Hammond Car Wash Market Analysis
Hammond, LA
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Hammond's car wash market built from 7,826 Google reviews across 79 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 79
- 87% independent
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Rocky's Premier Auto Wash (4 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 8.3%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 75% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 135,218
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 50,191
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,712
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.8
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 79 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 69 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.66★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 7,826 Google reviews, 2,067 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
79 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 79 car wash locations, Hammond matches the structural profile of the typical US metro of comparable size. 79 locations across 6 chains and 69 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.66★, damage 1.5%, cancel friction 8.3%. Staff strong (0.90); equipment reliability weak (-0.37). 7,826 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,067 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Hammond
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Hammond metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Hammond metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 46% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 19, now employing about 200 people at a $27,878 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 Hammond car wash market
How many car washes are in the Hammond metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Hammond metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Hammond?
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What is the average customer rating in the Hammond car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Hammond?
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What kinds of car washes does Hammond have?
The format mix in Hammond reads as a typical mid-market US metro — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format: Express Tunnel at 4.77★ across 9 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 3.90★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 9 | 11.4% | 6,220 | 4.77 | 1.49% | 8.4% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 2.5% | 63 | 4.90 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 1.3% | 704 | 3.90 | 1.85% | — |
What is the household income near Hammond car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Hammond tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 28 qualifying locations: -0.12 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $63K AGI/return, 4.37★.
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 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3.50 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 9 | 50 | 7,702 | 4.65 | Express Tunnel (9) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 3 sites, 3.50★. Across Hammond's 28 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Hammond car washes?
6 chains run sites in Hammond; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocky's Premier Auto Wash | 4 | 401 | 4.48 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 5,211 | 4.84 | 0.47% | 7.5% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Big Bad Ben Car Wash | 1 | 408 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Pelican Pointe Car Wash - Bedico | 1 | 105 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 704 | 3.90 | 1.85% | — | 0.93% |
| 6 | Circle K | 1 | 38 | 2.80 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Hammond?
Hammond's 79 car washes distribute across 1 counties. Tangipahoa County leads with 81 locations (102.5%). Cross-county rating dispersion is usually narrow at this scale.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa County | 81 | 102.5% | 7,826 | 4.66 |
What do customers love and complain about in Hammond?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,067 AI-extracted reviews across 79 Hammond 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 Hammond metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Hammond MSA is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take 5 Car Wash 1000 SW Railroad Ave | Hammond, LA | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.8 | 3,084 | $63K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 11193 LA-16 | Amite City, LA | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.9 | 2,127 | $57K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Hammond, LA Exit 40, 2102 SW Railroad Ave I-12 | Hammond, LA | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 3.9 | 704 | $63K |
| Big Bad Ben Car Wash 14201 US-190 | Hammond, LA | Express Tunnel | Big Bad Ben Car Wash | 4.5 | 408 | $61K |
| Rocky's Premier Auto Wash U.S. 51 Business, 1301 Veterans Ave. | Ponchatoula, LA | Express Tunnel | Rocky's Premier Auto Wash | 4.4 | 174 | $69K |
| Rocky's Premier Auto Wash 14584 W University Ave | Hammond, LA | Express Tunnel | Rocky's Premier Auto Wash | 4.5 | 168 | $61K |
| Pelican Pointe Car Wash - Bedico 28036 LA-22 | Ponchatoula, LA | Express Tunnel | Pelican Pointe Car Wash - Bedico | 4.6 | 105 | $69K |
| The Car Wash Depot 780 W Pine St | Ponchatoula, LA | Express Tunnel | — | 3.6 | 95 | $69K |
| Top Gun Aviation 405 Industrial Park Rd | Hammond, LA | — | — | 4.8 | 91 | $61K |
| Berry Clean Car Wash 18555 LA-22 | Ponchatoula, LA | — | — | 3.9 | 82 | $69K |
| Rocky’s Premier Auto Wash Amite 1115 W Oak St | Amite City, LA | Express Tunnel | Rocky's Premier Auto Wash | 4.7 | 47 | $57K |
| Ceramic Plus Mobile Protection and Detailing | , LA | — | — | 5.0 | 47 | — |
| Watkins Car Wash & Auto Detailing 15036 W Club Deluxe Rd | Hammond, LA | — | — | 4.6 | 45 | $63K |
| Wilmer Quick Stop 21526 LA-10 | Kentwood, LA | — | — | 4.5 | 42 | $55K |
| Amite Car Wash 401 NW Central Ave | Amite City, LA | — | — | 3.9 | 40 | $57K |
| Circle K 1920 SW Railroad Ave | Hammond, LA | — | Circle K | 2.8 | 38 | $63K |
| Loranger Car Wash 19367 LA-40 | Loranger, LA | — | — | 3.6 | 35 | $66K |
| Mystic Detailing 14077 Jones Rd | Ponchatoula, LA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 33 | $69K |
| Smartwash Pro 15004 Montecino Dr | Hammond, LA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 30 | $63K |
| Doug's Affordable Detail LLC 902 W Coleman Ave | Hammond, LA | — | — | 4.9 | 28 | $63K |
| Ponchatoula Auto Service And More 18397 LA-22 | Ponchatoula, LA | — | — | 4.8 | 22 | $69K |
| Shine Booster Detailing & Pressure Washing | , LA | — | — | 5.0 | 21 | — |
| Drivers Choice Car Wash N Morrison Blvd | Hammond, LA | — | — | 3.7 | 19 | $61K |
| Supreme Toyota of Hammond - Service 1415 S Morrison Blvd | Hammond, LA | — | — | 3.7 | 18 | $63K |
| Kaleb's Customs LLC 1607 N Morrison Blvd Suite B | Hammond, LA | — | — | 4.8 | 17 | $61K |
Compare Hammond to other LA 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). Hammond car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/hammond
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Car wash inventory for the Hammond, LA 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 2,067 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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