Woodland, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
2,683 Google reviews across 9 Woodland car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Per-format breakdown, operator dominance within the leading format, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 1
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.49★
- +0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.5%
- 1.6× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 56% of classified
- Median single wash
- $50
- range $9–$50
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $19.99/mo at Five Star Car Wash & Detail
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 61,256
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 21,069
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,806
- 3.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 1 chain and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 55.6% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 2,683 Google reviews, 936 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Woodland, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Woodland's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 55.6% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Headline operating signals: 4.49★ rating, 2.5% damage, 10.5% cancel friction. Aspect-level: Staff strong (0.84), equipment reliability weak (-0.16). 2,683 Google reviews back the analysis, 936 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 5 of 9 Woodland locations with menus available: median single car wash $50 (range $9–$50), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $19.99–$60.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.99/mo at Five Star Car Wash & Detail (Unlimited Pass).
See the best-rated car washes in Woodland, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Woodland, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Woodland, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (56% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Woodland | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five Star Car Wash & Detail Unlimited Pass | $19.99/mo |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 3 | Sparkles Car Wash & Lube Chemical Only | $60.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Woodland | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | K's Car Wash Wash | $9 |
| 2 | Buffies high end detailing Premium Exterior Wash | $50 |
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 Woodland, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Woodland have?
Detail shop dominates Woodland — 55.6% of formally-classified locations. The table below shows how the long tail breaks down: typically a thin layer of full-service, detail-shop, or self-serve operators serving a different occasion than the dominant format.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.82★ (5 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.97★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 55.6% | 117 | 4.82 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 22.2% | 818 | 3.97 | 5.74% | 17.4% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 11.1% | 249 | 4.20 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 11.1% | 1,499 | 4.80 | 2.19% | 7.7% |
What is the typical household income near Woodland car washes?
Because Woodland is detail shop-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.13 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $81K AGI/return, 4.59★.
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 | 2 | 9 | 2,683 | 4.49 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes at the top income tier (0.00★) vs. 0 at the bottom (0.00★). Detail shops concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Woodland car washes?
In Woodland, the chain rank below is closely tied to format dominance — the largest operators tend to be the ones that built out the dominant detail shop at scale. Per-chain quality numbers help separate format-correlated signal from operator-correlated signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 1 | 1,499 | 4.80 | 2.19% | 7.7% | 0.55% |
What do customers love and complain about at Woodland car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.84); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.16).
Where are the 9 car washes in Woodland, CA?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Woodland's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as detail shop.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 236 W Main St | Woodland, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,499 | $82K |
| Sparkles Car Wash & Lube 18440 Co Rd 102 | Woodland, CA | Full Service | — | 4.0 | 579 | $81K |
| K's Car Wash 1016 E Gibson Rd | Woodland, CA | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.2 | 249 | $82K |
| Five Star Car Wash & Detail 420 Pioneer Ave | Woodland, CA | Full Service | — | 3.9 | 239 | $81K |
| Castillo auto Detailing 1216 E Beamer St #D | Woodland, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.4 | 36 | $81K |
| It's in the Detail Premium Car Care LLC 40 N Walnut St | Woodland, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 33 | $82K |
| Royal Auto Detailing 2799 Ortiz Pl | Woodland, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 20 | $81K |
| Detailing Dawgs 1439 Peterson Dr | Woodland, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 18 | $81K |
| Buffies high end detailing 907 Bourn Dr | Woodland, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 10 | $81K |
Compare Woodland to other car wash markets in the Sacramento 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 2026-05-20. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Woodland, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/woodland-ca
WashIndex. "Woodland, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/woodland-ca.
"Woodland, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 20, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/woodland-ca.
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Car wash inventory for Woodland, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Woodland, 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 Sacramento MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 936 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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