Quality-outlier car wash market analysis for Oklahoma City: 832 sites, 52,102 reviews, sharp deviation from chain-category norms. Per-operator damage attribution, format-level quality decomposition, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
Locations
832
89% independent
Chains
23
lead: Okie Express Auto Wash (18 sites)
Avg rating
4.26★
-0.15 vs national MSA median
Damage rate
3.0%
1.9× national MSA norm
Cancel friction
14.0%
Top format
detail shop
43% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
Population
1,445,122
ACS 2023 5-year
Households
562,932
ACS 2023 5-year
Residents per wash
1,737
near the national MSA median
Express tunnels per 10K households
0.9
in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
832 car wash locations operated by 23 chains and 740 independents across 7 counties.
Reviewer-reported damage rate of 3.0% runs 1.9× above the 1.6% US-metro median.
Built from 52,102 Google reviews, 15,078 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
832 car wash locations across 7 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Locations
832
Chains
23
+ 740 independents
Reviews
52K
Avg Rating
4.26
Damage Rate
2.98%
Median AGI/return
$68K
location-weighted
Executive Read
Oklahoma City stands out for operational-quality signals that are above the typical US metro norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 3.0% across 832 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. Reading the operator-level breakdown below shows which segments drive the outlier signal.
Average rating 4.26★ (below 4.41★ peer median); cancel friction 14.0%. Equipment reliability runs at -0.52 — the sharpest pain point measurable from these reviews. 52,102 Google reviews underpin the quality cut, 15,078 AI-extracted.
The car wash industry in the Oklahoma City metro, officially
the Oklahoma City metro has 102 car-wash employer establishments employing about 1,135 people, at a $29,726 average annual wage.
Employer establishments
102
NAICS 811192 · 2024
Industry jobs
1,135
private, annual avg
Avg annual wage
$29,726
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 Oklahoma City metro
Build-out market
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 32 car-wash loans in the Oklahoma City metro worth $23.6M, at a $457,000 median per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. The mix tilts toward new construction — 41% of loans funded brand-new washes, above the 33% national norm — pointing to a market where operators are still adding supply.
SBA loans
32
FY2010–2024
Total approved
$23.6M
7(a) + 504
Median loan
$457K
per car wash
Charge-off rate
0.0%
of 20 resolved
SBA car-wash loans approved per fiscal year
Loans by county
Oklahoma18
Canadian8
Cleveland5
Logan1
What the loans fund · estimated from loan terms
New build / open41% · $1.0M
Acquisition3% · $1.0M
Expansion / improvement53% · $395K
Working capital3% · $25K
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 Oklahoma City car wash market
How many car washes are in the Oklahoma City metro?
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There are 832 car wash locations across the Oklahoma City, OK CBSA, spanning 7 counties.
What is the best-rated car wash in the Oklahoma City metro?
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Champion Detailing OKC in Yukon, OK is the highest-rated car wash in the Oklahoma City metro at 5.0★ across 412 Google reviews (filtering to locations with at least 100 reviews).
Which car wash chain has the most locations in Oklahoma City?
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Okie Express Auto Wash has the most locations in the Oklahoma City metro with 18 sites, followed by Club Car Wash (16 sites). The metro has 23 multi-location operators in total, alongside 740 independent or single-location sites.
What is the average customer rating in the Oklahoma City car wash market?
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The review-weighted average rating across all 832 car washes in the Oklahoma City metro is 4.26★, based on 52,102 Google reviews processed through WashIndex's customer-experience pipeline.
What is the typical household income near car washes in Oklahoma City?
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Across the ZIP codes containing the Oklahoma City metro's car washes, the location-weighted median IRS-reported AGI per tax return is $68K (tax year 2022) — a rough proxy for trade-area household income.
01Format Mix
What kinds of car washes does Oklahoma City have?
Format counts below show how Oklahoma City stacks formats. In quality-outlier markets, the more interesting cut is usually the damage-rate column rather than the count column — that's where the operating story shows up.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.69★ across 51 locations.
Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 3.86★ (4 locations).
712 (85.6%)
of 832 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
712
85.6%
24,193
4.16
2.14%
16.1%
Detail Shop
51
6.1%
4,349
4.69
0.70%
0.0%
Express Tunnel
48
5.8%
16,382
4.42
4.65%
13.4%
Full Service
10
1.2%
5,859
4.00
3.39%
13.3%
Self-Serve Bay
7
0.8%
1,053
3.91
2.38%
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In-Bay Automatic
4
0.5%
266
3.86
0.00%
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02Income & Demographics
What is the household income near Oklahoma City car washes?
Income-vs-rating is the most useful structural-context cut for Oklahoma City's elevated quality signal: it lets you see whether the damage/quality outlier is income-correlated or operator-correlated.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 288 qualifying locations: -0.03 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income.
Scatter mean: $76K AGI/return, 4.21★.
Detail Shop Express Tunnel Full Service Self-Serve Bay In-Bay Automatic
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
16
109
12,254
4.25
Express Tunnel (15)
$50K – $75K
27
151
17,432
4.18
Detail Shop (17)
$75K – $100K
18
100
10,947
4.21
Detail Shop (10)
$100K – $150K
9
79
6,227
4.29
Detail Shop (11)
$150K+
5
15
1,956
4.37
Express Tunnel (2)
Per-tier dispersion: 15/4.37★ at the top, 109/4.25★ at the bottom. For Oklahoma City's quality-outlier signal, this is the income-attribution view: which income bands carry the deviation, and which match the broader peer norms.
03Dominant Chains
Who operates the most Oklahoma City car washes?
In a quality-outlier market like Oklahoma City, the chain rank below is the cleanest attribution cut: which chains pull the metro damage rate up vs. down, and which sit in line. The damage and cancel columns are the columns to read here.
Which counties have the most car washes in Oklahoma City?
Reading the county breakdown below in a quality-outlier market is mainly an attribution exercise: does the metro's elevated damage signal concentrate in specific counties, or is it spread across them?
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.65★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
What do customers love and complain about in Oklahoma City?
15,078 reviews back the aspect calculation. In a quality-outlier metro, the aspect with the sharpest negative score is usually the one pulling the metro-wide damage and rating numbers.
Staff+0.76
Wash Quality+0.62
Facility Cleanliness+0.56
Wait Time+0.54
Per-Wash Price+0.15
Membership Value+0.06
Equipment Working-0.52
06All Locations
Where are all the car washes in the Oklahoma City metro?
Locations are ranked by review volume; rating, format, chain, and ZIP income are shown. The sites at the top of this list are the ones whose ratings carry the most weight in the metro-wide average.
Data as of 2026-09-26.
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APA
WashIndex. (2026, September 26). Oklahoma City car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/oklahoma-city
Chicago
WashIndex. "Oklahoma City car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified September 26, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/oklahoma-city.
MLA
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BibTeX
@misc{washindex_car_wash_markets_oklahoma_city_2026,
title = {{Oklahoma City car wash market analysis}},
author = {{WashIndex}},
year = {2026},
month = {Sep},
url = {https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/oklahoma-city},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
}
About this analysis
Car wash inventory for the Oklahoma City, OK CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the
official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 7 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 15,078 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.
The free WashIndex platform shows every Oklahoma City car wash on an interactive map, with the same review-derived
signals and demographic overlays that power this analysis. Filter by format, drive-time, or operator and compare any
location head-to-head with its true competitive set.