Youngstown, OH Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Youngstown-Warren, OH MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
8,591 Google reviews across 15 car washes in Youngstown. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 4
- lead: ModWash (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.80★
- +0.39 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.4%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 40% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$20
- Median unlimited
- $21/mo
- cheapest $21/mo at Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 59,605
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 25,166
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 3,974
- 2.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.4
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.80★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 8,591 Google reviews, 2,004 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Youngstown, OH · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 15 car wash locations, Youngstown matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 4 chains compete alongside 6 independents — typical mix for a market of 15 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 2,004 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.80★; damage 1.4%; membership-cancel friction 10.7%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.92/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 4 of 15 Youngstown locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$20), median unlimited membership $21/month (range $21–$21/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $21/mo at Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC (Ripple).
See the best-rated car washes in Youngstown, OH
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Youngstown, OH?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Youngstown, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (27% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Youngstown | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC Ripple | $21/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Youngstown | ||
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| 1 | Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC Ripple | $10 |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
| 3 | Detail Doctor Interior or Exterior Wash Only - All Cars/Small S10 Trucks | $20 |
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 Youngstown, OH
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What kinds of car washes does Youngstown have?
Format counts below split Youngstown's 15 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 4.88★ (5 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.22★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 6 | 40.0% | 7,719 | 4.84 | 1.46% | 10.4% |
| Detail Shop | 5 | 33.3% | 347 | 4.88 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 20.0% | 457 | 4.22 | 3.77% | 14.3% |
| Full Service | 1 | 6.7% | 68 | 4.20 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Youngstown car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Youngstown tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 15 qualifying locations: -0.15 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $54K AGI/return, 4.62★.
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 | 2 | 3 | 300 | 4.80 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $50K – $75K | 4 | 12 | 8,291 | 4.80 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 3/4.80★ 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 Youngstown car washes?
4 chains alongside 6 independents make up Youngstown's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | ModWash | 4 | 7,120 | 4.86 | 1.24% | 11.3% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Super Suds Auto Spa | 3 | 457 | 4.22 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC | 1 | 211 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 388 | 4.70 | 3.38% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Youngstown car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,004 AI-extracted reviews across 15 Youngstown car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 15 car washes in Youngstown, OH?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Youngstown. The full set of 15 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| ModWash 750 Boardman Poland Rd | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 2,741 | $66K |
| ModWash 5420 Mahoning Ave | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 2,108 | $54K |
| ModWash 3850 Belmont Ave | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.8 | 1,981 | $55K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 6071 Mahoning Ave | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 388 | $54K |
| Modwash 1500 Boardman-Canfield Rd | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.7 | 290 | $66K |
| Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC 6191 South Ave | Youngstown, OH | Express Tunnel | Rogue Wave Auto Wash LLC | 4.2 | 211 | $66K |
| Youngstown Detail Co LLC. Paint Correction / Ceramic Coating / Paint Protection Film 1221 N Meridian Rd #18 | Youngstown, OH | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 188 | $34K |
| Super Suds Auto Spa 7685 South Ave | Youngstown, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Super Suds Auto Spa | 4.2 | 184 | $66K |
| Super Suds Auto Spa 5556 Mahoning Ave | Youngstown, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Super Suds Auto Spa | 4.2 | 166 | $54K |
| Super Suds Auto Spa 4630 Mahoning Ave | Youngstown, OH | In-Bay Automatic | Super Suds Auto Spa | 4.3 | 107 | $54K |
Compare Youngstown to other car wash markets in the Youngstown metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Youngstown, OH car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/youngstown-oh
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Car wash inventory for Youngstown, OH is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Youngstown, 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 2,004 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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