Monroe Car Wash Market Analysis
Monroe, LA
Data updated · June 9, 2026
Monroe car wash market analysis: 93 locations, 3 chains, 3,329 customer reviews. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 93
- 94% independent
- Chains
- 3
- lead: Amerishine Car Wash (2 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.34★
- -0.07 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.4%
- 1.5× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 22.9%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 40% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 224,705
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 86,081
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,416
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 93 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 87 independents across 4 counties.
- Weighted Google rating 4.34★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 3,329 Google reviews, 803 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
93 car wash locations across 4 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Monroe reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 3 chains compete alongside 87 independents — typical mix for a market of 93 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 803 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 93-location market weighs in at 4.34★; damage rate 2.4%; cancel friction 22.9%. Wait time strong (0.78); equipment reliability weak (-0.59). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the top car wash chains in Monroe
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the Monroe metro, officially
Low-wageCar-wash wages in the Monroe metro run about 23% below the national average ($24,972 vs. $32,560), across 10 employer establishments and roughly 104 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 Monroe car wash market
How many car washes are in the Monroe metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Monroe metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Monroe?
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What is the average customer rating in the Monroe car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Monroe?
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What kinds of car washes does Monroe have?
Format counts below split Monroe's 93 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 4.41★ across 4 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 4.34★ (2 locations).
83 (89.2%) of 93 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 | 83 | 89.2% | 1,226 | 4.30 | 0.26% | 0.0% |
| Detail Shop | 4 | 4.3% | 271 | 4.41 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 4.3% | 862 | 4.38 | 7.11% | 29.7% |
| Full Service | 2 | 2.2% | 970 | 4.34 | 2.25% | — |
What is the household income near Monroe car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Monroe tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 30 qualifying locations: 0.02 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $63K AGI/return, 4.12★.
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 | 16 | 328 | 4.38 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 8 | 41 | 2,441 | 4.27 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 9 | 457 | 4.55 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 16 sites, 4.38★. Across Monroe's 30 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Monroe car washes?
3 chains run sites in Monroe; 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 | Amerishine Car Wash | 2 | 444 | 4.50 | 5.13% | — | 0.85% |
| 2 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 2 | 418 | 4.24 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Circle K | 2 | 51 | 3.29 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Monroe?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 4 counties of the Monroe, LA CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.51★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Ouachita County | 63 | 67.7% | 2,986 | 4.34 |
| Morehouse County | 14 | 15.1% | 156 | 4.18 |
| Union County | 8 | 8.6% | 166 | 4.69 |
| Richland County | 8 | 8.6% | 21 | 2.94 |
What do customers love and complain about in Monroe?
Seven aspects, 803 reviews, 93 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Monroe's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Monroe metro?
Top 25 car washes by review volume in Monroe. The full set of 93 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Car Wash West 3111 Cypress St | West Monroe, LA | Full Service | — | 4.5 | 705 | $70K |
| Rocket Lube & Car Wash 3310 Sterlington Rd | Monroe, LA | Full Service | — | 3.9 | 265 | $58K |
| Amerishine Car Wash 2220 Forsythe Ave | Monroe, LA | Express Tunnel | Amerishine Car Wash | 4.5 | 247 | $98K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 200 Thomas Rd | West Monroe, LA | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.2 | 234 | $70K |
| Redeemed Auto Body 2144 Jonesboro Rd | West Monroe, LA | — | — | 5.0 | 220 | $52K |
| Amerishine Car Wash 5203 Cypress St | West Monroe, LA | Express Tunnel | Amerishine Car Wash | 4.5 | 197 | $70K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 800 Sterlington Rd | Monroe, LA | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.3 | 184 | $58K |
| David's Mobile Detail & Wash LLC 2501 Washington St | Monroe, LA | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 112 | $98K |
| Southern Pride Wash 3601 Cypress St | West Monroe, LA | — | — | 3.0 | 109 | $70K |
| Snappy Carwash 5250 Cypress St | West Monroe, LA | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 103 | $70K |
| Prime Shine Auto Spa 1502 Martin Luther King Junior Drive | Monroe, LA | — | — | 4.9 | 91 | $28K |
| Car Wash HWY 165 South LLC 3010 US-165 | Monroe, LA | — | — | 4.2 | 87 | $28K |
| Lakeshore Carwash 8001 Desiard Street | Monroe, LA | — | — | 3.9 | 78 | $58K |
| Wild Wash 709 Sterlington Hwy | Farmerville, LA | — | — | 4.3 | 65 | $59K |
| Bastrop Tank Wash 9029 Coulter Dr | Bastrop, LA | — | — | 4.2 | 63 | $45K |
| L&L Mobile Detail | Monroe, LA | — | — | 4.9 | 62 | $98K |
| Swiftly Mobile Detailing | , LA | — | — | 5.0 | 54 | — |
| Bastrop Car Wash 1040 E Madison Ave | Bastrop, LA | — | — | 4.0 | 49 | $45K |
| Weekend Warrior Detailing | Ceramic Coating | Paint Correction | Auto Detailing | Liquid PPF 1940 Old Natchitoches Rd | West Monroe, LA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 39 | $52K |
| Town & Country Car Wash 3860 Old Sterlington Rd | Monroe, LA | — | — | 4.6 | 36 | $58K |
| Circle K 4200 Sterlington Rd | Monroe, LA | — | Circle K | 3.7 | 35 | $58K |
| Dixie Detail and Washouts 7829 LA-15 N | Farmerville, LA | — | — | 4.8 | 33 | $59K |
| Community Car Wash 1012 LA-557 | West Monroe, LA | — | — | 4.3 | 20 | $52K |
| MASTER CAR WASH 331 Forrest Ave | Bastrop, LA | — | — | 4.1 | 18 | $45K |
| Day and Night Detailing | Vehicle Wraps | Ceramic Coatings 1122 Hayes St | West Monroe, LA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 17 | $52K |
Compare Monroe to other LA 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). Monroe car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/monroe
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Car wash inventory for the Monroe, LA 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 803 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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