St. George Car Wash Market Analysis
St. George, UT
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of St. George's car wash market built from 17,044 Google reviews across 215 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 215
- 90% independent
- Chains
- 9
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (6 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.58★
- +0.17 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.2%
- 1.3× below national norm
- Cancel friction
- 7.1%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 53% of classified inventory
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 189,827
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 66,914
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 883
- 2.2× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.1
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 215 car wash locations operated by 9 chains and 194 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.58★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 17,044 Google reviews, 6,685 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
215 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
St. George's car wash market reads as US-metro-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 215 locations across 9 chains and 194 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 215-location market weighs in at 4.58★; damage rate 1.2%; cancel friction 7.1%. Staff strong (0.91); equipment reliability weak (-0.25). 17,044 Google reviews drive the analysis, 6,685 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the top car wash chains in St. George
Ranked by location count in the metro
The car wash industry in the St. George metro, officially
Fast-growingthe St. George metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 13% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 27, now employing about 360 people at a $17,731 average 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 St. George car wash market
How many car washes are in the St. George metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the St. George metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in St. George?
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What is the average customer rating in the St. George car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in St. George?
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What kinds of car washes does St. George 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. St. George's mix sits close to the US-metro median shape.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.94★ across 19 locations. Lowest-rated: Self-Serve Bay at 4.39★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 19 | 8.8% | 1,603 | 4.94 | 0.49% | 20.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 14 | 6.5% | 10,050 | 4.74 | 1.53% | 7.3% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 0.9% | 448 | 4.39 | 0.95% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 0.5% | 35 | 4.40 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near St. George car washes?
Each ZIP in St. George is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 57 qualifying locations: 0.06 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $90K AGI/return, 4.59★.
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 | 2 | 13 | 1,981 | 4.54 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 3 | 78 | 13,656 | 4.57 | Detail Shop (14) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 4 | 431 | 4.70 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $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 St. George car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in St. George 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 |
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| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 6 | 3,955 | 4.75 | 0.87% | 5.7% | 0.82% |
| 2 | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 5 | 4,151 | 4.70 | 2.58% | 9.1% | 0.39% |
| 3 | Dino Dash Car Wash | 3 | 1,944 | 4.81 | 1.56% | 8.3% | 0.26% |
| 4 | Fabulous Freddy's | 2 | 874 | 3.96 | 3.31% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | The Auto Spa | 1 | 234 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Dapper Pros Mobile Auto Detailing | 1 | 16 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Onsite Detail | 1 | 86 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Veteran Detail | 1 | 36 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Chevron | 1 | 484 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in St. George?
Counties of the St. George CBSA are listed below by car wash count. Washington 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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| Washington County | 219 | 101.9% | 17,044 | 4.58 |
What do customers love and complain about in St. George?
Seven aspects, 6,685 reviews, 215 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience St. George's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are all the car washes in the St. George metro?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the St. George 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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| Tagg-N-Go Car Wash 1506 S River Rd | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,095 | $99K |
| Dino Dash Car Wash 2054 E Riverside Dr | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Dino Dash Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,095 | $99K |
| Tagg-N-Go Car Wash 3072 E 750 N | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,017 | $99K |
| Tagg-N-Go Car Wash 1062 W Sunset Blvd | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,014 | $81K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 29 S River Rd | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 860 | $99K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 834 W Buena Vista Blvd | Washington, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 728 | $95K |
| Tagg-N-Go Car Wash 88 N 3400 W | Hurricane, UT | Express Tunnel | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 4.7 | 651 | $75K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 540 W State St | Hurricane, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 640 | $75K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1284 W Sunset Blvd | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 630 | $81K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 2828 Mall Dr | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 611 | $99K |
| Dino Dash Car Wash 575 N Dixie Dr | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Dino Dash Car Wash | 4.8 | 608 | $81K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1182 S Bluff St | St. George, UT | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 486 | $81K |
| Chevron - Terrible's 4655 S Pioneer Rd | St. George, UT | — | Chevron | 4.2 | 484 | $99K |
| Fabulous Freddy's Car Wash 806 N Bluff St | St. George, UT | — | Fabulous Freddy's | 4.1 | 462 | $81K |
| Fabulous Freddy's Car Wash 134 S River Rd | St. George, UT | — | Fabulous Freddy's | 3.8 | 412 | $99K |
| Tagg-N-Go Car Wash 3488 Pioneer Pkwy | Santa Clara, UT | Express Tunnel | Tagg-N-Go Car Wash | 4.7 | 374 | $109K |
| Rowley's Platinum Car Wash & Detail 471 W Telegraph St | Washington, UT | — | — | 4.2 | 352 | $95K |
| Renu Auto Detail 1549 Arabian Ct | Washington, UT | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 342 | $95K |
| Red Mountain Car & Dog Wash 560 W 300 N | St. George, UT | — | — | 4.0 | 322 | $81K |
| Red Mountain Car & RV Wash 557 W State St | Hurricane, UT | — | — | 3.2 | 277 | $75K |
| Red Dirt Car Wash 791 N 3050 E | St. George, UT | — | — | 3.6 | 261 | $99K |
| Dino Dash Car Wash 125 Washington Pkwy | Washington, UT | Express Tunnel | Dino Dash Car Wash | 4.9 | 241 | $95K |
| Bubble Bath Car Wash & Dog Wash 538 S 1990 E St | St. George, UT | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.3 | 240 | $99K |
| The Auto Spa 4346 W Abbey Rd Unit 21 | Hurricane, UT | Detail Shop | The Auto Spa | 5.0 | 234 | $75K |
| Ultra-Wash 766 S River Rd | St. George, UT | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.5 | 208 | $99K |
Compare St. George to other UT 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). St. George car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/st-george
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} About this analysis
Car wash inventory for the St. George, UT 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 6,685 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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