Texarkana Car Wash Market Analysis
Texarkana, TX-AR
Data updated · June 9, 2026
2,737 Google reviews across 65 car wash locations in this independent-heavy metro. Operator fragmentation, per-location detail, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 65
- 97% independent
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Cave Wave Car Wash (1 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.31★
- -0.10 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 2.0%
- 1.2× national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 26.7%
- Top format
- full service
- 33% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $49.99
- range $15–$49.99
- Median unlimited
- $29.97/mo
- cheapest $29.97/mo at Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 146,868
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 55,902
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,260
- 1.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.4
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 65 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 63 independents across 3 counties.
- 96.9% of locations operate as independents — above the 87.1% peer median (chain rollup has not yet consolidated supply).
- Built from 2,737 Google reviews, 665 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
65 car wash locations across 3 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Chain rollup has barely touched Texarkana's car wash market. Top-10 chain share of 3.1% runs 8.3 points below the US-metro median. Roll-up activity, if it's happening here, hasn't yet reshaped the operator mix in any visible way.
Rating 4.31★ weighted across 65 sites; damage 2.0%; cancel friction 26.7%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.70/+1). Because chain rollup is shallow here, the location-level table below is more useful than the operator rank.
Published pricing across the 2 of 65 Texarkana locations with menus available: median single car wash $49.99 (range $15–$49.99), median unlimited membership $29.97/month (range $29.97–$29.97/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $29.97/mo at Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash (Simply Clean).
See the top car wash chains in Texarkana
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Texarkana metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Texarkana metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 65 tracked locations have usable published pricing (3% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Texarkana | ||
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| 1 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Texarkana | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
| 2 | Classic Car Wash & Lube Center Works Plus | $49.99 |
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.
The car wash industry in the Texarkana metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Texarkana metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 15% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 15, now employing about 97 people at a $24,883 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 Texarkana car wash market
How many car washes are in the Texarkana metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Texarkana metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Texarkana?
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What is the average customer rating in the Texarkana car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Texarkana?
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How much does a car wash cost in Texarkana?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Texarkana?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Texarkana?
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What kinds of car washes does Texarkana have?
In a market this fragmented, format counts genuinely reflect customer demand rather than corporate strategy. Detail shops, self-serve bays, and full-service operators each carry real volume — useful for understanding how the city's drivers actually wash their cars.
Highest-rated format: Detail Shop at 4.91★ across 2 locations. Lowest-rated: Full Service at 4.32★ (2 locations).
59 (90.8%) of 65 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 | 59 | 90.8% | 890 | 4.07 | 1.28% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 2 | 3.1% | 1,161 | 4.32 | 0.63% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 3.1% | 487 | 4.49 | 3.83% | 27.6% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 3.1% | 199 | 4.91 | 0.00% | — |
What is the household income near Texarkana car washes?
23 locations from across Texarkana are plotted below against their ZIP's mean IRS AGI per return. In a market this fragmented, the rating-vs-income relationship is usually weak — operating quality is the dominant variable, not neighborhood income.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 23 qualifying locations: -0.06 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $65K AGI/return, 4.09★.
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 | 20 | 1,362 | 4.36 | Detail Shop (2) |
| $50K – $75K | 8 | 17 | 672 | 4.11 | Full Service (1) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 9 | 646 | 4.38 | Express Tunnel (2) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Spread across income tiers: 0 sites at the top (0.00★) vs. 20 at the bottom (4.36★). Fragmented supply means operator execution drives the per-tier variance more than neighborhood income does.
Who operates the most Texarkana car washes?
2 chains carry the 3.1% chain share of Texarkana's 65 locations. Per-chain ratings, damage rates, and membership signals below help separate the strong sub-scale operators from the weak ones.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cave Wave Car Wash | 1 | 145 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 342 | 4.70 | 2.31% | — | 0.46% |
Which counties have the most car washes in Texarkana?
Counties below are ranked by location count. With independents running 96.9% of supply in Texarkana, expect the rating column to show wider county-to-county variance than chain-heavy markets do.
Cross-county rating dispersion: 0.10★ between the highest- and lowest-rated counties with meaningful sample size.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Bowie County | 53 | 81.5% | 2,231 | 4.33 |
| Miller County | 9 | 13.8% | 499 | 4.23 |
| Little River County | 3 | 4.6% | 7 | 3.14 |
What do customers love and complain about in Texarkana?
The aspect spread (0.70 on staff → -0.72 on equipment reliability) tells you which aspects are reliable in Texarkana and which are not.
Where are all the car washes in the Texarkana metro?
96.9% of Texarkana's 65 locations are independents. The top-locations table below typically mixes a handful of chain sites with a tail of high-volume independent operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Classic Car Wash & Lube Center 4211 Mall Dr | Texarkana, TX | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 695 | $50K |
| TWA Truck Wash 8302 State Hwy 108 | Texarkana, AR | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 466 | $64K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 4305 N State Line Ave | Texarkana, TX | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.7 | 342 | $104K |
| Evolutionz Auto Salon Texarkana 317 Brookwood Dr | Texarkana, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 188 | $50K |
| Cave Wave Car Wash 2705 Richmond Rd | Texarkana, TX | Express Tunnel | Cave Wave Car Wash | 4.0 | 145 | $104K |
| Big Rig Truck & RV Wash 450 Leary Rd | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 3.9 | 122 | $50K |
| Wet Willy's Car Wash 1302 College Dr | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.1 | 103 | $104K |
| Haley's Body Shop 530 Sowell Ln | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.5 | 97 | $50K |
| Wet Willy's 3311 New Boston Rd | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.0 | 97 | $50K |
| Car Wash 1502 N Kings Hwy | Nash, TX | — | — | 3.4 | 62 | $53K |
| SEVCO CAR WASH 3321 New Boston Rd | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 3.9 | 58 | $50K |
| Juniors car wash 107- USA, 199 N Bowie St | New Boston, TX | — | — | 3.9 | 42 | $58K |
| JR.'S Mobile CAR WASH AND DETAIL 619 N Runnels St | De Kalb, TX | — | — | 5.0 | 30 | $61K |
| Neighborhood Car Wash 1520 Richmond Rd | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 3.0 | 27 | $104K |
| East Texas Wash Pros | , TX | — | — | 5.0 | 27 | — |
| Water U Doing 408 Walton Dr | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.1 | 27 | $50K |
| Eddie Hill Car Care 1702 Spruce St | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.6 | 18 | $50K |
| O T's Car Wash 8490 W 7th St | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 3.4 | 18 | $50K |
| Town North Car Wash and Self Storage 700 N Monster Expy | Fouke, AR | — | — | 4.3 | 15 | $56K |
| Washing Well Car Wash 3304 N State Line Ave | Texarkana, AR | — | — | 3.7 | 15 | $64K |
| Twin City Car Wash Systems 3415 N State Line Ave | Texarkana, TX | — | — | 4.5 | 15 | $104K |
| Crump's Clean Up Services 310 SE Front St | New Boston, TX | — | — | 4.0 | 12 | $58K |
| C & A Auto Detailing 420 W 7th St | Texarkana, TX | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 11 | $50K |
| Redwater Carwash 112 Red River Rd S | Maud, TX | — | — | 2.6 | 10 | $58K |
| Foster’s Auto Detail 622 East St | Texarkana, AR | — | — | 5.0 | 8 | $64K |
Compare Texarkana to other TX 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). Texarkana car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/texarkana
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Car wash inventory for the Texarkana, TX-AR 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 665 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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