Warren, OH Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Youngstown-Warren, OH MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
Warren: 9 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward in-bay automatic. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Sheetz (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.71★
- +0.30 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.1%
- 1.4× below MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 56% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 39,057
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,824
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,340
- 2.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 2 independents.
- In-bay automatic dominates: 55.6% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 3,859 Google reviews, 1,377 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Warren, OH · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Warren's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward in-bay automatic. 9 locations sit in the market; 55.6% of the classified subset are in-bay automatic, averaging 3.61★. Operating-quality signals below are best read as a study of in-bay automatic's execution.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.71★; damage runs 1.1%. The dominant in-bay automatic averages 3.61★ on its own. Aspect-level: Staff strong (0.91), equipment reliability weak (-0.34). The operator rank below shows which chains have committed most heavily to the dominant format.
See the best-rated car washes in Warren, OH
Ranked by Google review rating
About Warren, OH
How many car washes are in Warren, OH?
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Which car wash chains operate in Warren, OH?
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What is the median household income near Warren car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Warren, OH?
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What kinds of car washes does Warren have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Warren runs as a single-format city for car washing. 55.6% of classified locations are in-bay automatic — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.85★ (2 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.61★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 5 | 55.6% | 422 | 3.61 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 22.2% | 3,325 | 4.85 | 1.21% | 11.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 11.1% | 55 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — |
| Detail Shop | 1 | 11.1% | 57 | 4.00 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Warren car washes?
Income context is most useful in Warren for understanding where in-bay automatic clusters: typically in suburban middle-income ZIPs where its unit economics work. The scatter below makes the pattern visible.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.33 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $71K AGI/return, 4.07★.
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 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 3.50 | In-Bay Automatic (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 1 | 57 | 4.00 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 3,737 | 4.74 | In-Bay Automatic (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes at the top income tier (0.00★) vs. 1 at the bottom (3.50★). In-bay automatics concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Warren car washes?
Because Warren skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheetz | 3 | 292 | 3.69 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Super Suds Auto Spa | 2 | 130 | 3.45 | — | — | — |
| 3 | ModWash | 2 | 3,325 | 4.85 | 1.21% | 11.0% | 0.32% |
What do customers love and complain about at Warren car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.91); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.34).
Where are the 9 car washes in Warren, OH?
9 locations; the most-reviewed are shown below. In a format-concentrated market, the location table is mostly a leaderboard for the dominant format's top operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| ModWash 3495 Elm Rd NE | Warren, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 1,760 | $75K |
| ModWash 2505 Niles Cortland Rd SE | Warren, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.8 | 1,565 | $75K |
| Sheetz 4013 E Market St | Warren, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Sheetz | 3.5 | 117 | $75K |
| Sheetz 3379 Elm Rd NE | Warren, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Sheetz | 4.0 | 93 | $75K |
| Sheetz 1162 Niles Cortland Rd SE | Warren, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Sheetz | 3.6 | 82 | $75K |
| Super Suds Car Wash 1031 N River Rd NW | Warren, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Super Suds Auto Spa | 3.5 | 65 | $48K |
| Super Suds Auto Spa 8285 E Market St | Warren, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Super Suds Auto Spa | 3.4 | 65 | $75K |
| Buff n Stuff 554 E Market St | Warren, OH | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 57 | $59K |
| Primeshine Hand Carwash 3107 Niles Rd SE | Warren, OH | Full Service | — | 4.9 | 55 | $75K |
Compare Warren to other car wash markets in the Youngstown 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). Warren, OH car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/warren-oh
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Car wash inventory for Warren, OH is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Warren, 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 Youngstown MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,377 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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