Clarksville Car Wash Market Analysis
Clarksville, TN-KY
Data updated · June 9, 2026
18,992 Google reviews across 145 Clarksville car washes — a express tunnel-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 145
- 86% independent
- Chains
- 11
- lead: Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash (3 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.52★
- +0.11 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 14.9%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 63% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 328,626
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 121,182
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,266
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 145 car wash locations operated by 11 chains and 125 independents across 4 counties.
- Express tunnel dominates: 62.5% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 18,992 Google reviews, 6,192 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
145 car wash locations across 4 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Clarksville's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward express tunnel. 62.5% of formally-classified locations operate as express tunnel; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how express tunnel performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.52★; damage runs 1.6%. The dominant express tunnel averages 4.42★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.84/+1). 18,992 Google reviews back the analysis, 6,192 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the top car wash chains in Clarksville
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Clarksville metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Clarksville metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 24% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 21, now employing about 123 people at a $23,980 average wage.
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 Clarksville car wash market
How many car washes are in the Clarksville metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Clarksville metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Clarksville?
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What is the average customer rating in the Clarksville car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Clarksville?
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What kinds of car washes does Clarksville have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 20 of the 145 car washes in Clarksville run as express tunnel. The mini-table below shows how the rest of the market splits.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.73★ across 10 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.42★ (20 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 20 | 13.8% | 8,635 | 4.42 | 2.04% | 15.2% |
| Detail Shop | 10 | 6.9% | 856 | 4.73 | 0.68% | 33.3% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 0.7% | 78 | 4.00 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 0.7% | 21 | 4.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Clarksville car washes?
Because Clarksville is express tunnel-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 59 qualifying locations: -0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $59K AGI/return, 4.36★.
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 | 3 | 38 | 6,572 | 4.55 | Express Tunnel (8) |
| $50K – $75K | 5 | 46 | 9,054 | 4.51 | Express Tunnel (7) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 12 | 2,981 | 4.47 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes at the top income tier (0.00★) vs. 38 at the bottom (4.55★). Express tunnels concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Clarksville car washes?
11 chains compete in Clarksville, with the top names typically being heavy express tunnel operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 3 | 932 | 3.94 | 8.18% | — | 0.91% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 1,637 | 4.35 | 4.82% | 8.0% | 1.20% |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 2 | 747 | 4.66 | 1.28% | 20.8% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 95 | 4.12 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 2,903 | 4.59 | 0.99% | 15.8% | 0.46% |
| 6 | Shell | 2 | 39 | 3.56 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Washtopia | 2 | 519 | 4.42 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Finish Line Car Wash | 1 | 314 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Cheetah Clean Auto Wash | 1 | 338 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Whistle Express Car Wash | 1 | 299 | 4.60 | 1.15% | 11.1% | 0.77% |
| 11 | Whitecap Car Wash | 1 | 211 | 4.80 | 2.46% | — | 0.00% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Clarksville?
The county table below distributes Clarksville's 145 car washes across its 4 counties. Cross-county rating variance is generally narrow in format-dominated markets — the format itself sets expectations.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.47★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Montgomery County | 104 | 71.7% | 16,444 | 4.56 |
| Christian County | 35 | 24.1% | 2,238 | 4.30 |
| Trigg County | 6 | 4.1% | 121 | 4.36 |
| Stewart County | 4 | 2.8% | 189 | 4.09 |
What do customers love and complain about in Clarksville?
6,192 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. express tunnel's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are all the car washes in the Clarksville metro?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Clarksville's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as express tunnel.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Jenkins & Wynne Ford, Honda, & Lincoln 2655 Trenton Rd | Clarksville, TN | — | — | 4.6 | 4,904 | $58K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 1828 Tiny Town Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,868 | $50K |
| Fort Campbell Auto Sales 2771 Fort Campbell Blvd | Clarksville, TN | — | — | 4.9 | 1,146 | $50K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 2200 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,035 | $88K |
| Mister Car Wash 2640 Wilma Rudolph Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 742 | $58K |
| Turtle's Truck Wash 140 J W Dickson Dr | Oak Grove, KY | — | — | 4.5 | 550 | $40K |
| Mister Car Wash 1820 Wilma Rudolph Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 501 | $58K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 1768 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.7 | 470 | $88K |
| Jerry's Express Car Wash 2835 Fort Campbell Blvd | Hopkinsville, KY | Express Tunnel | — | 4.3 | 455 | $56K |
| Mister Car Wash 30 Dover Crossing Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 394 | $50K |
| Washtopia 209 Providence Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Washtopia | 4.5 | 378 | $50K |
| EZ Kleen Car Wash 14857 Fort Campbell Blvd | Oak Grove, KY | Express Tunnel | Cheetah Clean Auto Wash | 3.9 | 338 | $40K |
| Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash 2159 Fort Campbell Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 4.0 | 327 | $50K |
| Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash 1992 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 4.1 | 321 | $88K |
| Finish Line Car Wash 2623 Fort Campbell Blvd | Hopkinsville, KY | Express Tunnel | Finish Line Car Wash | 4.3 | 314 | $56K |
| Whistle Express Car Wash 2530 Pea Ridge Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Whistle Express Car Wash | 4.6 | 299 | $58K |
| Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash 370 Warfield Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 3.7 | 284 | $88K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 4089 Fort Campbell Blvd | Hopkinsville, KY | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 277 | $56K |
| APA DETAILING 315 Dover Rd Suite B | Clarksville, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 243 | $50K |
| Island Auto Detail 2432 US-41A BYP | Clarksville, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 223 | $88K |
| Whitecap Car Wash 1606 Haynes St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Whitecap Car Wash | 4.8 | 211 | $88K |
| NCW Car Wash 3871 Trenton Rd | Clarksville, TN | — | — | 3.9 | 208 | $58K |
| American Car Wash 1695 Fort Campbell Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 185 | $50K |
| Prestige Auto Care 1727 Ridge Runner Ct | Clarksville, TN | — | — | 4.9 | 169 | $50K |
| CWRAPS - Ceramic Pro Elite Dealer 955 Commerce St | Clarksville, TN | — | — | 4.9 | 163 | $58K |
Compare Clarksville to other TN 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). Clarksville car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/clarksville
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Car wash inventory for the Clarksville, TN-KY CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 4 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 6,192 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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