Decatur Car Wash Market Analysis
Decatur, IL
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,026 Google reviews across 37 car washes in 1 Decatur counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 37
- 81% independent
- Chains
- 5
- lead: bp (2 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.20★
- -0.21 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.1%
- 1.3× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 13.9%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 38% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $22
- range $11–$22
- Median unlimited
- $29.99/mo
- cheapest $24/mo at Club Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 102,591
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 43,334
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,773
- 1.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.7
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 37 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 30 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.20★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 2,026 Google reviews, 439 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
37 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Decatur — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 5 chains compete alongside 30 independents — typical mix for a market of 37 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 439 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.20★, damage 2.1%, cancel friction 13.9%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.72). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 3 of 40 Decatur locations with menus available: median single car wash $22 (range $11–$22), median unlimited membership $29.99/month (range $24–$29.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $24/mo at Club Car Wash (Rookie).
See the top car wash chains in Decatur
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Decatur metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Decatur metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 3 of 40 tracked locations have usable published pricing (8% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Decatur | ||
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| 1 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24 per mo |
| 2 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $29.99 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Decatur | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $11 |
| 2 | 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.
About the Decatur car wash market
How many car washes are in the Decatur metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Decatur metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Decatur?
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What is the average customer rating in the Decatur car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Decatur?
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How much does a car wash cost in Decatur?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Decatur?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Decatur?
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What kinds of car washes does Decatur 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. Decatur's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.86★ across 3 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.28★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 3 | 8.1% | 128 | 4.86 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 8.1% | 1,091 | 4.28 | 5.23% | 10.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 5.4% | 80 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Decatur car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Decatur tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 18 qualifying locations: -0.22 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $67K AGI/return, 4.04★.
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 | 14 | 1,416 | 4.20 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 4 | 18 | 564 | 4.16 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 Decatur car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Decatur by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 2 | 133 | 3.84 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Rainstorm Car Wash | 2 | 562 | 3.98 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 12 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 529 | 4.60 | 4.84% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Shaner's 24 Hour Towing Inc. | 1 | 178 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Decatur?
Counties of the Decatur CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Macon 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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| Macon County | 40 | 108.1% | 2,026 | 4.20 |
What do customers love and complain about in Decatur?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. wash quality is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are all the car washes in the Decatur metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Decatur. The full set of 37 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Club Car Wash 275 E Pershing Rd | Decatur, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.6 | 529 | $55K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 3840 N Martin Luther King Jr Dr | Decatur, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 4.0 | 422 | $55K |
| Shaner's Towing and Tire Inc. 3696 Greenswitch Rd | Decatur, IL | — | Shaner's 24 Hour Towing Inc. | 3.8 | 178 | $55K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 4795 Aldi Dr | Decatur, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 3.9 | 140 | $78K |
| Billingsley 66 Car Wash 2015 Mount Zion Rd | Decatur, IL | — | — | 4.6 | 128 | $78K |
| Billingsley’s 66 Travel Center 301 N Wyckles Rd | Decatur, IL | — | — | 4.5 | 80 | $56K |
| bp 2185 E Wood St | Decatur, IL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.6 | 68 | $78K |
| BP 1725 S Franklin Street Rd | Decatur, IL | — | bp | 4.1 | 65 | $78K |
| Super Shine Car Wash 3241 N Woodford St | Decatur, IL | — | — | 3.2 | 58 | $55K |
| Hurricane car wash 1004 W Eldorado St | Decatur, IL | — | — | 2.9 | 49 | $56K |
| Dreamy Auto Detailing 258 Columbus Dr | Decatur, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 35 | $55K |
| Maroa Car Wash 199 E McKinley St | Maroa, IL | — | — | 4.6 | 33 | $78K |
| Southside Soap N Go 1275 W South Side Dr | Decatur, IL | — | — | 4.2 | 31 | $78K |
| Detailing Fever 1487 N Foster Ave | Decatur, IL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 27 | $55K |
| 5 Star Car Wash 1305 IL-121 | Mt Zion, IL | — | — | 3.1 | 16 | $92K |
| Car Wash 207 IL-121 | Warrensburg, IL | — | — | 2.8 | 13 | $72K |
| Circle K | Car Wash 3810 E William Street Rd | Decatur, IL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 4.3 | 12 | $78K |
| Diamondline Detailing | , IL | — | — | 5.0 | 10 | — |
| Sharp Auto Detail 2780 N Main St | Decatur, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 10 | $55K |
| Marathon Car Wash Touchless automatic 605 W Eldorado St | Decatur, IL | — | — | 4.8 | 9 | $56K |
| Car Wash | Decatur, IL | — | — | 4.0 | 7 | — |
| C J's Car Care 1120 N Main St | Decatur, IL | — | — | 3.1 | 7 | $78K |
| Fatts Detailing 1957 E Pershing Rd | Decatur, IL | — | — | 5.0 | 4 | $55K |
| J & J Auto Detailing 726 S Main St | Decatur, IL | — | — | 3.0 | 4 | $78K |
| In And Out Touch Less Car Wash 1725 S Franklin Street Rd | Decatur, IL | — | — | 3.0 | 2 | $78K |
Compare Decatur to other IL 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, May 22). Decatur car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/decatur-il
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Car wash inventory for the Decatur, 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 439 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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