Alexandria Car Wash Market Analysis
Alexandria, LA
Data updated · June 9, 2026
3,411 Google reviews across 57 car washes in 2 Alexandria counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 57
- 86% independent
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Circle K (4 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.38★
- near national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.4%
- 1.6× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 25.6%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 63% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 150,593
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 55,855
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,642
- 1.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.9
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 57 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 49 independents across 2 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.38★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 3,411 Google reviews, 902 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
57 car wash locations across 2 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Alexandria's car wash market reads as US-metro-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 57 locations across 4 chains and 49 independents, distributed across 2 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.38★; damage 2.4%; membership-cancel friction 25.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.48). 3,411 Google reviews drive the analysis, 902 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Alexandria
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Alexandria metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Alexandria metro run about 34% below the national average ($21,337 vs. $32,560), across 10 employer establishments and roughly 64 jobs.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW (private, NAICS 811192). Counts car-wash employer establishments, a narrower universe than all physical wash locations — see methodology.
About the Alexandria car wash market
How many car washes are in the Alexandria metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Alexandria metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Alexandria?
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What is the average customer rating in the Alexandria car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Alexandria?
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What kinds of car washes does Alexandria 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. Alexandria's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.94★ across 3 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.40★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 8.8% | 1,624 | 4.40 | 5.47% | 18.9% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 5.3% | 376 | 4.94 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the household income near Alexandria car washes?
Each ZIP in Alexandria 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 Google rating across 27 qualifying locations: -0.30 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $66K AGI/return, 4.24★.
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 | 1 | 3 | 612 | 4.50 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 5 | 27 | 2,046 | 4.38 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 10 | 728 | 4.26 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 3 sites across 1 ZIPs at 4.50★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Alexandria car washes?
4 chains run sites in Alexandria; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circle K | 4 | 127 | 3.29 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Amerishine Car Wash | 2 | 932 | 4.35 | 5.07% | — | 1.84% |
| 3 | Chevron | 1 | 12 | 4.70 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Speedy Pete's Car Wash | 1 | 217 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Alexandria?
Alexandria's 57 car washes distribute across 2 counties. Rapides County leads with 51 locations (89.5%). Cross-county rating dispersion is usually narrow at this scale.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.53★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Rapides County | 51 | 89.5% | 3,384 | 4.37 |
| Grant County | 7 | 12.3% | 27 | 4.90 |
What do customers love and complain about in Alexandria?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. wait time is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are all the car washes in the Alexandria metro?
57 car washes are tracked in Alexandria; 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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| Amerishine Car Wash 3599 Monroe Hwy | Pineville, LA | Express Tunnel | Amerishine Car Wash | 4.4 | 492 | $65K |
| Amerishine Car Wash 6511 Coliseum Blvd | Alexandria, LA | Express Tunnel | Amerishine Car Wash | 4.3 | 440 | $78K |
| Metro Car Wash 1722 Metro Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 4.4 | 299 | $69K |
| Floyd's Carwash 4502 LA-28 | Pineville, LA | Express Tunnel | — | 4.5 | 249 | $65K |
| Clean Finish Car Wash 2768 LA-28 Suite E | Pineville, LA | Express Tunnel | — | 4.7 | 226 | $65K |
| Ray Hyde Paint & Body Works 5716 Gene Ball Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 4.4 | 225 | $42K |
| Speedy Pete's Car Wash 3923 S MacArthur Dr | Alexandria, LA | Express Tunnel | Speedy Pete's Car Wash | 4.2 | 217 | $42K |
| RnB Restyling: Window Tint-Vinyl Wrapping-Detailing 4106 Lee St | Alexandria, LA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 170 | $42K |
| Sal's Motors Auto Sales & Service Center 4075 LA-28 | Pineville, LA | — | — | 4.5 | 160 | $65K |
| Jambo Express Car wash 207 Edgewood Dr | Pineville, LA | — | — | 4.0 | 147 | $65K |
| Ceramic Pro Alexandria 301 John Allison Dr | Alexandria, LA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 114 | $78K |
| Super Dave's Auto Spa 5533 Masonic Dr | Alexandria, LA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 92 | $69K |
| The Wash 5701 Masonic Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 3.8 | 85 | $69K |
| Rich's of Louisiana 1308 Windsor Pl | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 4.2 | 72 | $78K |
| A Plus Carwash 4623 LA-28 | Pineville, LA | — | — | 3.8 | 58 | $65K |
| Details By Chit 5403 Masonic Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 4.4 | 46 | $69K |
| Rj's Handwash & Detail Center 5994 Jackson St | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 4.1 | 39 | $78K |
| Circle K 2888 Hwy 28 E | Pineville, LA | — | Circle K | 3.2 | 39 | $65K |
| Circle K 730 MacArthur Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | Circle K | 2.6 | 34 | $78K |
| Circle K 5819 Masonic Dr | Alexandria, LA | — | Circle K | 3.8 | 31 | $69K |
| Diamond Detailing 260 Walker Ferry Rd | Pollock, LA | — | — | 4.9 | 27 | $62K |
| Quick Wash 1705 E Texas Ave | Alexandria, LA | — | — | 3.7 | 24 | $69K |
| Circle K 4029 Jackson St Ext | Alexandria, LA | — | Circle K | 3.8 | 23 | $78K |
| Young's Detail Shop 517 Bragg St A | Pineville, LA | — | — | 4.3 | 21 | $65K |
| A Plus Storage, LLC. 2643 Old Marksville Hwy | Pineville, LA | — | — | 4.1 | 18 | $65K |
Compare Alexandria to other LA car wash markets
Each link drills into a full per-metro analysis — operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience signals against the same methodology.
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Alexandria car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/alexandria
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Car wash inventory for the Alexandria, LA CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 2 counties that make up the MSA. Each location was verified to fall inside one of those county polygons; lat/lng comes from Google Maps metadata.
Operating-quality signals are derived from 902 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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