Minot Car Wash Market Analysis
Minot, ND
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Minot's car wash market built from 3,251 Google reviews across 38 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 38
- 89% independent
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Enerbase Corner Express (2 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.21★
- -0.20 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.1%
- 1.3× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 25.0%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 43% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 76,773
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 31,477
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,020
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.0
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 38 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 34 independents across 3 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.21★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 3,251 Google reviews, 762 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
38 car wash locations across 3 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 38 car wash locations, Minot matches the structural profile of the typical US metro of comparable size. 3 chains compete alongside 34 independents — typical mix for a market of 38 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 762 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-metro norms: rating 4.21★, damage 2.1%, cancel friction 25.0%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.51). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the top car wash chains in Minot
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Minot metro, officially
the Minot metro has 6 car-wash employer establishments employing about 61 people, at a $30,357 average annual wage.
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 Minot car wash market
How many car washes are in the Minot metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Minot metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Minot?
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What is the average customer rating in the Minot car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Minot?
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What kinds of car washes does Minot 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. Minot's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Express Tunnel at 4.43★ across 3 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 3.20★ (1 locations).
31 (81.6%) of 38 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 | 31 | 81.6% | 1,591 | 4.13 | 0.00% | — |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 7.9% | 78 | 4.96 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 7.9% | 1,343 | 4.43 | 3.55% | 25.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 2.6% | 239 | 3.20 | 2.86% | — |
What is the household income near Minot car washes?
19 Minot 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 19 qualifying locations: -0.56 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs in this market host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $82K AGI/return, 4.21★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 5 | 33 | 3,229 | 4.20 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 Minot car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Minot 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 | Enerbase Corner Express | 2 | 132 | 3.81 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 783 | 4.50 | 2.21% | 26.2% | 0.55% |
| 3 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 239 | 3.20 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Minot?
Counties of the Minot CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Ward 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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| Ward County | 36 | 94.7% | 3,239 | 4.21 |
| McHenry County | 2 | 5.3% | 12 | 3.80 |
What do customers love and complain about in Minot?
The aspect grid below summarizes 762 AI-extracted reviews across 38 Minot 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 Minot metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Minot. The full set of 38 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2815 S Broadway | Minot, ND | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.5 | 783 | $87K |
| Schatz Crossroads Truck Stop 1712 20th Ave SE | Minot, ND | — | — | 4.1 | 580 | $87K |
| Fastlane Carwash Minot 312 31st Ave SW | Minot, ND | Express Tunnel | — | 4.2 | 373 | $87K |
| Jerome's Collision Center 2705 N Broadway | Minot, ND | — | — | 4.8 | 334 | $76K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Minot, ND 1712 20th Ave SE US 2/52 Bypass Exit, 17th St SE | Minot, ND | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 3.2 | 239 | $87K |
| Expressway Laundromat & Car 717 27th St SE | Minot, ND | — | — | 3.7 | 195 | $87K |
| Magic City Car Wash 619 N Broadway | Minot, ND | Express Tunnel | — | 4.6 | 187 | $76K |
| Hi-Shine Car Wash 1717 4th Ave NW | Minot, ND | — | — | 3.1 | 132 | $76K |
| Enerbase Corner Express 3630 S Broadway Suite B | Minot, ND | — | Enerbase Corner Express | 3.9 | 113 | $87K |
| Corner Express/Tunnel of Suds 3630 S Broadway suite b | Minot, ND | — | — | 3.9 | 40 | $87K |
| Mirror Finish Automotive Detailing 3332 20th Ave NW | Minot, ND | — | — | 4.8 | 36 | $76K |
| Midgard Automotive Detailing 400 46th Ave NE Unit 27 | Minot, ND | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 29 | $76K |
| Cale's Detailing 1905 3rd St NW | Minot, ND | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 29 | $76K |
| Toad's Ride'n'shine 1105 S Broadway | Minot, ND | — | — | 3.3 | 28 | $87K |
| Big Red Detailing Minot 17 23rd St NW | Minot, ND | — | — | 5.0 | 27 | $76K |
| ScratchWerkes | , ND | — | — | 5.0 | 22 | — |
| Sport Detailing 2852 Grey Eagle Pass | Minot, ND | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 20 | $76K |
| Enerbase South Broadway 1809 S Broadway | Minot, ND | — | Enerbase Corner Express | 3.3 | 19 | $87K |
| Chads Auto Repair 4505 E Burdick Expy | Minot, ND | — | — | 4.9 | 15 | $87K |
| GLINTS CARWASH 3 S Main St | Velva, ND | — | — | 3.8 | 12 | $85K |
| Burgess Detailing 1221 33rd Ave SW | Minot, ND | — | — | 4.8 | 8 | $87K |
| Tripple Js Performance 504 E Central Ave Suite B | Minot, ND | — | — | 5.0 | 7 | $76K |
| Moody AutoSpa 3305 4th St SW #4 | Minot, ND | — | — | 5.0 | 6 | $87K |
| Carwash 3rd St NW | Minot, ND | — | — | 3.2 | 5 | $76K |
| Grand Tour Car Wash 1310 E Burdick Expy | Minot, ND | — | — | 5.0 | 5 | $87K |
Compare Minot to other ND 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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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Minot car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/minot
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Car wash inventory for the Minot, ND CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 3 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 762 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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