Market Analysis · CBSA 33460

Minneapolis Car Wash Market Analysis

Name: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Car Wash Market Dataset
Creator: WashIndex
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Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Data updated · June 9, 2026

130,494 Google reviews across 1,647 car washes in 16 Minneapolis counties. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.

Snapshot

Locations: 1,647; 80% independent
Chains: 48; lead: Kwik Trip (79 sites)
Avg rating: 4.36★; near national MSA median
Damage rate: 1.9%; 1.2× national MSA norm
Cancel friction: 12.3%
Top format: detail shop; 36% of classified inventory
Median single wash: $8; range $5–$50
Median unlimited: $24.99/mo; cheapest $10/mo at Dusty's Car and Pet Wash

Market Quality snapshot

Population: 3,693,351; ACS 2023 5-year
Households: 1,458,896; ACS 2023 5-year
Residents per wash: 2,242; 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
Express tunnels per 10K households: 0.5; in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites

Key findings

1,647 car wash locations operated by 48 chains and 1,322 independents across 16 counties.
Weighted Google rating 4.36★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
Built from 130,494 Google reviews, 35,237 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.

1,647 car wash locations across 16 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume

Locations

1,647

Chains

+ 1,322 independents

Reviews

130K

Avg Rating

4.36

Damage Rate

1.94%

Median AGI/return

$91K

location-weighted

Executive Read

Minneapolis reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 48 chains compete alongside 1,322 independents — typical mix for a market of 1,647 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 35,237 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.

Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.36★, damage 1.9%, cancel friction 12.3%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.57). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.

Published pricing across the 181 of 1670 Minneapolis locations with menus available: median single car wash $8 (range $5–$50), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $10–$100/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $10/mo at Dusty's Car and Pet Wash (Deluxe).

Top operators

See the top car wash chains in Minneapolis

Ranked by location count in the metro

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$$ Pricing

What does a car wash cost in the Minneapolis metro?

Published menu pricing for car washes in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 181 of 1670 tracked locations have usable published pricing (11% coverage).

Single Wash

median · range $5–$50 · 150 locations tracked

Unlimited Membership

$24.99 per month

median · range $10–$100 per month · 78 programs tracked

Cheapest unlimited memberships in Minneapolis
1	Dusty's Car and Pet Wash Deluxe	$10 per mo
2	Mister Car Wash Base Plus	$15 per mo
3	Blackout Detail Pro	$15 per mo
4	Kodiak Kar Wash Basic	$16 per mo
5	Perfect 10 Car Wash and Detail Center CARPET MATS (4)	$16.99 per mo

Cheapest single car washes in Minneapolis
1	Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detailing Center Rubber Mats	$5
2	Woodbury Full Service Car Wash & Detailing Center Tire Dressing	$5
3	Auto Doctor Detail and Wash Accessories Armor All	$5.50
4	Flippin' Bill's Silver	$6
5	Blackout Detail Starter	$6

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.

Official industry footprint · BLS QCEW 2024

The car wash industry in the Minneapolis metro, officially

Fast-growing

the Minneapolis metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 12% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 140, now employing about 1,418 people at a $32,415 average wage.

Employer establishments

140

NAICS 811192 · 2024

Industry jobs

1,418

private, annual avg

Avg annual wage

$32,415

per employee

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.

SBA Lending · FY2010–present

Car wash financing in the Minneapolis metro

Operations-heavy

Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 58 car-wash loans in the Minneapolis metro worth $55.9M, at a $391,500 median per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. An outsized 19% of loans were for working capital rather than construction or acquisition (vs. 10% nationally), which can point to operators managing cash flow more than expanding.

SBA loans

FY2010–2025

Total approved

$55.9M

7(a) + 504

Median loan

$392K

per car wash

Charge-off rate

0.0%

of 27 resolved

SBA car-wash loans approved per fiscal year

Loans by county

Hennepin 14
Anoka 12
Wright 8
Scott 6
Sherburne 5
Dakota 4

What the loans fund · estimated from loan terms

New build / open38% · $1.1M
Acquisition5% · $1.9M
Expansion / improvement34% · $253K
Working capital19% · $30K
Unclassified3% · $147K

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.

Frequently Asked Questions

About the Minneapolis car wash market

How many car washes are in the Minneapolis metro?

There are 1,647 car wash locations across the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI CBSA, spanning 16 counties.

What is the best-rated car wash in the Minneapolis metro?

Waconia 1 Collision & Auto in Waconia, MN is the highest-rated car wash in the Minneapolis metro at 5.0★ across 416 Google reviews (filtering to locations with at least 100 reviews).

Which car wash chain has the most locations in Minneapolis?

Kwik Trip has the most locations in the Minneapolis metro with 79 sites, followed by bp (68 sites). The metro has 48 multi-location operators in total, alongside 1,322 independent or single-location sites.

What is the average customer rating in the Minneapolis car wash market?

The review-weighted average rating across all 1,647 car washes in the Minneapolis metro is 4.36★, based on 130,494 Google reviews processed through WashIndex's customer-experience pipeline.

What is the typical household income near car washes in Minneapolis?

Across the ZIP codes containing the Minneapolis metro's car washes, the location-weighted median IRS-reported AGI per tax return is $91K (tax year 2022) — a rough proxy for trade-area household income.

How much does a car wash cost in Minneapolis?

Single-wash prices across the Minneapolis car wash market range from $5 to $50, with a median of $8 across 150 locations that publish their pricing. The cheapest single car wash in the metro is $5 at Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detailing Center (Rubber Mats). Pricing data is captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent.

How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Minneapolis?

Unlimited car wash memberships in the Minneapolis metro range from $10/month to $100/month, with a median of $24.99/month across 78 programs tracked. The cheapest unlimited membership is $10/month at Dusty's Car and Pet Wash (Deluxe); the most expensive tracked is $100/month at BDS Mobile Car Detailing (Monthly Maintenance).

What is the cheapest car wash in Minneapolis?

The cheapest single car wash in the Minneapolis metro is $5 at Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detailing Center (Rubber Mats tier). For ongoing customers, the cheapest unlimited membership is $10/month at Dusty's Car and Pet Wash (Deluxe) — a break-even of roughly 1.3 washes per month at the metro's median single-wash price of $8.

01 Format Mix

What kinds of car washes does Minneapolis have?

The format mix in Minneapolis 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: Detail Shop at 4.79★ across 139 locations. Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 3.88★ (127 locations).

Format	Locations	% of MSA	Reviews	Avg Rating	Damage Rate	Cancel Friction
Detail Shop	139	8.4%	15,729	4.79	0.60%	0.0%
In-Bay Automatic	127	7.7%	8,785	3.88	0.82%	0.0%
Express Tunnel	74	4.5%	27,709	4.25	5.02%	13.2%
Full Service	24	1.5%	12,209	3.91	3.78%	11.4%
Self-Serve Bay	23	1.4%	4,601	3.97	1.50%	0.0%

02 Income & Demographics

What is the household income near Minneapolis car washes?

Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Minneapolis tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.

Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 707 qualifying locations: 0.04 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $101K AGI/return, 4.30★.

Detail Shop In-Bay Automatic Express Tunnel Full Service Self-Serve Bay

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
Under $50K	5	14	1,199	4.17	In-Bay Automatic (3)
$50K – $75K	49	294	33,104	4.37	In-Bay Automatic (33)
$75K – $100K	74	481	50,139	4.36	Detail Shop (57)
$100K – $150K	41	285	36,196	4.31	Detail Shop (49)
$150K+	20	85	5,798	4.39	In-Bay Automatic (12)

The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 85 car washes across 20 ZIPs at 4.39★, against 14 sites across 5 ZIPs at 4.17★ 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.

03 Dominant Chains

Who operates the most Minneapolis car washes?

The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Minneapolis by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.

#	Chain	Locations	Reviews	Avg Rating	Damage	Cancel	Upsell
1	Kwik Trip	79	13,290	4.33	0.85%	—	0.06%
2	bp	68	3,244	3.60	0.30%	—	0.15%
3	Mister Car Wash	26	11,760	4.02	6.36%	11.7%	2.05%
4	Circle K	21	506	4.02	—	—	—
5	Holiday Stationstores	15	1,065	3.58	0.53%	—	0.53%
6	Shell	9	456	3.89	—	—	—
7	Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center	8	4,790	3.60	6.06%	11.8%	0.67%
8	The Car Wash Co.	7	2,272	4.30	1.17%	—	0.00%
9	Tommy's Express® Car Wash	5	2,288	4.44	7.03%	10.7%	0.28%
10	Tidal Wave Auto Spa \| Car Wash	5	1,729	4.47	5.14%	19.8%	0.94%
11	Silverstar Car Wash	5	2,228	4.74	1.85%	14.3%	0.68%
12	Youngstedts Minnoco Tire & Auto Repair	4	746	4.13	2.46%	—	3.28%
13	Fleet Farm Car Wash	4	215	3.56	—	—	—
14	Crew Carwash	4	1,035	4.28	11.76%	11.1%	0.74%
15	Hy-Vee Car Wash	3	352	4.01	—	—	—
16	WaterWerks Car Wash	3	2,074	4.25	3.73%	16.7%	0.62%
17	GoodDay Express Car Wash	3	2,536	4.72	2.03%	10.4%	0.00%
18	Wash Me Self-Serve Car Wash	3	1,263	3.83	2.08%	—	0.69%
19	Cielo Car Wash	3	994	4.59	1.11%	—	0.74%
20	Speedway	2	34	3.92	—	—	—
21	Sparkle Car Wash	2	407	4.10	—	—	—
22	Bubble Barn Car Wash	2	843	4.17	6.21%	—	0.62%
23	Park Chrysler Jeep	2	1,451	4.40	0.30%	—	0.00%
24	Cornerstone Car Wash	2	392	4.42	—	—	—
25	Sunshine Carwash	2	182	3.29	—	—	—

04 County Breakdown

Which counties have the most car washes in Minneapolis?

Counties of the Minneapolis CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Hennepin 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: 0.58★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.

County	Locations	% of MSA	Reviews	Avg Rating
Hennepin County	495	30.1%	41,279	4.30
Ramsey County	236	14.3%	18,347	4.37
Dakota County	191	11.6%	21,459	4.36
Anoka County	177	10.7%	15,688	4.42
Washington County	101	6.1%	9,428	4.32
Scott County	97	5.9%	4,431	4.27
Wright County	87	5.3%	6,859	4.59
St. Croix County	62	3.8%	3,056	4.43
Sherburne County	56	3.4%	1,884	4.46
Carver County	52	3.2%	2,626	4.54
Chisago County	26	1.6%	2,601	4.51
Isanti County	25	1.5%	1,153	4.48
Mille Lacs County	19	1.2%	648	4.04
Pierce County	19	1.2%	589	4.62
Le Sueur County	15	0.9%	259	4.37
Sibley County	12	0.7%	187	4.28

05 Customer Experience Signals

What do customers love and complain about in Minneapolis?

The aspect grid below summarizes 35,237 AI-extracted reviews across 1,647 Minneapolis car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).

Staff +0.77

Wash Quality +0.71

Facility Cleanliness +0.58

Wait Time +0.57

Per-Wash Price +0.26

Membership Value +0.12

Equipment Working -0.57

06 All Locations

Where are all the car washes in the Minneapolis metro?

The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Minneapolis 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
Walser Nissan Burnsville 14750 Buck Hill Rd	Burnsville, MN	—	Walser Nissan Burnsville	4.8	3,302	$91K
Morrie's Mazda 13700 Wayzata Blvd	Hopkins, MN	—	—	4.5	2,440	$148K
Forest Lake Chevrolet Service 533 19th St SW	Forest Lake, MN	—	—	4.7	1,606	$89K
Forest Lake Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Service 321 19th St SW	Forest Lake, MN	—	—	4.6	1,503	$89K
Park Chrysler Jeep 1408 Hwy 13 W	Burnsville, MN	Express Tunnel	Park Chrysler Jeep	4.4	1,440	$73K
Mister Car Wash 520 E 7th St	St Paul, MN	Express Tunnel	Mister Car Wash	3.7	1,375	$114K
WaterWerks Car Wash 901 Louisiana Ave S	Golden Valley, MN	Full Service	WaterWerks Car Wash	4.3	1,337	$95K
Walser Subaru St. Paul 740 Concord St S	South St Paul, MN	—	Walser Subaru St. Paul	4.7	1,337	$63K
Bobby & Steve's Auto World 7920 France Ave S	Bloomington, MN	In-Bay Automatic	Bobby & Steve's Auto World	4.3	1,290	$117K
Perfect 10 Car Wash and Detail Center 999 County Hwy 10	Minneapolis, MN	Full Service	—	3.9	1,258	$62K
GoodDay Express Car Wash 1301 Cedar St	Monticello, MN	Express Tunnel	GoodDay Express Car Wash	4.7	1,174	$92K
Steve's Auto World of Maple Grove 9871 Maple Grove Pkwy	Maple Grove, MN	Express Tunnel	—	4.5	1,149	$97K
Tommy's Express® Car Wash 7201 Bass Lake Rd	New Hope, MN	Express Tunnel	Tommy's Express® Car Wash	4.5	1,079	$61K
GoodDay Express Car Wash 15840 85th St NE	Otsego, MN	Express Tunnel	GoodDay Express Car Wash	4.8	1,055	$91K
Schoonover Bodyworks & Autocare 1060 County Rd E	Shoreview, MN	Detail Shop	—	4.9	1,012	$113K
Amoco of Shoreview 3854 Lexington Ave N	Shoreview, MN	—	—	4.6	984	$113K
Bobby & Steve's Auto World - Eden Prairie 8100 Flying Cloud Dr	Eden Prairie, MN	In-Bay Automatic	Bobby & Steve's Auto World	4.2	957	$93K
Mister Car Wash 1555 County B Rd W	Roseville, MN	Express Tunnel	Mister Car Wash	3.7	938	$87K
Mister Car Wash 8650 MN-7	St Louis Park, MN	Express Tunnel	Mister Car Wash	3.8	917	$95K
Mister Car Wash 7100 W Broadway	Brooklyn Park, MN	Express Tunnel	Mister Car Wash	4.4	903	$61K
Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center 1355 Town Centre Dr	Eagan, MN	Full Service	Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center	3.5	897	$128K
Land Rover Service Center 1525 E 77th St	Richfield, MN	—	—	4.8	850	$70K
Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail 600 Woodbury Dr	Woodbury, MN	Full Service	Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center	3.4	826	$108K
Mister Car Wash 7711 Normandale Rd	Edina, MN	Express Tunnel	Mister Car Wash	3.8	796	$117K
LaMettry's Collision, Inc. of Minnetonka 13600 County Rd 62	Minnetonka, MN	—	—	4.9	770	$149K

Nearby Other MN metros

Compare Minneapolis to other MN 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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@misc{washindex_car_wash_markets_minneapolis_2026,
  title  = {{Minneapolis car wash market analysis}},
  author = {{WashIndex}},
  year   = {2026},
  month  = {Jun},
  url    = {https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/minneapolis},
  urldate = {2026-06-09},
}

About this analysis

Car wash inventory for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 16 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 35,237 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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