Jackson Car Wash Market Analysis
Jackson, TN
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Jackson's car wash market built from 6,667 Google reviews across 103 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 103
- 89% independent
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Take 5 Car Wash (3 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.47★
- +0.06 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.4%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 15.4%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 47% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 180,844
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 71,459
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,756
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.1
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 103 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 92 independents across 4 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.47★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 6,667 Google reviews, 2,255 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
103 car wash locations across 4 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Jackson — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 103 locations across 7 chains and 92 independents, distributed across 4 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.47★, damage 1.4%, cancel friction 15.4%. Staff strong (0.86); equipment reliability weak (-0.42). 6,667 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,255 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Jackson
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Jackson metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Jackson metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 80% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 18, now employing about 55 people at a $30,939 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 Jackson car wash market
How many car washes are in the Jackson metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Jackson metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Jackson?
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What is the average customer rating in the Jackson car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Jackson?
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What kinds of car washes does Jackson have?
The format mix in Jackson 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: Detail Shop at 4.63★ across 5 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 8 | 7.8% | 5,141 | 4.49 | 1.62% | 15.5% |
| Detail Shop | 5 | 4.9% | 159 | 4.63 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 1.9% | 37 | 4.12 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 1.0% | 64 | 4.50 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 1.0% | 114 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Jackson car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Jackson tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 29 qualifying locations: -0.33 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $62K AGI/return, 4.44★.
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 | 1 | 15 | 1,065 | 4.47 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 11 | 34 | 641 | 4.42 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 19 | 4,756 | 4.45 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 15/4.47★ 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 Jackson car washes?
7 chains run sites in Jackson; 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 | Take 5 Car Wash | 3 | 3,951 | 4.46 | 1.51% | 14.1% | 0.41% |
| 2 | Parrot's Car Wash | 2 | 359 | 4.50 | 3.31% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | bp | 2 | 37 | 4.12 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Svt Auto Detail | 1 | 12 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Wash N' Glo Car Wash | 1 | 106 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Wash 37062 | 1 | 523 | 4.50 | 2.36% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 202 | 4.90 | 0.66% | — | 0.00% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Jackson?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 4 counties of the Jackson, TN CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.44★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Madison County | 59 | 57.3% | 5,950 | 4.47 |
| Gibson County | 22 | 21.4% | 479 | 4.36 |
| Crockett County | 14 | 13.6% | 159 | 4.80 |
| Chester County | 9 | 8.7% | 79 | 3.90 |
What do customers love and complain about in Jackson?
Seven aspects, 2,255 reviews, 103 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Jackson's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Jackson metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Jackson. The full set of 103 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Take 5 Car Wash 2729 N Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,639 | $80K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 355 Oil Well Rd | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,434 | $80K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 60 Chloe Pl | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 878 | $80K |
| Wash 38301 1611 S Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Wash 37062 | 4.5 | 523 | $48K |
| Parrot's Car Wash 101 W University Pkwy | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Parrot's Car Wash | 4.5 | 318 | $80K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 788 Vann Dr | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.9 | 202 | $80K |
| Wizard Car Wash 1367 S Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | — | — | 4.1 | 187 | $48K |
| Morton's Trailer Washout 103 Providence Rd | Denmark, TN | — | — | 4.7 | 145 | $50K |
| Father And Son Mobile Detailing, LLC | , TN | — | — | 5.0 | 124 | — |
| Chrome Zone 2164 Hwy 70 E | Jackson, TN | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 114 | $80K |
| Wash N' Glo Car Wash 15443 S 1st St | Milan, TN | Express Tunnel | Wash N' Glo Car Wash | 4.8 | 106 | $61K |
| Amigo's Detail Shop and Mobile Pressure Washing Service 142 Lexington Ave | Jackson, TN | — | — | 4.9 | 99 | $48K |
| Bumper 2 Bumper Car Wash 5120 S 1st St | Milan, TN | — | — | 3.9 | 93 | $61K |
| Car wash | Medina, TN | — | — | 4.0 | 89 | $85K |
| s&s car wash 3426 Eastend Dr | Humboldt, TN | — | — | 4.3 | 71 | $59K |
| TRIPLE SHINE CARWASH 209 N Church Ave | Henderson, TN | — | — | 3.7 | 66 | $58K |
| Big Willie’s Wash 1587 North Pkwy | Jackson, TN | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.5 | 64 | $48K |
| Sonnys Auto Detailing 148 Airways Blvd | Jackson, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 51 | $48K |
| Corey's Carwash & Detail 306 Lexington Ave | Jackson, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 42 | $48K |
| Parrot’s Car Wash 1781 S Highland Ave | Jackson, TN | Express Tunnel | Parrot's Car Wash | 4.5 | 41 | $48K |
| Rocky Top Car Wash 1014 N Main St | Milan, TN | — | — | 4.6 | 35 | $61K |
| Finish Perfect 273 Pleasant Hill Rd | Humboldt, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 35 | $59K |
| Chester Street Car Wash & Laundry | Jackson, TN | — | — | 4.4 | 31 | — |
| Charjean Carwash 18a Charjean Dr | Jackson, TN | — | — | 3.9 | 25 | $80K |
| Amoco 1400 Hwy 70 E #1 | Jackson, TN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.7 | 23 | $80K |
Compare Jackson 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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Car wash inventory for the Jackson, TN 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 2,255 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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