Lexington Park Car Wash Market Analysis
Lexington Park, MD
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Lexington Park's car wash market built from 4,961 Google reviews across 109 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 109
- 88% independent
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Shell (5 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.22★
- -0.19 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.2%
- 1.3× below national norm
- Cancel friction
- 8.8%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 64% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 208,163
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 75,228
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,910
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.4
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 109 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 96 independents across 2 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.22★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 4,961 Google reviews, 1,513 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
109 car wash locations across 2 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Lexington Park's car wash market reads as US-metro-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 109 locations across 7 chains and 96 independents, distributed across 2 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 109-location market weighs in at 4.22★; damage rate 1.2%; cancel friction 8.8%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.78/+1). 4,961 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,513 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in Lexington Park
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Lexington Park metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Lexington Park metro run about 15% below the national average ($27,616 vs. $32,560), across 8 employer establishments and roughly 35 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 Lexington Park car wash market
How many car washes are in the Lexington Park metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Lexington Park metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Lexington Park?
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What is the average customer rating in the Lexington Park car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Lexington Park?
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What kinds of car washes does Lexington Park have?
The format mix in Lexington Park 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: In-Bay Automatic at 4.80★ across 1 locations. Lowest-rated: Express Tunnel at 4.07★ (3 locations).
98 (89.9%) of 109 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 | 98 | 89.9% | 3,172 | 4.17 | 0.86% | 13.3% |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 6.4% | 564 | 4.59 | 0.37% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 2.8% | 1,071 | 4.07 | 4.10% | 8.7% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 0.9% | 154 | 4.80 | 0.86% | 8.0% |
What is the household income near Lexington Park car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Lexington Park tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 38 qualifying locations: -0.04 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $95K AGI/return, 4.06★.
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 | 2 | 13 | 1,186 | 4.21 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 8 | 30 | 2,584 | 4.16 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 9 | 21 | 946 | 4.18 | In-Bay Automatic (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ 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 Lexington Park car washes?
7 chains run sites in Lexington Park; 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 | Shell | 5 | 179 | 3.68 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sheetz | 2 | 192 | 3.54 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Magic Tunnel Car Wash | 2 | 696 | 4.27 | 2.61% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Splash In | 1 | 154 | 4.80 | 0.86% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | The Auto Spa Express | 1 | 264 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Royal Farms | 1 | 50 | 2.80 | — | — | — |
| 7 | bp | 1 | 36 | 2.40 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Lexington Park?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 2 counties of the Lexington Park, MD CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.02★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| St. Mary's County | 76 | 69.7% | 3,236 | 4.21 |
| Calvert County | 33 | 30.3% | 1,725 | 4.23 |
What do customers love and complain about in Lexington Park?
Seven aspects, 1,513 reviews, 109 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Lexington Park's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Lexington Park metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Lexington Park MSA is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| CMA's Toyota of Lexington Park 22500 Three Notch Rd | Lexington Park, MD | — | — | 4.5 | 902 | $73K |
| Magic Tunnel Car Wash 410 Solomons Island Rd N | Prince Frederick, MD | Express Tunnel | Magic Tunnel Car Wash | 4.2 | 577 | $93K |
| Cheseldine Car Wash 22667 Mercedes Dr | California, MD | Express Tunnel | — | 3.7 | 375 | $94K |
| Classic Collision 22664 Mercedes Dr Ste 452 | California, MD | — | — | 4.6 | 365 | $94K |
| TEMPORARILY CLOSED - Huntingtown Auto Spa 2266 Solomons Island Rd | Huntingtown, MD | — | The Auto Spa Express | 3.5 | 264 | $119K |
| Calvert Mobile Detailing - Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coating 713 Keith Ln | Owings, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 186 | $121K |
| Burch Car Wash - Charlotte Hall 30075 Three Notch Rd | Charlotte Hall, MD | — | — | 3.5 | 182 | $96K |
| Splash In 40874 Merchants Ln | Leonardtown, MD | In-Bay Automatic | Splash In | 4.8 | 154 | $120K |
| Magic Tunnel Car Wash 23038 Three Notch Rd | California, MD | Express Tunnel | Magic Tunnel Car Wash | 4.6 | 119 | $94K |
| Solomon Carwash 14030 H G Trueman Rd | Solomons, MD | — | — | 3.7 | 117 | $115K |
| Sheetz 22711 Three Notch Rd | California, MD | — | Sheetz | 3.5 | 111 | $94K |
| Pro-Gloss Auto Solutions 43752 Willow Pine Way | California, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 101 | $94K |
| MAC'Nificent Mobile Detailing 213 Pawnee Ln | Lusby, MD | — | — | 5.0 | 101 | $78K |
| California Car Wash 22781 Three Notch Rd B | California, MD | Detail Shop | — | 2.8 | 99 | $94K |
| The Used Tire Center 27671 Three Notch Rd | Mechanicsville, MD | — | — | 4.6 | 96 | $90K |
| Butler Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coatings 101 Skipjack Rd # 10 | Prince Frederick, MD | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 82 | $93K |
| Double Bubble Auto Wash 165 Central Square Dr | Prince Frederick, MD | — | — | 4.2 | 81 | $93K |
| Sheetz 20760 Old Great Mills Rd | Great Mills, MD | — | Sheetz | 3.6 | 81 | $81K |
| Shine Right Auto Detailing 1010 Donna Ln | Huntingtown, MD | — | — | 4.9 | 77 | $119K |
| Magic Kleen Car Wash Millstone Landing Rd | California, MD | — | — | 3.0 | 69 | $73K |
| Shell 22141 Three Notch Rd | Lexington Park, MD | — | Shell | 3.4 | 60 | $73K |
| Royal Farms 21779 Tulagi Pl | Lexington Park, MD | — | Royal Farms | 2.8 | 50 | $73K |
| Xtreme Kleen Car Wash 21609 Great Mills Rd | Lexington Park, MD | — | — | 2.8 | 49 | $73K |
| Shell 136 Chesapeake Beach Rd | Owings, MD | — | Shell | 3.6 | 49 | $121K |
| Soap City Mobile Detailing | , MD | — | — | 5.0 | 47 | — |
Compare Lexington Park to other MD car wash markets
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Lexington Park car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/lexington-park
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Car wash inventory for the Lexington Park, MD 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 1,513 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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