Sierra Vista Car Wash Market Analysis
Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Sierra Vista's car wash market built from 4,966 Google reviews across 54 locations. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 54
- 94% independent
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Sierra Toyota (2 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.29★
- -0.12 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.1%
- 1.4× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 13.3%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 67% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$10
- Median unlimited
- $60/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 125,458
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 50,476
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,323
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.2
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 54 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 51 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.29★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 4,966 Google reviews, 934 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
54 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Sierra Vista sits near the center of the US-metro distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 54 locations across 2 chains and 51 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Customer-experience signals across 934 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.29★; damage 2.1%; membership-cancel friction 13.3%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.61). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 2 of 55 Sierra Vista locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$10), median unlimited membership $60/month (range $22.99–$60/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the top car wash chains in Sierra Vista
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Sierra Vista metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Sierra Vista metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 55 tracked locations have usable published pricing (4% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Sierra Vista | ||
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99 per mo |
| 2 | Yombes Hand Wash Small Cars | $60 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Sierra Vista | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
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.
About the Sierra Vista car wash market
How many car washes are in the Sierra Vista metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Sierra Vista metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Sierra Vista?
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What is the average customer rating in the Sierra Vista car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Sierra Vista?
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How much does a car wash cost in Sierra Vista?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Sierra Vista?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Sierra Vista?
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What kinds of car washes does Sierra Vista have?
Format counts below split Sierra Vista's 54 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: Express Tunnel at 4.20★ across 1 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 3.60★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 7.4% | 529 | 4.16 | 0.59% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 1.9% | 466 | 3.60 | 4.50% | 33.3% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 1.9% | 1,058 | 4.20 | 5.64% | 10.5% |
What is the household income near Sierra Vista car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Sierra Vista tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 20 qualifying locations: -0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $61K AGI/return, 4.20★.
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 | 1 | 6 | 136 | 4.51 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 6 | 23 | 4,462 | 4.26 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 4 | 162 | 4.37 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 6/4.51★ 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 Sierra Vista car washes?
2 chains run sites in Sierra Vista; 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 | Sierra Toyota | 2 | 1,774 | 4.70 | 0.54% | — | 0.00% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 1,058 | 4.20 | 5.64% | 10.5% | 1.03% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Sierra Vista?
Counties of the Sierra Vista CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Cochise 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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| Cochise County | 55 | 101.9% | 4,966 | 4.29 |
What do customers love and complain about in Sierra Vista?
Seven aspects, 934 reviews, 54 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Sierra Vista's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the Sierra Vista metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Sierra Vista 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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| Mister Car Wash 3850 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy | Sierra Vista, AZ | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 1,058 | $60K |
| Sierra Toyota Service Center 2596 E Fry Blvd | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | Sierra Toyota | 4.7 | 983 | $60K |
| Sierra Toyota 2596 E Fry Blvd | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | Sierra Toyota | 4.7 | 791 | $60K |
| The Wash Works Auto Spa & Detail 674 AZ-92 | Sierra Vista, AZ | Full Service | — | 3.6 | 466 | $60K |
| Exit 340 Truck and RV Wash 701 Virginia Ave | Willcox, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 309 | $57K |
| Super Suds Car Wash 1030 W 4th St | Benson, AZ | — | — | 3.5 | 221 | $58K |
| Sierra Vista Self Storage and Carwash 900 E Wilcox Dr | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | — | 4.1 | 203 | $60K |
| Elite Auto Detail sv(mobile) | , AZ | — | — | 4.9 | 162 | — |
| Yombes Hand Wash 4750 AZ-90 | Sierra Vista, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 137 | $60K |
| Junior's Car Wash 437 E 12th St | Douglas, AZ | — | — | 4.4 | 98 | $39K |
| Desert Carwash 402 W Rex Allen Dr | Willcox, AZ | — | — | 4.0 | 93 | $57K |
| South 92 Car Wash 1706 AZ-92 | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | — | 3.1 | 55 | $60K |
| Commander Clean 5962 S Camino Del Amor | Hereford, AZ | — | — | 5.0 | 50 | $80K |
| Desert Rain Detail 107 N Huachuca Blvd | Huachuca City, AZ | — | — | 4.7 | 48 | $52K |
| D&k Carwash (Self serv) 4025 E Glisch Rd | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | — | 2.5 | 41 | $86K |
| Maxx Mobile Detail 2225 E Cherokee Way | Sierra Vista, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 39 | $86K |
| The Wash SV 77 N 7th St | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | — | 3.4 | 35 | $60K |
| Sunsites Car Wash 1298 EastJustin St | Pearce, AZ | — | — | 4.6 | 32 | $59K |
| FAST Mobile Detailing 2431 S Suncrest Dr | Sierra Vista, AZ | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 32 | $86K |
| HM Mobile Carwash Mobile service, 1305 E 14th St | Douglas, AZ | — | — | 5.0 | 20 | $39K |
| Magic Touch Mobile Detailing | , AZ | — | — | 5.0 | 20 | — |
| Othon's Car Wash 1801 11th St | Douglas, AZ | — | — | 4.4 | 13 | $39K |
| 5 Star Car Wash 4029 E Glisch Rd | Sierra Vista, AZ | — | — | 1.9 | 9 | $60K |
| Cole’s Detailing LLC | , AZ | — | — | 3.9 | 7 | — |
| Solis Detailing 911 E 7th St | Douglas, AZ | — | — | 5.0 | 5 | $39K |
Compare Sierra Vista to other AZ 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, May 22). Sierra Vista car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/sierra-vista
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Car wash inventory for the Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ CBSA is determined by point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024) for the 1 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 934 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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