Lawton Car Wash Market Analysis
Lawton, OK
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Lawton's car wash market built from 4,433 Google reviews across 75 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 75
- 89% independent
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Pats Pet Wash (3 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.15★
- -0.26 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.1%
- 2.0× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 11.7%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 64% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 127,174
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 46,769
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,696
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 75 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 67 independents across 2 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.15★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 4,433 Google reviews, 838 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
75 car wash locations across 2 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 75 car wash locations, Lawton matches the structural profile of the typical US metro of comparable size. 5 chains compete alongside 67 independents — typical mix for a market of 75 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 838 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.15★; damage 3.1%; membership-cancel friction 11.7%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.74/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the top car wash chains in Lawton
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Lawton metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Lawton metro run about 100% below the national average ($0 vs. $32,560), across 6 employer establishments and roughly 0 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 Lawton car wash market
How many car washes are in the Lawton metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Lawton metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Lawton?
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What is the average customer rating in the Lawton car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Lawton?
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What kinds of car washes does Lawton have?
Format counts below split Lawton's 75 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.57★ across 4 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.17★ (7 locations).
64 (85.3%) of 75 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 | 64 | 85.3% | 2,381 | 4.08 | 1.48% | 3.6% |
| Express Tunnel | 7 | 9.3% | 1,744 | 4.17 | 5.47% | 16.3% |
| Detail Shop | 4 | 5.3% | 308 | 4.57 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Lawton car washes?
32 Lawton car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 32 qualifying locations: -0.27 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $54K AGI/return, 4.13★.
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 | 2 | 14 | 1,045 | 4.32 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 6 | 34 | 3,307 | 4.08 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 14 sites across 2 ZIPs at 4.32★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Lawton car washes?
5 chains run sites in Lawton; 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 | Pats Pet Wash | 3 | 638 | 4.25 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Watershed Carwash | 2 | 124 | 4.36 | — | — | — |
| 3 | All American Car Wash | 1 | 588 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Okie Express Auto Wash | 1 | 324 | 4.40 | 2.92% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 394 | 4.40 | 6.55% | 12.1% | 1.75% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Lawton?
Counties of the Lawton CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Comanche 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.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Comanche County | 71 | 94.7% | 4,433 | 4.15 |
| Cotton County | 4 | 5.3% | 0 | — |
What do customers love and complain about in Lawton?
Seven aspects, 838 reviews, 75 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Lawton's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Lawton metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Lawton. The full set of 75 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| All American Car Wash 5396 NW Cache Rd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | All American Car Wash | 3.9 | 588 | $56K |
| Pat's Wash Tub 914 SW Lee Blvd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Pats Pet Wash | 4.3 | 496 | $47K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 1302 NW Sheridan Rd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.4 | 394 | $56K |
| Shine Car Washes 5203 NW Cache Rd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.8 | 354 | $56K |
| Okie Express Auto Wash 3408 NW Cache Rd | Lawton, OK | — | Okie Express Auto Wash | 4.4 | 324 | $56K |
| Sheridan Express Wash LLC 302 NW Sheridan Rd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 4.1 | 252 | $56K |
| Tip's Auto Spa 7515 NW Cache Rd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.9 | 202 | $56K |
| Jackson's Laundry#1, Car Wash, and Mini Storages. 611 SW Sheridan Rd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 4.3 | 200 | $56K |
| Red Oak Car Wash 2102 NW Oak Ave | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.7 | 165 | $61K |
| Tip's Auto Spa 2801 NW 38th St | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.9 | 145 | $56K |
| All In Mobile Detailing 6 NW Millcreek Rd | Lawton, OK | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 142 | $56K |
| Guy's Body Shop 902 SW 2nd St | Lawton, OK | — | — | 4.8 | 128 | $47K |
| Pat's Car Wash 2502 E Gore Blvd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Pats Pet Wash | 4.4 | 102 | $47K |
| Pro-Tech 101 SW 2nd St | Lawton, OK | Detail Shop | — | 3.6 | 69 | $47K |
| Watershed Carwash 5203 NW Cache Rd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Watershed Carwash | 4.4 | 69 | $56K |
| Eugene's Car Wash 801 NE Rogers Ln | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.6 | 68 | $61K |
| Adams Detailing 201 SE Lee Blvd | Lawton, OK | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 65 | $47K |
| Blue Bison Car Wash 801 NE Rogers Ln | Lawton, OK | — | — | 4.1 | 65 | $61K |
| 25¢ Car Wash 1302 NW 47th St | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.8 | 57 | $56K |
| Watershed Carwash 302 NW Sheridan Rd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Watershed Carwash | 4.3 | 55 | $56K |
| S & J Auto Service 2812 NW Fort Sill Blvd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.8 | 46 | $61K |
| Barefoot LLC 106 SW Lee Blvd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.5 | 43 | $47K |
| Pats Pet Wash 912 SW Lee Blvd | Lawton, OK | Express Tunnel | Pats Pet Wash | 3.2 | 40 | $47K |
| Car wash 2008 NW Fort Sill Blvd | Lawton, OK | — | — | 3.4 | 39 | $61K |
| Supreme Shine Auto Detail 819 SE 2nd St | Lawton, OK | — | — | 5.0 | 34 | $47K |
Compare Lawton to other OK 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 Lawton, OK 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 838 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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