Bloomington Car Wash Market Analysis
Bloomington, IL
Data updated · June 9, 2026
8,017 Google reviews across 103 car washes in 1 Bloomington counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 103
- 84% independent
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Circle K (6 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.41★
- near national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 15.9%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 29% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $22
- range $11–$28.60
- Median unlimited
- $24/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at On Track Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 170,882
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 69,072
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,659
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.0
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 103 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 87 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.41★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 8,017 Google reviews, 2,191 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
103 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Bloomington reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 7 chains compete alongside 87 independents — typical mix for a market of 103 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 2,191 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.41★; damage 1.5%; membership-cancel friction 15.9%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.80/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 8 of 103 Bloomington locations with menus available: median single car wash $22 (range $11–$28.60), median unlimited membership $24/month (range $10–$29.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $10/mo at On Track Car Wash (UNLIMITED MONTHLY WASHES).
See the top car wash chains in Bloomington
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Bloomington metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Bloomington metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 8 of 103 tracked locations have usable published pricing (8% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On Track Car Wash UNLIMITED MONTHLY WASHES | $10 per mo |
| 2 | Parkway Auto Laundry Experience - Exterior | $20.95 per mo |
| 3 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24 per mo |
| 4 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24 per mo |
| 5 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $29.99 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $11 |
| 2 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $11 |
| 3 | On Track Car Wash BASIC | $14 |
| 4 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $22 |
| 5 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $22 |
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.
The car wash industry in the Bloomington metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Bloomington metro run about 16% below the national average ($27,252 vs. $32,560), across 5 employer establishments and roughly 47 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 Bloomington car wash market
How many car washes are in the Bloomington metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Bloomington metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Bloomington?
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What is the average customer rating in the Bloomington car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Bloomington?
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How much does a car wash cost in Bloomington?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Bloomington?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Bloomington?
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What kinds of car washes does Bloomington have?
Format counts below split Bloomington's 103 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: Detail Shop at 4.61★ across 7 locations. Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 2.62★ (6 locations).
79 (76.7%) of 103 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 |
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| Unclassified | 79 | 76.7% | 4,782 | 4.63 | 0.66% | 0.0% |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 6.8% | 491 | 4.61 | 0.55% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 7 | 6.8% | 1,707 | 4.18 | 5.36% | 16.2% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 6 | 5.8% | 163 | 2.62 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 1.9% | 98 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 1.9% | 776 | 3.90 | 3.23% | — |
What is the household income near Bloomington car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Bloomington tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 42 qualifying locations: -0.10 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $84K AGI/return, 4.07★.
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 | 2 | 18 | 1,855 | 4.34 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 6 | 33 | 2,645 | 4.30 | In-Bay Automatic (4) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 15 | 3,284 | 4.50 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ 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 Bloomington car washes?
7 chains run sites in Bloomington; 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 | Circle K | 6 | 163 | 2.62 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Rainstorm Car Wash | 4 | 992 | 3.92 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 606 | 4.52 | 2.65% | 10.6% | 1.59% |
| 4 | Super Wash | 1 | 19 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 5 | On Track Car Wash | 1 | 109 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 506 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 7 | S&S Paint & Body Inc. | 1 | 575 | 4.90 | 2.68% | — | 0.00% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Bloomington?
Counties of the Bloomington CBSA are listed below by car wash count. McLean 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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| McLean County | 103 | 100.0% | 8,017 | 4.41 |
What do customers love and complain about in Bloomington?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,191 AI-extracted reviews across 103 Bloomington car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are all the car washes in the Bloomington metro?
103 car washes are tracked in Bloomington; 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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| O'Brien Mitsubishi of Normal 600 Greenbriar Dr | Normal, IL | — | — | 4.7 | 1,412 | $80K |
| O'Brien Honda of Bloomington 1602 General Electric Rd | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 4.7 | 1,235 | $106K |
| S&S Paint & Body Inc. 2051 Ireland Grove Rd | Bloomington, IL | — | S&S Paint & Body Inc. | 4.9 | 575 | $106K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Bloomington, IL Exit 160, 408 Caroline St I-55 | Bloomington, IL | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.0 | 506 | $65K |
| Club Car Wash 2702 E Oakland Ave | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.5 | 490 | $106K |
| All About Auto 604 W Division St | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 4.8 | 453 | $65K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 814 N Main St | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 4.0 | 380 | $65K |
| Parkway Auto Laundry 1701 Morrissey Dr | Bloomington, IL | Full Service | — | 3.7 | 270 | $106K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 1850 E College Ave | Normal, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 3.9 | 252 | $80K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 2805 E Empire St | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 3.9 | 197 | $106K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 1601 N Main St | Normal, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 3.8 | 163 | $80K |
| Ziebart 2023 Ireland Grove Rd | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 150 | $106K |
| Perfection Auto & Detailing & Wheels 919 Thor Dr | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 4.1 | 140 | $129K |
| Jays Detailing Services | , IL | — | — | 5.0 | 135 | — |
| Club Car Wash 307 Greenbriar Dr | Normal, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.6 | 116 | $80K |
| Dirty Deeds Auto Wash 104 Wexford Ct | Normal, IL | — | — | 4.1 | 109 | $80K |
| On Track Car Wash 1509 E Vernon Ave | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | On Track Car Wash | 4.6 | 109 | $65K |
| Fort Jesse Car Wash 1420 Fort Jesse Rd | Normal, IL | — | — | 3.7 | 90 | $80K |
| StarWash Car Wash 1301 S Center St | Normal, IL | Self-Serve Bay | — | 3.6 | 79 | $80K |
| The Auto Protection Specialists 603 S Center St | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 78 | $65K |
| Bob Zook Auto Body Inc 411 Detroit Dr | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 4.8 | 74 | $106K |
| FA Detailing 1711 Pfitzer Rd | Normal, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 73 | $80K |
| M G Car Wash / QB Car Wash 1901 S Morris Ave | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 3.9 | 73 | $106K |
| Top Notch Detail Studio 1707 E Hamilton Rd Suite 2B | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 65 | $65K |
| Market Street Wash House Car Wash & Laundromat 708 W Market St | Bloomington, IL | — | — | 3.7 | 59 | $65K |
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Bloomington car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/bloomington
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Car wash inventory for the Bloomington, IL 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 2,191 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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