Quality-outlier car wash market analysis for Jacksonville: 1,118 sites, 116,365 reviews, sharp deviation from chain-category norms. Per-operator damage attribution, format-level quality decomposition, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
Locations
1,118
91% independent
Chains
24
lead: GATE Express Carwash (21 sites)
Avg rating
4.62★
+0.21 vs national MSA median
Damage rate
0.8%
1.8× below national norm
Cancel friction
8.4%
Top format
detail shop
44% of classified inventory
Median single wash
$10
range $4.99–$28.60
Median unlimited
$32.99/mo
cheapest $12.99/mo at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax
Market Quality snapshot
Population
1,645,707
ACS 2023 5-year
Households
642,847
ACS 2023 5-year
Residents per wash
1,472
1.3× denser than the national MSA median
Express tunnels per 10K households
0.8
in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
1,118 car wash locations operated by 24 chains and 1,019 independents across 5 counties.
Reviewer-reported damage rate of 0.8% runs 1.8× below the 1.6% US-metro median.
Built from 116,365 Google reviews, 46,840 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
1,118 car wash locations across 5 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Locations
1,118
Chains
24
+ 1,019 independents
Reviews
116K
Avg Rating
4.62
Damage Rate
0.84%
Median AGI/return
$77K
location-weighted
Executive Read
Jacksonville stands out for operational-quality signals that are below the typical US metro norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 0.8% across 1,118 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. Reading the operator-level breakdown below shows which segments drive the outlier signal.
Headline rating 4.62★; damage 0.8% (vs. 1.6% peer median). Staff runs positive (0.92); equipment reliability runs negative (-0.24). Per-location breakdown shows which specific sites pull the metro-wide damage rate in either direction.
Published pricing across the 52 of 1132 Jacksonville locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $4.99–$28.60), median unlimited membership $32.99/month (range $12.99–$89.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $12.99/mo at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax (Basic Wash).
What does a car wash cost in the Jacksonville metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Jacksonville metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 52 of 1132
tracked locations have usable published pricing
(5% coverage).
Single Wash
$10
median · range $4.99–$28.60 · 23 locations tracked
Unlimited Membership
$32.99 per month
median · range $12.99–$89.99 per month · 43 programs tracked
Cheapest unlimited memberships in Jacksonville
1
Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax Basic Wash
$12.99 per mo
2
Heavy Hitters USA Pro
$15 per mo
3
Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change Bronze Exterior
$19.95 per mo
4
Castaway Car Wash Deluxe Monthly
$21.99 per mo
5
Whistle Express Car Wash JUST THE ESSENTIALS
$23 per mo
Cheapest single car washes in Jacksonville
1
Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change Bronze Exterior
$4.99
2
Heavy Hitters USA Starter
$6
3
Prime Car Wash Express Wash
$8
4
Beaches Car Wash & Gift Gallery Good Value Wash
$8
5
Beaches Car Wash & Gift Gallery Good Value Wash
$8
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.
Official industry footprint · BLS QCEW 2024
The car wash industry in the Jacksonville metro, officially
the Jacksonville metro has 78 car-wash employer establishments employing about 811 people, at a $32,761 average annual wage.
Employer establishments
78
NAICS 811192 · 2024
Industry jobs
811
private, annual avg
Avg annual wage
$32,761
per employee
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.
SBA Lending · FY2010–present
Car wash financing in the Jacksonville metro
Build-out market
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 24 car-wash loans in the Jacksonville metro worth $31.0M, at a $977,000 median per car wash and a 10.0% charge-off rate. Early read: the mix tilts toward new construction — 50% of loans funded brand-new washes — pointing to a market where operators are still adding supply.
SBA loans
24
FY2010–2026
Total approved
$31.0M
7(a) + 504
Median loan
$977K
per car wash
Charge-off rate
10.0%
of 10 resolved
SBA car-wash loans approved per fiscal year
FY2026 annualized from its first 6 months.
Loans by county
Duval20
Clay4
What the loans fund · estimated from loan terms
New build / open50% · $1.3M
Expansion / improvement42% · $675K
Working capital4% · $5K
Unclassified4% · $250K
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
About the Jacksonville car wash market
How many car washes are in the Jacksonville metro?
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There are 1,118 car wash locations across the Jacksonville, FL CBSA, spanning 5 counties.
What is the best-rated car wash in the Jacksonville metro?
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Crème de la Crème La Diamond Shine LLC in , FL is the highest-rated car wash in the Jacksonville metro at 5.0★ across 387 Google reviews (filtering to locations with at least 100 reviews).
Which car wash chain has the most locations in Jacksonville?
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GATE Express Carwash has the most locations in the Jacksonville metro with 21 sites, followed by LUV Car Wash (15 sites). The metro has 24 multi-location operators in total, alongside 1,019 independent or single-location sites.
What is the average customer rating in the Jacksonville car wash market?
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The review-weighted average rating across all 1,118 car washes in the Jacksonville metro is 4.62★, based on 116,365 Google reviews processed through WashIndex's customer-experience pipeline.
What is the typical household income near car washes in Jacksonville?
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Across the ZIP codes containing the Jacksonville metro's car washes, the location-weighted median IRS-reported AGI per tax return is $77K (tax year 2022) — a rough proxy for trade-area household income.
How much does a car wash cost in Jacksonville?
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Single-wash prices across the Jacksonville car wash market range from $4.99 to $28.60, with a median of $10 across 23 locations that publish their pricing. The cheapest single car wash in the metro is $4.99 at Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change (Bronze Exterior). Pricing data is captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent.
How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Jacksonville?
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Unlimited car wash memberships in the Jacksonville metro range from $12.99/month to $89.99/month, with a median of $32.99/month across 43 programs tracked. The cheapest unlimited membership is $12.99/month at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax (Basic Wash); the most expensive tracked is $89.99/month at Island Time Car Wash Jacksonville Florida (EXECUTIVE EXTERIOR).
What is the cheapest car wash in Jacksonville?
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The cheapest single car wash in the Jacksonville metro is $4.99 at Car Spa Car Wash, Detail, & Oil Change (Bronze Exterior tier). For ongoing customers, the cheapest unlimited membership is $12.99/month at Ms. Bee'z Wash 'n Wax (Basic Wash) — a break-even of roughly 1.3 washes per month at the metro's median single-wash price of $10.
01Format Mix
What kinds of car washes does Jacksonville have?
Format mix in Jacksonville isn't where the distinctive story sits — the damage/quality signal at the top of the page is. Still, the per-format breakdown matters because damage rates concentrate inside specific formats (express tunnels typically run highest, hand-finished detail shops typically run lowest).
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.77★ across 72 locations.
Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 3.83★ (25 locations).
956 (85.5%)
of 1,118 locations are unclassified — small independents whose websites don't surface enough signal for format assignment. Format-level statistics describe the classified subset only.
Format
Locations
% of MSA
Reviews
Avg Rating
Damage Rate
Cancel Friction
Unclassified
956
85.5%
38,710
4.61
0.63%
11.1%
Detail Shop
72
6.4%
7,227
4.77
0.67%
7.1%
Express Tunnel
54
4.8%
58,724
4.71
0.93%
7.7%
In-Bay Automatic
25
2.2%
2,386
3.83
1.61%
0.0%
Full Service
11
1.0%
9,318
4.28
1.19%
9.5%
02Income & Demographics
What is the household income near Jacksonville car washes?
In a quality-outlier market like Jacksonville, the rating-vs-income relationship matters mainly as an attribution check. Pearson r below: if it's small, the quality story is about operators; if it's meaningful, neighborhood matters.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 283 qualifying locations: 0.06 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income.
Scatter mean: $89K AGI/return, 4.46★.
Detail Shop Express Tunnel In-Bay Automatic Full Service
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
5
53
7,711
4.71
Detail Shop (6)
$50K – $75K
22
189
41,301
4.58
Detail Shop (22)
$75K – $100K
11
130
30,673
4.58
Detail Shop (24)
$100K – $150K
11
114
21,234
4.64
Detail Shop (18)
$150K+
4
29
6,035
4.51
Express Tunnel (5)
29 car washes in the highest-income tier at 4.51★ vs. 53 in the lowest at 4.71★. The interesting question for a quality-outlier market like Jacksonville is whether the damage/rating signal correlates with income — the per-tier breakdown is the cleanest cut on that.
03Dominant Chains
Who operates the most Jacksonville car washes?
In a quality-outlier market like Jacksonville, the chain rank below is the cleanest attribution cut: which chains pull the metro damage rate up vs. down, and which sit in line. The damage and cancel columns are the columns to read here.
Which counties have the most car washes in Jacksonville?
Reading the county breakdown below in a quality-outlier market is mainly an attribution exercise: does the metro's elevated damage signal concentrate in specific counties, or is it spread across them?
Cross-county rating dispersion: 1.43★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
What do customers love and complain about in Jacksonville?
The aspect grid below is where Jacksonville's quality-outlier signal decomposes into specific friction points. Each aspect score is (positive − negative) / total, ranging -1…+1.
Staff+0.92
Wash Quality+0.82
Facility Cleanliness+0.80
Wait Time+0.63
Per-Wash Price+0.44
Membership Value+0.34
Equipment Working-0.24
06All Locations
Where are all the car washes in the Jacksonville metro?
1,118 sites in Jacksonville; the top of the list below by review volume. Read alongside the elevated damage and quality signals above — the highest-volume sites usually anchor the metro-wide numbers.
Data as of 2026-09-26.
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BibTeX
@misc{washindex_car_wash_markets_jacksonville_2026,
title = {{Jacksonville car wash market analysis}},
author = {{WashIndex}},
year = {2026},
month = {Sep},
url = {https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/jacksonville},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
}
About this analysis
Car wash inventory for the Jacksonville, FL CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the
official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 5 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 46,840 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.
The free WashIndex platform shows every Jacksonville car wash on an interactive map, with the same review-derived
signals and demographic overlays that power this analysis. Filter by format, drive-time, or operator and compare any
location head-to-head with its true competitive set.