Kiryas Joel Car Wash Market Analysis
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY
Data updated · September 26, 2026
A read of Kiryas Joel's car wash market built from 19,246 Google reviews across 245 locations. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 245
- 90% independent
- Chains
- 8
- lead: Foam & Wash Car Wash (13 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.36★
- -0.06 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.8%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 15.7%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 46% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$50
- Median unlimited
- $19.95/mo
- cheapest $14/mo at Foam & Wash Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 700,984
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 252,495
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,861
- 1.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.1
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 245 car wash locations operated by 8 chains and 221 independents across 2 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.36★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 19,246 Google reviews, 5,397 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
245 car wash locations across 2 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 245 car wash locations, Kiryas Joel matches the structural profile of the typical US metro of comparable size. 245 locations across 8 chains and 221 independents, distributed across 2 counties. Customer-experience signals across 5,397 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 245-location market weighs in at 4.36★; damage rate 1.8%; cancel friction 15.7%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.74/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 23 of 247 Kiryas Joel locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$50), median unlimited membership $19.95/month (range $14–$82.95/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $14/mo at Foam & Wash Car Wash (Underbody).
See the top car wash chains in Kiryas Joel
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Kiryas Joel metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Kiryas Joel metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 23 of 247 tracked locations have usable published pricing (9% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Kiryas Joel | ||
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| 1 | Foam & Wash Car Wash Underbody | $14 per mo |
| 2 | Foam & Wash Car Wash Underbody | $14 per mo |
| 3 | Foam and Wash Car Wash Underbody | $14 per mo |
| 4 | Foam & Wash Car Wash Underbody | $14 per mo |
| 5 | Foam And Wash Underbody | $14 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Kiryas Joel | ||
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| 1 | Foam And Wash Underbody | $10 |
| 2 | Wash Co. Basic | $11 |
| 3 | Splash Car Wash Express Basic Wash | $11 |
| 4 | Splash Car Wash Express Express Wash | $11 |
| 5 | Foam & Wash Car Wash Underbody | $12 |
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.
The car wash industry in the Kiryas Joel metro, officially
High-wageCar-wash wages in the Kiryas Joel metro run about 27% above the national average ($41,498 vs. $32,560), across 39 employer establishments and roughly 295 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.
About the Kiryas Joel car wash market
How many car washes are in the Kiryas Joel metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Kiryas Joel metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Kiryas Joel?
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What is the average customer rating in the Kiryas Joel car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Kiryas Joel?
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How much does a car wash cost in Kiryas Joel?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Kiryas Joel?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Kiryas Joel?
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What kinds of car washes does Kiryas Joel 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. Kiryas Joel's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.87★ across 26 locations. Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 3.81★ (3 locations).
188 (76.7%) of 245 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 |
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| Unclassified | 188 | 76.7% | 5,697 | 4.28 | 1.69% | 12.5% |
| Detail Shop | 26 | 10.6% | 2,655 | 4.87 | 0.16% | 0.0% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 14 | 5.7% | 4,804 | 4.30 | 3.44% | 7.9% |
| Full Service | 11 | 4.5% | 4,871 | 4.27 | 2.40% | 24.4% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 1.2% | 375 | 3.81 | 2.04% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 1.2% | 844 | 4.30 | 3.77% | 5.0% |
What is the household income near Kiryas Joel car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Kiryas Joel tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 105 qualifying locations: 0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $85K AGI/return, 4.42★.
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 | 9 | 69 | 6,971 | 4.28 | Detail Shop (8) |
| $75K – $100K | 14 | 66 | 8,676 | 4.39 | Detail Shop (13) |
| $100K – $150K | 12 | 28 | 3,087 | 4.31 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ 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 Kiryas Joel car washes?
8 chains alongside 221 independents make up Kiryas Joel'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 |
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| 1 | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 13 | 4,743 | 4.31 | 3.56% | 8.0% | 1.19% |
| 2 | Splash Car Wash Express | 3 | 1,802 | 4.45 | 2.77% | 26.5% | 0.69% |
| 3 | Amazing Shine Detailing | 2 | 176 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Angel & Son Premier Auto Spa | 2 | 266 | 4.92 | 0.67% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Citgo | 1 | 106 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 541 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Speedway | 1 | 87 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Shell | 1 | 26 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Kiryas Joel?
Counties of the Kiryas Joel CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Orange County is the most density-concentrated. Reading the rating column tells you whether quality is uniform across the metro or whether specific counties pull in either direction.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.14★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Orange County | 157 | 64.1% | 11,732 | 4.30 |
| Dutchess County | 88 | 35.9% | 7,514 | 4.44 |
What do customers love and complain about in Kiryas Joel?
The aspect grid below summarizes 5,397 AI-extracted reviews across 245 Kiryas Joel 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 Kiryas Joel metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Kiryas Joel. The full set of 245 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Wash Co. 1020 Dolsontown Rd | Middletown, NY | Full Service | Splash Car Wash Express | 4.4 | 1,280 | $66K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 1520 US-9 | Wappingers Falls, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.4 | 846 | $89K |
| Newburgh Auto Spa 86 NY-17K | Newburgh, NY | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 814 | $70K |
| Hambletonian Auto Spa 1 Bryle Pl | Chester, NY | — | — | 4.1 | 700 | $103K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 49 N Plank Rd | Newburgh, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.4 | 692 | $70K |
| Frankie's Full Service Car Wash And Auto Center 194 NY-17M | Harriman, NY | — | — | 3.7 | 623 | $82K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 15 N Grand Ave | Poughkeepsie, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.2 | 576 | $92K |
| OAX Car Detailing & Window Tinting 91 College Ave | Poughkeepsie, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 572 | $92K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Montgomery, NY 145 Neelytown Rd | Montgomery, NY | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.1 | 541 | $97K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 409 Windsor Hwy | New Windsor, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.3 | 507 | $80K |
| Foam and Wash Car Wash 778 US-9 | Fishkill, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.4 | 505 | $94K |
| Splash Car Wash Express 20 Hawkins Dr | Montgomery, NY | Full Service | Splash Car Wash Express | 4.6 | 488 | $97K |
| Prestige Car Wash Tint & Wrap - XPEL Window tint and Paint Protection Films 482 All Angels Hill Rd | Hopewell Junction, NY | Full Service | — | 4.8 | 477 | $118K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 20 Merritt Blvd | Fishkill, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.3 | 449 | $94K |
| Friendly Honda Service Department 1143 Dutchess Turnpike | Poughkeepsie, NY | — | — | 4.7 | 395 | $92K |
| Minute Car Wash Newburgh 160 S Robinson Ave | Newburgh, NY | Full Service | — | 3.9 | 371 | $70K |
| Bubble Barn Car Wash 119 Old South Plank Rd | Newburgh, NY | Express Tunnel | — | 4.5 | 361 | $70K |
| Foam & Wash Shell Express & Car Wash 1942 South Rd | Poughkeepsie, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.4 | 337 | $63K |
| Warwick Car Wash Oil Gas Auto Repair 18 Elm St | Warwick, NY | Express Tunnel | — | 4.0 | 311 | $125K |
| Wallkill Car Wash 521 NY-211 | Middletown, NY | — | — | 3.5 | 309 | $75K |
| Bay Wash 485 E Main St | Middletown, NY | — | — | 3.9 | 305 | $66K |
| Goshen Car Wash Oil Express 289 W Main St | Goshen, NY | Full Service | — | 4.0 | 287 | $126K |
| Foam & Wash Car Wash 2629 South Rd | Poughkeepsie, NY | Self-Serve Bay | Foam & Wash Car Wash | 4.3 | 256 | $63K |
| American Dream Car Wash & Quick Lube 26 NY-17M | Harriman, NY | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 256 | $82K |
| Exclusive Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coating. 150 Noxon Rd Suite 8 | Poughkeepsie, NY | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 250 | $92K |
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WashIndex. (2026, September 26). Kiryas Joel car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/kiryas-joel
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Car wash inventory for the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 2 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 5,397 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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