Yuma, AZ Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Yuma, AZ MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
4,214 Google reviews across 15 car washes in Yuma. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Soft Cloth Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.29★
- -0.12 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.9%
- 1.9× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 53% of classified
- Median single wash
- $7
- range $7–$38
- Median unlimited
- $20/mo
- cheapest $20/mo at Soft Cloth Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 98,461
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 37,823
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,564
- 3.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.1
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.29★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,214 Google reviews, 788 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Yuma, AZ · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 15 car wash locations, Yuma matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 5 chains compete alongside 7 independents — typical mix for a market of 15 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 788 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.29★; damage 2.9%; membership-cancel friction 21.5%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.76/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 6 of 15 Yuma locations with menus available: median single car wash $7 (range $7–$38), median unlimited membership $20/month (range $20–$27/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $20/mo at Soft Cloth Car Wash (The Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Yuma, AZ
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Yuma, AZ?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Yuma, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 6 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (40% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Yuma | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $20/mo |
| 2 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $20/mo |
| 3 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $20/mo |
| 4 | Clean Freak Car Wash ULTIMATE | $27/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Yuma | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tropic Car Wash Yuma Dust Buster Wash | $7 |
| 2 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $7 |
| 3 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $7 |
| 4 | Soft Cloth Car Wash The Wash | $7 |
| 5 | Clean Freak Car Wash ULTIMATE | $23 |
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 Yuma, AZ
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What kinds of car washes does Yuma have?
Format counts below split Yuma'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: Express Tunnel at 4.37★ (8 locations). Lowest: Detail Shop at 4.01★ (7 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 8 | 53.3% | 3,320 | 4.37 | 3.09% | 21.9% |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 46.7% | 894 | 4.01 | 2.43% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Yuma car washes?
Each ZIP in Yuma 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 15 qualifying locations: 0.42 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $64K AGI/return, 4.43★.
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 | 3 | 15 | 4,214 | 4.29 | Express Tunnel (8) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Yuma's 15 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Yuma car washes?
5 chains run sites in Yuma; 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 | Soft Cloth Car Wash | 3 | 920 | 4.31 | 3.00% | — | 1.00% |
| 2 | Extreme Clean Detail Center | 2 | 146 | 4.18 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Clean Freak Car Wash | 1 | 868 | 4.30 | 6.67% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Quick N Clean Car Wash | 1 | 251 | 4.70 | 1.10% | 6.1% | 0.55% |
| 5 | Pure Finish | 1 | 14 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Yuma car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 788 AI-extracted reviews across 15 Yuma 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 Yuma, AZ?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Yuma. The full set of 15 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Clean Freak Car Wash 328 E 16th St | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | Clean Freak Car Wash | 4.3 | 868 | $57K |
| Magic Mist Car Wash 195 W 24th St | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 765 | $57K |
| Romeos Car Wash 2301 S 4th Ave | Yuma, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 3.7 | 534 | $57K |
| Tropic Car Wash Yuma 3208 S Ave 8 E | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 479 | $70K |
| Soft Cloth Car Wash 900 S 4th Ave | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | Soft Cloth Car Wash | 4.3 | 451 | $57K |
| Soft Cloth Car Wash 790 E 32nd St | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | Soft Cloth Car Wash | 4.3 | 370 | $70K |
| Quick N Clean Car Wash 3202 S Ave 8 E | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | Quick N Clean Car Wash | 4.7 | 251 | $70K |
| Roberts Rv Mobile Wash 2454 E 13th St | Yuma, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 142 | $70K |
| Extreme Clean Truck & RV Wash Yuma Arizona 10800 N Frontage Rd Ste D | Yuma, AZ | Detail Shop | Extreme Clean Detail Center | 3.8 | 100 | $69K |
| Soft Cloth Car Wash 1922 S Avenue B | Yuma, AZ | Express Tunnel | Soft Cloth Car Wash | 4.4 | 99 | $57K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Yuma, AZ car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/yuma-az
WashIndex. "Yuma, AZ car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/yuma-az.
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Car wash inventory for Yuma, AZ is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Yuma, 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 Yuma MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 788 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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