Joplin Car Wash Market Analysis
Joplin, MO-KS
Data updated · June 9, 2026
12,172 Google reviews across 133 car washes in 3 Joplin counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 133
- 88% independent
- Chains
- 10
- lead: Hurricane Carwash North (3 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.34★
- -0.07 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.6%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 14.6%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 56% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 202,258
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 78,178
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,521
- 1.3× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.8
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 133 car wash locations operated by 10 chains and 117 independents across 3 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.34★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 12,172 Google reviews, 2,967 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
133 car wash locations across 3 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Joplin — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 133 locations across 10 chains and 117 independents, distributed across 3 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.34★; damage 1.6%; membership-cancel friction 14.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.42). 12,172 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,967 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Joplin
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Joplin metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Joplin metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 14% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 16, now employing about 114 people at a $22,819 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 Joplin car wash market
How many car washes are in the Joplin metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Joplin metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Joplin?
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What is the average customer rating in the Joplin car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Joplin?
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What kinds of car washes does Joplin 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. Joplin's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.96★ across 6 locations. Lowest-rated: Self-Serve Bay at 3.22★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 14 | 10.5% | 5,205 | 4.34 | 2.14% | 14.7% |
| Detail Shop | 6 | 4.5% | 773 | 4.96 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 3 | 2.3% | 1,389 | 4.01 | 0.56% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 1.5% | 160 | 3.22 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Joplin car washes?
Each ZIP in Joplin 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 50 qualifying locations: 0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $62K AGI/return, 4.33★.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 13 | 81 | 12,078 | 4.33 | Express Tunnel (14) |
| $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 1 sites, 0.00★. Across Joplin's 50 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Joplin car washes?
10 chains run sites in Joplin; 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 |
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| 1 | Hurricane Carwash North | 3 | 360 | 4.28 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Otto Car Wash | 2 | 160 | 3.22 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 162 | 4.64 | 0.95% | — | 1.90% |
| 4 | In & Out Car Wash | 2 | 932 | 3.96 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Zips Car Wash | 2 | 2,038 | 4.32 | 1.99% | 19.7% | 1.14% |
| 6 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 816 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — | 0.57% |
| 7 | ZAK's Carwash | 1 | 121 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 8 | GO Car Wash | 1 | 286 | 4.80 | 1.52% | — | 1.01% |
| 9 | Truckomat of Kenly | 1 | 475 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 10 | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 1 | 836 | 4.80 | 0.50% | 7.1% | 0.83% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Joplin?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 3 counties of the Joplin, MO-KS CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.16★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Jasper County | 77 | 57.9% | 8,894 | 4.37 |
| Newton County | 49 | 36.8% | 3,099 | 4.25 |
| Cherokee County | 8 | 6.0% | 179 | 4.21 |
What do customers love and complain about in Joplin?
The aspect grid below summarizes 2,967 AI-extracted reviews across 133 Joplin 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 Joplin metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Joplin. The full set of 133 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Roper Kia 320 Hodgdon Rd | Joplin, MO | — | — | 4.4 | 2,503 | $54K |
| Zips Car Wash 1530 S Rangeline Rd | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.3 | 1,532 | $73K |
| Tsunami Express Car Wash 3209 S Rangeline Rd | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | Tsunami Express Car Wash | 4.8 | 836 | $73K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Joplin, MO I-44 Exit 11, 3101 S. Bedford Ave. | Joplin, MO | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.1 | 816 | $73K |
| Zips Car Wash 1309 S Madison St | Webb City, MO | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.4 | 506 | $60K |
| In & Out Car Wash 1001 E 32nd St | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | In & Out Car Wash | 4.2 | 479 | $73K |
| Truckomat of Joplin 4198 State Rte 43 | Joplin, MO | Full Service | Truckomat of Kenly | 3.7 | 475 | $73K |
| In & Out Car Wash and Detail 3040 E 7th St | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | In & Out Car Wash | 3.7 | 453 | $54K |
| SIG Auto Detailing 412 S Pennsylvania Ave | Joplin, MO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 410 | $73K |
| Crystal Clean Car Wash 2202 S Main St | Joplin, MO | — | — | 4.4 | 403 | $73K |
| Griffith Motor Company 1300 W Harmony St | Neosho, MO | — | — | 4.1 | 309 | $56K |
| Oasis Auto Spa Car Wash & Coin Laundry 1919 E 20th St | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | — | 4.2 | 298 | $73K |
| GO Car Wash 2738 S Grand Ave | Carthage, MO | Express Tunnel | GO Car Wash | 4.8 | 286 | $57K |
| Quick and Clean Mobile Detailing 412 E 4th St | Webb City, MO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 186 | $60K |
| Amazing Grace Trailer Washout 2160 N Garrison Ave | Carthage, MO | — | — | 4.9 | 176 | $57K |
| JoMo Auto Spa 2430 W 32nd St | Joplin, MO | Express Tunnel | — | 3.6 | 172 | $73K |
| Hurricane Carwash South 201 W Fir Rd | Carthage, MO | Express Tunnel | Hurricane Carwash North | 4.3 | 162 | $57K |
| Hurricane Carwash Webb City 1703 W MacArthur Dr | Webb City, MO | Express Tunnel | Hurricane Carwash North | 4.3 | 155 | $60K |
| Oasis Auto Spa Car Wash & Coin Laundry 513 W 7th St | Galena, KS | — | — | 4.2 | 135 | $53K |
| Ol'glory 2573 N Rangeline Rd | Joplin, MO | — | — | 3.8 | 134 | $54K |
| Neosho Powersports Car Wash 1849 14 F1 | Neosho, MO | — | — | 3.7 | 123 | $56K |
| Zak's Express Car Wash 2500 Lusk Dr | Neosho, MO | Express Tunnel | ZAK's Carwash | 4.3 | 121 | $56K |
| Raco Car Wash 1720 E 7th St | Joplin, MO | — | — | 4.4 | 114 | $54K |
| Shiney Hiney Truck Wash 12800 Hammer Rd | Neosho, MO | Full Service | — | 4.7 | 98 | $56K |
| Otto Car Wash 1110 S Neosho Blvd | Neosho, MO | Self-Serve Bay | Otto Car Wash | 3.0 | 89 | $56K |
Compare Joplin to other MO 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). Joplin car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/joplin
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Car wash inventory for the Joplin, MO-KS CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 3 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 2,967 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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