Longview Car Wash Market Analysis
Longview, TX
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Longview's car wash market built from 11,352 Google reviews across 196 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 196
- 88% independent
- Chains
- 13
- lead: Shell (5 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.44★
- near national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.2%
- 1.4× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 26.2%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 65% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $7–$50
- Median unlimited
- $29.95/mo
- cheapest $19/mo at Speedie D's Carwash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 288,921
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 106,264
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,474
- 1.3× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.6
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 196 car wash locations operated by 13 chains and 172 independents across 4 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.44★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 11,352 Google reviews, 3,268 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
196 car wash locations across 4 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Longview's car wash market reads as US-metro-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 196 locations across 13 chains and 172 independents, distributed across 4 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.44★; damage 2.2%; membership-cancel friction 26.2%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.55). 11,352 Google reviews drive the analysis, 3,268 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 15 of 196 Longview locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $7–$50), median unlimited membership $29.95/month (range $19–$100/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $19/mo at Speedie D's Carwash (Basic).
See the top car wash chains in Longview
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Longview metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Longview metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 15 of 196 tracked locations have usable published pricing (8% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Longview | ||
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| 1 | Speedie D's Carwash Basic | $19 per mo |
| 2 | Scrubbies Car Wash - Gilmer Wash n' Wheels | $27.99 per mo |
| 3 | Smitty's Car Wash DELUXE | $29 per mo |
| 4 | THE LOCAL WASH Wheel Wash | $29.95 per mo |
| 5 | THE LOCAL WASH #3 Wheel Wash | $29.95 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Longview | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soapies Car Wash at Marshall Avenue Basic Exterior | $7 |
| 2 | Soapies Car Wash Basic Exterior | $7 |
| 3 | Scrubbies Car Wash - Gilmer Basic Wash | $11 |
| 4 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
| 5 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $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 Longview metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Longview metro run about 100% below the national average ($0 vs. $32,560), across 16 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 Longview car wash market
How many car washes are in the Longview metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Longview metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Longview?
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What is the average customer rating in the Longview car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Longview?
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How much does a car wash cost in Longview?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Longview?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Longview?
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What kinds of car washes does Longview 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. Longview's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.60★ across 8 locations. Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 4.10★ (1 locations).
170 (86.7%) of 196 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 | 170 | 86.7% | 3,529 | 4.42 | 1.13% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 17 | 8.7% | 6,563 | 4.44 | 2.93% | 26.7% |
| Detail Shop | 8 | 4.1% | 1,114 | 4.60 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 0.5% | 146 | 4.10 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Longview car washes?
Each ZIP in Longview 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 70 qualifying locations: -0.03 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $68K AGI/return, 4.27★.
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 | 18 | 933 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 14 | 80 | 6,156 | 4.37 | Express Tunnel (10) |
| $75K – $100K | 4 | 26 | 3,680 | 4.49 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 18 sites, 4.59★. Across Longview's 70 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Longview car washes?
13 chains alongside 172 independents make up Longview'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 | Shell | 5 | 183 | 3.93 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Wash Masters Car Wash | 4 | 591 | 3.62 | 10.91% | — | 0.91% |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 2 | 455 | 4.60 | 1.56% | 21.6% | 0.39% |
| 4 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 3,679 | 4.59 | 0.96% | 30.6% | 0.29% |
| 5 | Soapies Car Wash | 2 | 458 | 3.93 | — | — | — |
| 6 | THE LOCAL WASH | 2 | 588 | 4.77 | 3.63% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | Dealers Detail Inc. | 1 | 17 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Cave Wave Car Wash | 1 | 46 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Xpress Car Wash & Vacuum | 1 | 175 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Scrubbies Car Wash - Fate | 1 | 35 | 3.10 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Smitty's Car Wash | 1 | 400 | 4.80 | 0.49% | — | 0.49% |
| 12 | Advanced Car Cleaning | 1 | 82 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Phillips 66 | 1 | 146 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Longview?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 4 counties of the Longview, TX CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.47★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Gregg County | 99 | 50.5% | 8,254 | 4.45 |
| Harrison County | 47 | 24.0% | 1,707 | 4.55 |
| Upshur County | 29 | 14.8% | 557 | 4.08 |
| Rusk County | 21 | 10.7% | 834 | 4.42 |
What do customers love and complain about in Longview?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are all the car washes in the Longview metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Longview 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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| Take 5 Car Wash 3150 N Eastman Rd | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 2,023 | $96K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 330 TX-63 Spur | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,656 | $63K |
| Zippy J's With Carwash 3913 US-80 | Longview, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.3 | 573 | $66K |
| Smitty's Car Wash 1500 E End Blvd N | Marshall, TX | Express Tunnel | Smitty's Car Wash | 4.8 | 400 | $75K |
| THE LOCAL WASH 201 E End Blvd N | Marshall, TX | Express Tunnel | THE LOCAL WASH | 4.7 | 380 | $43K |
| Soapies Car Wash at Marshall Avenue 300 E Marshall Ave | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Soapies Car Wash | 4.3 | 345 | $63K |
| Classic Collision 1207 N Frisco St | Henderson, TX | — | — | 4.8 | 294 | $70K |
| Wash Masters Car Wash 3923-3999 W Marshall Ave | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Wash Masters Car Wash | 4.0 | 282 | $66K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 4000 Estes Pkwy | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 269 | $71K |
| Not A Spot Car Wash 3519 Gilmer Rd | Longview, TX | — | — | 4.4 | 240 | $66K |
| THE LOCAL WASH #3 3616 McCann Rd | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | THE LOCAL WASH | 4.9 | 208 | $96K |
| 99 Truck & Trailer Wash of Longview 15379 FM968 | Longview, TX | — | — | 4.2 | 194 | $47K |
| El Dorado Details 900 E Marshall Ave | Longview, TX | — | — | 4.2 | 191 | $63K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 602 E End Blvd N | Marshall, TX | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.6 | 186 | $75K |
| Xpress Car Wash & Vacuum 600 E Hawkins Pkwy | Longview, TX | Express Tunnel | Xpress Car Wash & Vacuum | 4.2 | 175 | $96K |
| Hank's Frame & Wheel Service 1419 W Marshall Ave | Longview, TX | — | — | 4.5 | 170 | $66K |
| TLC Car Wash 3323 Gilmer Rd | Longview, TX | — | — | 3.9 | 158 | $66K |
| Wash Masters Car Wash 1207 N Kilgore St | Kilgore, TX | Express Tunnel | Wash Masters Car Wash | 3.2 | 157 | $59K |
| Reflective Image Auto Spa LLC| Ceramic Coatings 2004 Lee St | Longview, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 151 | $66K |
| Phillips 66 602 US Hwy 271 N | Gilmer, TX | In-Bay Automatic | Phillips 66 | 4.1 | 146 | $63K |
| Pinecrest self serve Car Wash | Marshall, TX | — | — | 3.9 | 144 | $75K |
| PowerHouse Mobile Detailing 1200 Cherokee Trce #301 | White Oak, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 142 | $79K |
| Soapy King 302 Kilgore Dr | Henderson, TX | — | — | 4.4 | 136 | $70K |
| Speedie D's Carwash 657 US Hwy 271 N | Gilmer, TX | Express Tunnel | — | 3.3 | 136 | $63K |
| Texas Made Mobile Detailing | , TX | — | — | 5.0 | 129 | — |
Compare Longview to other TX car wash markets
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Longview car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/longview
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Car wash inventory for the Longview, TX CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 4 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 3,268 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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