Greeley Car Wash Market Analysis
Greeley, CO
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Greeley's car wash market built from 12,557 Google reviews across 274 locations. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 274
- 90% independent
- Chains
- 13
- lead: Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th (5 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.27★
- -0.14 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.1%
- 1.3× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 17.8%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 37% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 340,711
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 120,019
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,243
- 1.6× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.1
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 274 car wash locations operated by 13 chains and 246 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.27★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 12,557 Google reviews, 3,563 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
274 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Greeley reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 274 locations across 13 chains and 246 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Customer-experience signals across 3,563 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.27★, damage 2.1%, cancel friction 17.8%. Staff strong (0.81); equipment reliability weak (-0.56). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the top car wash chains in Greeley
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Greeley metro, officially
High-wageCar-wash wages in the Greeley metro run about 13% above the national average ($36,785 vs. $32,560), across 31 employer establishments and roughly 234 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 Greeley metro
Consolidating marketSince 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 19 car-wash loans in the Greeley metro worth $20.2M, at a $635,000 median per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. Early read: acquisitions are unusually prominent — 32% of loans went to buying existing washes (vs. 8% nationally), a sign operators are trading sites more than building new ones.
- Weld 19
- New build / open26% · $2.1M
- Acquisition32% · $576K
- Expansion / improvement42% · $496K
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 Greeley car wash market
How many car washes are in the Greeley metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Greeley metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Greeley?
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What is the average customer rating in the Greeley car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Greeley?
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What kinds of car washes does Greeley have?
Format counts below split Greeley's 274 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 19 locations. Lowest-rated: Self-Serve Bay at 3.69★ (8 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 19 | 6.9% | 1,688 | 4.61 | 0.65% | 14.3% |
| Express Tunnel | 13 | 4.7% | 4,136 | 4.19 | 5.29% | 17.7% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 9 | 3.3% | 914 | 3.84 | 2.36% | 50.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 8 | 2.9% | 615 | 3.69 | 1.45% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 0.7% | 506 | 4.00 | 1.47% | — |
What is the household income near Greeley car washes?
Each ZIP in Greeley is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 86 qualifying locations: 0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $90K AGI/return, 4.18★.
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 | 4 | 37 | 2,839 | 4.33 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 11 | 52 | 5,155 | 4.21 | Self-Serve Bay (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 6 | 50 | 3,602 | 4.18 | Detail Shop (11) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Greeley car washes?
13 chains alongside 246 independents make up Greeley'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 5 | 569 | 3.89 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 3 | 2,404 | 4.15 | 5.83% | 10.5% | 3.40% |
| 3 | Conoco | 3 | 314 | 3.91 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 245 | 4.30 | 13.50% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Signal Car Wash at Loaf n Jug | 2 | 164 | 3.58 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Agfinity C-Store | 2 | 112 | 3.04 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Westside Carwash | 2 | 142 | 2.85 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Cobblestone Car Wash | 2 | 352 | 3.89 | 2.65% | — | 0.66% |
| 9 | Champion Xpress Carwash | 2 | 216 | 4.57 | 2.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 10 | Splash & Split - Car & RV Wash | 2 | 55 | 4.48 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Pure Finish | 1 | 73 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Garden City Washout | 1 | 162 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Monkey Shine Car Wash | 1 | 31 | 2.00 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Phillips 66 | 1 | 83 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Greeley?
Greeley's 274 car washes distribute across 1 counties. Weld County leads with 276 locations (100.7%). Cross-county rating dispersion is usually narrow at this scale.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Weld County | 276 | 100.7% | 12,557 | 4.27 |
What do customers love and complain about in Greeley?
The aspect grid below summarizes 3,563 AI-extracted reviews across 274 Greeley 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 Greeley metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Greeley. The full set of 274 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Breeze Thru Car Wash - Greeley 3417 W 28th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.2 | 1,717 | $76K |
| Car Toys Greeley 2859 35th Ave | Greeley, CO | — | — | 4.2 | 924 | $76K |
| Breeze Thru Car Wash - West Greeley 6913 W 10th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Breeze Thru Car Wash - Windsor | 4.0 | 628 | $76K |
| Mr. Dentless - Dent Repair, Detailing, Window Tinting & Coatings 1816 1st Ave | Greeley, CO | — | — | 5.0 | 462 | $53K |
| LONGMONT AUTO BODY AND GLASS 3766 Eureka Way # 1 | Frederick, CO | — | — | 4.8 | 353 | $147K |
| Del Camino Service Plaza and Truck Wash 10763 Turner Blvd | Longmont, CO | Full Service | — | 3.9 | 344 | $102K |
| Cobblestone Car Wash 1596 Main St | Windsor, CO | Express Tunnel | Cobblestone Car Wash | 3.9 | 342 | $121K |
| NoCo Auto Detailing and Window Tint 3018 W 10th St | Greeley, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 338 | $76K |
| RipTide Car & Pet Wash LLC 11033 Oak Meadows Blvd | Longmont, CO | — | — | 3.8 | 326 | $102K |
| Sunshine Car Wash 230 9th Ave | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.3 | 294 | $53K |
| Greeley Washout Inc 1140 E 8th St | Greeley, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 289 | $53K |
| Coal Creek Car Wash 700 Austin Ave | Erie, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 239 | $147K |
| Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th 1815 59th Ave | Greeley, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 4.2 | 235 | $76K |
| Classic Collision 1020 26th Ave | Greeley, CO | — | — | 4.6 | 225 | $76K |
| Bobs Car Wash 1630 Main St | Windsor, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 3.8 | 218 | $121K |
| Fort Lupton Car Wash 150 Rollie Ave | Fort Lupton, CO | Detail Shop | — | 3.7 | 202 | $74K |
| Bee Clean Auto Wash-39th 1005 39th Ave | Greeley, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 3.9 | 174 | $76K |
| Washway Car Wash 3509 W 4th St | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.8 | 168 | $76K |
| Preferred Cartage Washout Service 108 N 6th Ave | Greeley, CO | Full Service | Garden City Washout | 4.2 | 162 | $53K |
| Conoco 540 Main St | Hudson, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Conoco | 3.9 | 151 | $105K |
| Champion Xpress Carwash 120 Copper Pl. | Fort Lupton, CO | Express Tunnel | Champion Xpress Carwash | 4.6 | 151 | $74K |
| Arrowhead Mobile Auto Detailing Co 2609 Port St | Evans, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 144 | $54K |
| Show Shine Detail 979 Merchant Ct | Windsor, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 144 | $121K |
| Club Car Wash 3031 23rd Ave | Greeley, CO | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.3 | 141 | $53K |
| Bee Clean Auto Wash-37th 3425 37th St | Evans, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Bee Clean Auto Wash-59th | 3.5 | 135 | $54K |
Compare Greeley to other CO 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). Greeley car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/greeley
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Car wash inventory for the Greeley, CO 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 3,563 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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