Farmington Car Wash Market Analysis
Farmington, NM
Data updated · June 9, 2026
3,582 Google reviews across 59 car washes in 1 Farmington counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 59
- 92% independent
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Mister Car Wash (3 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.09★
- -0.32 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.8%
- 2.4× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 10.4%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 63% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 121,178
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 41,053
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,054
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 59 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 54 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.09★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 3,582 Google reviews, 627 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
59 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Farmington's car wash market reads as US-metro-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 59 locations across 2 chains and 54 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.09★, damage 3.8%, cancel friction 10.4%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.81/+1). 3,582 Google reviews drive the analysis, 627 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Farmington
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Farmington metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Farmington metro run about 25% below the national average ($24,344 vs. $32,560), across 11 employer establishments and roughly 25 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 Farmington car wash market
How many car washes are in the Farmington metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Farmington metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Farmington?
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What is the average customer rating in the Farmington car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Farmington?
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What kinds of car washes does Farmington 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. Farmington's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.50★ across 1 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.04★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 8.5% | 2,171 | 4.04 | 6.31% | 9.3% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 1.7% | 24 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 1.7% | 59 | 4.30 | 5.88% | — |
| Detail Shop | 1 | 1.7% | 121 | 4.50 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Farmington car washes?
22 Farmington car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 22 qualifying locations: -0.17 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $63K AGI/return, 3.96★.
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 | 2 | 2 | 64 | 4.21 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 3 | 32 | 2,734 | 4.07 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 4 | 634 | 3.96 | Express Tunnel (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 2/4.21★ 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 Farmington car washes?
2 chains alongside 54 independents make up Farmington's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 1,913 | 3.99 | 5.79% | 9.4% | 2.11% |
| 2 | Champion Xpress Carwash | 2 | 258 | 4.45 | 7.09% | — | 0.79% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Farmington?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 1 counties of the Farmington, NM CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Juan County | 60 | 101.7% | 3,582 | 4.09 |
What do customers love and complain about in Farmington?
The aspect grid below summarizes 627 AI-extracted reviews across 59 Farmington 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 Farmington metro?
59 car washes are tracked in Farmington; 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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| Mister Car Wash 1309 W Main St | Farmington, NM | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 816 | $60K |
| Mister Car Wash 2609 E 20th St | Farmington, NM | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.9 | 623 | $60K |
| Mister Car Wash 5530 E Main St | Farmington, NM | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.9 | 474 | $93K |
| Champion Xpress Carwash 1520 W Aztec Blvd | Aztec, NM | Express Tunnel | Champion Xpress Carwash | 4.7 | 222 | $59K |
| Car Wash 912 N 1st St | Bloomfield, NM | — | — | 3.7 | 171 | $54K |
| King Hand Car Wash & Detail 4550 Rowe Ave | Farmington, NM | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 121 | $93K |
| Crazy Legs Car Wash 407 S Behrend Ave | Farmington, NM | — | — | 4.6 | 101 | $60K |
| Roadrunner Car Wash 1616 W Aztec Blvd | Aztec, NM | — | — | 3.2 | 93 | $59K |
| Town & Country Car Wash 2251 San Juan Blvd | Farmington, NM | — | — | 3.7 | 76 | $60K |
| Kiko's Car Wash 2348 E 20th St | Farmington, NM | — | — | 4.2 | 64 | $60K |
| Prettyboy Detail LLC | , NM | — | — | 4.8 | 62 | — |
| Lj's Car Wash 3572 US-64 | Waterflow, NM | — | — | 4.3 | 59 | $43K |
| Monkey Shine Car Wash 1600 E 20th St | Farmington, NM | Full Service | — | 4.3 | 59 | $60K |
| Valle Grande Car Wash Inc 1134 Camina Entrada | Farmington, NM | — | — | 3.6 | 55 | $60K |
| Unique Detail & Hydraulics LLC 1932 E Main St | Farmington, NM | — | — | 4.3 | 54 | $60K |
| Road Runner Car Wash 800 W Broadway | Farmington, NM | — | — | 3.9 | 50 | $60K |
| Blast Off Carwash 2303 W Main St | Farmington, NM | — | — | 3.7 | 46 | $60K |
| Champion Xpress Carwash 2940 E Main St | Farmington, NM | Express Tunnel | Champion Xpress Carwash | 2.9 | 36 | $93K |
| Roadrunner Mini Storage 1600 W Broadway Ave | Bloomfield, NM | — | — | 3.3 | 33 | $54K |
| Splash N Dash 330 A E 20th St | Farmington, NM | — | — | 4.0 | 30 | $60K |
| Aztec Car Wash 625 NE Aztec Blvd | Aztec, NM | — | — | 4.2 | 25 | $59K |
| Classic Car Wash 104 Vine Ave | Farmington, NM | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.1 | 24 | $60K |
| Final Coat Detailing | , NM | — | — | 4.8 | 23 | — |
| Lujan's Quality Carpet Cleaning | , NM | — | — | 4.9 | 18 | — |
| Care Auto Detailing 1100 E Murray Dr | Farmington, NM | — | — | 4.1 | 14 | $60K |
Compare Farmington to other NM 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). Farmington car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/farmington
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"Farmington car wash market analysis." WashIndex, Jun. 9, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/farmington.
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Car wash inventory for the Farmington, NM 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 627 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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