Anniston Car Wash Market Analysis
Anniston-Oxford, AL
Data updated · June 9, 2026
5,040 Google reviews across 59 car washes in 1 Anniston counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 59
- 88% independent
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Xtreme Car Wash #3 (2 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.54★
- +0.13 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.3%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 14.9%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 67% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 116,141
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 45,125
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,968
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.3
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 59 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 52 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.54★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 5,040 Google reviews, 1,720 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
59 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Anniston sits near the center of the US-metro distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 6 chains compete alongside 52 independents — typical mix for a market of 59 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 1,720 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.54★; damage 1.3%; membership-cancel friction 14.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.87/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the top car wash chains in Anniston
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Anniston metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Anniston metro run about 22% below the national average ($25,479 vs. $32,560), across 8 employer establishments and roughly 126 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.
Car wash financing in the Anniston metro
Consolidating marketSince 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 8 car-wash loans in the Anniston metro worth $15.1M, at a $1,215,500 median per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. Early read: acquisitions are unusually prominent — 13% of loans went to buying existing washes (vs. 8% nationally), a sign operators are trading sites more than building new ones.
- Calhoun 8
- New build / open13% · $3.0M
- Acquisition13% · $4.2M
- Expansion / improvement63% · $482K
- Unclassified13% · $111K
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About the Anniston car wash market
How many car washes are in the Anniston metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Anniston metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Anniston?
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What is the average customer rating in the Anniston car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Anniston?
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What kinds of car washes does Anniston have?
The format mix in Anniston reads as a typical mid-market US metro — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format: Full Service at 4.70★ across 1 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.57★ (6 locations).
50 (84.7%) of 59 locations are unclassified — small independents whose websites don't surface enough signal for format assignment. Format-level statistics describe the classified subset only.
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unclassified | 50 | 84.7% | 734 | 4.23 | 0.88% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 10.2% | 3,789 | 4.57 | 1.48% | 15.2% |
| Detail Shop | 1 | 1.7% | 64 | 5.00 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 1.7% | 432 | 4.70 | 0.83% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 1.7% | 21 | 4.40 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Anniston car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Anniston tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 23 qualifying locations: -0.10 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $52K AGI/return, 4.34★.
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 | 2 | 22 | 1,127 | 4.49 | Full Service (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 5 | 25 | 3,879 | 4.55 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $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; 22/4.49★ 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 Anniston car washes?
6 chains run sites in Anniston; 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 | Xtreme Car Wash #3 | 2 | 542 | 4.33 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 387 | 4.40 | 2.63% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Sud Stop Car Wash | 1 | 546 | 4.80 | 0.92% | 9.8% | 0.92% |
| 4 | Raindrop Car Wash - Clay | 1 | 860 | 4.60 | 1.14% | 15.2% | 0.91% |
| 5 | bp | 1 | 21 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Dirty Dog's Car Wash Tampa | 1 | 1,454 | 4.60 | 1.99% | 20.0% | 0.40% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Anniston?
Counties of the Anniston CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Calhoun County is the most density-concentrated. Reading the rating column tells you whether quality is uniform across the metro or whether specific counties pull in either direction.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Calhoun County | 59 | 100.0% | 5,040 | 4.54 |
What do customers love and complain about in Anniston?
Seven aspects, 1,720 reviews, 59 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Anniston's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Anniston metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Anniston MSA is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Dirty Dog's Car Wash Oxford 1826 US Hwy 78 E | Oxford, AL | Express Tunnel | Dirty Dog's Car Wash Tampa | 4.6 | 1,454 | $64K |
| Raindrop Car Wash - Oxford 41 Larry Gardner Dr | Anniston, AL | Express Tunnel | Raindrop Car Wash - Clay | 4.6 | 860 | $75K |
| Sud Stop Car Wash 620 Pelham Rd S | Jacksonville, AL | Express Tunnel | Sud Stop Car Wash | 4.8 | 546 | $59K |
| Hometown Car Wash 715 S Quintard Ave | Anniston, AL | Full Service | — | 4.7 | 432 | $37K |
| Mister Car Wash 65 Plaza Ln | Oxford, AL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 387 | $64K |
| Xtreme Car Wash #2 5606 McClellan Blvd | Anniston, AL | Express Tunnel | Xtreme Car Wash #3 | 4.3 | 355 | $45K |
| Xtreme Car Wash #3 1011 Pelham Rd S | Jacksonville, AL | Express Tunnel | Xtreme Car Wash #3 | 4.4 | 187 | $59K |
| Oxford Super Wash 1929 US-78 | Oxford, AL | — | — | 4.0 | 135 | $64K |
| Kolby's Kar Wash 1798 Friendship Rd | Oxford, AL | — | — | 4.1 | 101 | $64K |
| Ollie's Car Wash 539 W 49th St | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.2 | 89 | $45K |
| Neat & Clean 100% Hand Car Wash 1930 Noble St | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.7 | 73 | $37K |
| Slicked Out Detailing 103 West Dr | Piedmont, AL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 64 | $55K |
| Ollie's Car Wash 811 Pelham Rd S | Jacksonville, AL | — | — | 4.2 | 61 | $59K |
| Wash Tech Car Wash 539 W 49th St | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.3 | 51 | $45K |
| Ultimate Touch Detail Shop 1201 S Quintard Ave | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.5 | 33 | $37K |
| Oasis Car Wash 510 Memorial Dr | Piedmont, AL | — | — | 3.3 | 23 | $55K |
| The Shop 1128 Ferron Ave | Anniston, AL | — | — | 5.0 | 22 | $37K |
| bp 3400 Choccolocco Rd | Anniston, AL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.4 | 21 | $75K |
| Valley Car Wash & Auto Service 3501 US-431 | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.1 | 18 | $45K |
| Complete Car Wash 217 S Noble St | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.1 | 15 | $37K |
| Executive Detail Shop 404 S Wilmer Ave | Anniston, AL | — | — | 4.5 | 14 | $37K |
| Invictus Detailing | , AL | — | — | 5.0 | 13 | — |
| J B's Quality Car Care 101 Pelham Rd S | Jacksonville, AL | — | — | 3.7 | 13 | $59K |
| C Sparkling Clean Car Wash 1813 Noble St | Anniston, AL | — | — | 3.9 | 10 | $37K |
| Saybo's Car Wash | Alexandria, AL | — | — | 2.4 | 9 | — |
Compare Anniston to other AL 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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Car wash inventory for the Anniston-Oxford, AL CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 1 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 1,720 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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