12 |
| 2 | Links Car Wash Basic | $12 |
| 3 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $13 |
| 4 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $13 |
| 5 | Hide Tide Auto Wash Express Wash | $24.99 |
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 Venice, FL
How many car washes are in Venice, FL?
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What kinds of car washes does Venice 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. Venice's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 5.00★ (3 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.63★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 50.0% | 3,529 | 4.63 | 0.98% | 4.2% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 30.0% | 353 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 20.0% | 77 | 4.39 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Venice car washes?
Each ZIP in Venice 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: -0.17 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $125K AGI/return, 4.69★.
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 | 5 | 1,780 | 4.40 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 1,742 | 4.90 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $150K+ | 1 | 4 | 437 | 4.78 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
Income band spread: 4/4.78★ 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 Venice car washes?
5 chains run sites in Venice; 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 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 2 | 587 | 4.52 | 2.12% | 13.5% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Circle K | 2 | 77 | 4.39 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Eager Beaver Car Wash | 1 | 1,188 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Links Car Wash | 1 | 12 | 4.70 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Lightning Fast Car Wash | 1 | 1,742 | 4.90 | 0.32% | 0.0% | 0.32% |
What do customers love and complain about at Venice car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,240 reviews, 10 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Venice's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 10 car washes in Venice, FL?
10 car washes are tracked in Venice; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Lightning Fast Car Wash 19401 Times Cir | Venice, FL | Express Tunnel | Lightning Fast Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,742 | $111K |
| Eager Beaver Car Wash 1791 S Tamiami Trl | Venice, FL | Express Tunnel | Eager Beaver Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,188 | $98K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 1758 S Tamiami Trl | Venice, FL | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.5 | 459 | $98K |
| Exquisite Detailing LLC 1234 E Venice Ave | Venice, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 232 | $163K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 365 U.S. 41 Bypass N | Venice, FL | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.6 | 128 | $163K |
| Venice Detail 21073 Anclote Ct | Venice, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 105 | $98K |
| Circle K 101 U.S. 41 Bypass S | Venice, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 4.3 | 54 | $163K |
| Circle K | Car Wash 101 U.S. 41 Bypass S | Venice, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 4.6 | 23 | $163K |
| Hide Tide Auto Wash 19725 Wellen Pk Blvd | Venice, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 16 | $98K |
| Links Car Wash 2273 S Tamiami Trl | Venice, FL | Express Tunnel | Links Car Wash | 4.7 | 12 | $98K |
Compare Venice to other car wash markets in the North Port metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Venice, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/venice-fl
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Car wash inventory for Venice, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Venice, 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 North Port MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,240 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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