Vallejo Car Wash Market Analysis
Vallejo, CA
Data updated · June 9, 2026
18,410 Google reviews across 224 car washes in 1 Vallejo counties. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 224
- 85% independent
- Chains
- 9
- lead: 7 Flags Express Car Wash (10 sites)
- Avg rating
- 4.51★
- +0.10 vs national MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.4%
- near national MSA norm
- Cancel friction
- 5.5%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 28% of classified inventory
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $10–$25
- Median unlimited
- $23.99/mo
- cheapest $17/mo at Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 450,824
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 155,800
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,013
- near the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.4
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 224 car wash locations operated by 9 chains and 190 independents across 1 county.
- Weighted Google rating 4.51★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-metro norms.
- Built from 18,410 Google reviews, 5,343 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
224 car wash locations across 1 counties · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 224 car wash locations, Vallejo matches the structural profile of the typical US metro of comparable size. 224 locations across 9 chains and 190 independents, distributed across 1 counties. Customer-experience signals across 5,343 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 4.51★; damage 1.4%; membership-cancel friction 5.5%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.20). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 23 of 228 Vallejo locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $10–$25), median unlimited membership $23.99/month (range $17–$37.95/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the metro is $17/mo at Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant (Unlimited Wash Plan).
See the top car wash chains in Vallejo
Ranked by location count in the metro
What does a car wash cost in the Vallejo metro?
Published menu pricing for car washes in the Vallejo metropolitan area, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 23 of 228 tracked locations have usable published pricing (10% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Vallejo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant Unlimited Wash Plan | $17 per mo |
| 2 | Loop Neighborhood Market Works | $20 per mo |
| 3 | 7 Flags Full Service Car Wash Bronze | $23.99 per mo |
| 4 | 7 Flags Full & Self Service Car Wash & Detail Center - Valle Vista, Vallejo Bronze | $23.99 per mo |
| 5 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $23.99 per mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Vallejo | ||
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| 1 | Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant Express Wash | $10 |
| 2 | 7 Flags Full Service Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
| 3 | 7 Flags Full & Self Service Car Wash & Detail Center - Valle Vista, Vallejo Bronze | $12 |
| 4 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
| 5 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash Bronze | $12 |
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 Vallejo metro, officially
Fast-growingthe Vallejo metro is one of the faster-growing car-wash job markets: employer establishments grew 25% from 2022 to 2024 — ahead of the ~7% national pace — to 25, now employing about 353 people at a $32,060 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 Vallejo car wash market
How many car washes are in the Vallejo metro?
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What is the best-rated car wash in the Vallejo metro?
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Which car wash chain has the most locations in Vallejo?
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What is the average customer rating in the Vallejo car wash market?
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What is the typical household income near car washes in Vallejo?
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How much does a car wash cost in Vallejo?
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How much does an unlimited car wash membership cost in Vallejo?
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What is the cheapest car wash in Vallejo?
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What kinds of car washes does Vallejo have?
Format counts below split Vallejo's 224 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 4.83★ across 6 locations. Lowest-rated: In-Bay Automatic at 3.64★ (11 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 13 | 5.8% | 1,402 | 4.60 | 0.89% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 11 | 4.9% | 4,250 | 4.32 | 4.22% | 9.9% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 11 | 4.9% | 768 | 3.64 | 0.00% | 100.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 2.7% | 7,850 | 4.83 | 1.15% | 4.2% |
| Full Service | 5 | 2.2% | 1,206 | 3.98 | 3.33% | 0.0% |
What is the household income near Vallejo car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Vallejo tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and Google rating across 79 qualifying locations: -0.06 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income. Scatter mean: $88K AGI/return, 4.19★.
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 | 5 | 60 | 5,468 | 4.29 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 4 | 42 | 8,675 | 4.57 | In-Bay Automatic (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 38 | 3,589 | 4.64 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Vallejo car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Vallejo 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 | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 10 | 4,027 | 4.32 | 4.33% | 9.9% | 1.59% |
| 2 | Shell | 6 | 517 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 5 | 7,556 | 4.85 | 0.86% | 4.8% | 0.13% |
| 4 | Chevron | 4 | 147 | 2.85 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 76 | 4 | 217 | 3.85 | — | — | — |
| 6 | 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center | 2 | 916 | 3.85 | 2.89% | — | 1.16% |
| 7 | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 1 | 22 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant | 1 | 294 | 4.30 | 7.25% | — | 0.72% |
| 9 | Loop Neighborhood Market | 1 | 24 | 2.20 | — | — | — |
Which counties have the most car washes in Vallejo?
The table below splits the metro's car wash inventory across the 1 counties of the Vallejo, CA CBSA, with location count, total reviews, and weighted-average rating per county.
| County | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| Solano County | 228 | 101.8% | 18,410 | 4.51 |
What do customers love and complain about in Vallejo?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are all the car washes in the Vallejo metro?
224 car washes are tracked in Vallejo; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 1471 Holiday Ln | Fairfield, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,966 | $120K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 5001 Walnut Rd | Vacaville, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,904 | $86K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 849 Davis St | Vacaville, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 1,591 | $86K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 220 Dorset Ct | Dixon, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,181 | $88K |
| 7 Flags Full Service Car Wash 2270 N Texas St | Fairfield, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 918 | $71K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1305 N Lincoln St | Dixon, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 914 | $88K |
| 7 Flags Full & Self Service Car Wash & Detail Center - Valle Vista, Vallejo 135 Valle Vista Ave #2951 | Vallejo, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.2 | 849 | $61K |
| 7 Flags Express Car Wash 1337 E Monte Vista Ave | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 538 | $109K |
| Vallejo Car Wash 1 Admiral Callaghan Ln | Vallejo, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.2 | 518 | $84K |
| Volkswagen of Fairfield 2855 Auto Mall Pkwy | Fairfield, CA | — | — | 4.5 | 470 | $71K |
| 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center 900 E Travis Blvd | Fairfield, CA | Full Service | 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center | 4.0 | 462 | $71K |
| 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center 520 Orange Dr | Vacaville, CA | Full Service | 5 Star Car Wash & Detail Center | 3.7 | 454 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Express Car Wash 108 Elmira Rd | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.1 | 362 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Self-Service Car Wash - Springs Rd 2020 Springs Rd | Vallejo, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 357 | $84K |
| Crash Champions Collision Repair Cole Road 1950 Walters Ct | Fairfield, CA | — | — | 4.7 | 346 | $71K |
| 7 Flags Express Car Wash 1206 N Texas St | Fairfield, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.7 | 307 | $71K |
| Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant 1281 Anderson Dr | Suisun City, CA | Express Tunnel | Zip Thru Express Car Wash - Free Wash - ask Attendant | 4.3 | 294 | $71K |
| 7 Flags Express Carwash 2035 Solano Ave | Vallejo, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 233 | $61K |
| Squeaky Clean Car Wash is OPEN all Holidays 480 Benicia Rd | Vallejo, CA | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.3 | 223 | $61K |
| Alamo Lane 100 % Hand Car Wash 760 Alamo Ln | Vacaville, CA | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 223 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Self Service Car Wash 1300 Callen St | Vacaville, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.2 | 175 | $109K |
| Shell 708 Admiral Callaghan Ln | Vallejo, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.6 | 169 | $84K |
| Dent Express 801 Davis St | Vacaville, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 168 | $86K |
| 7 Flags Self-Service Car Wash - Benicia 451 E O St | Benicia, CA | Self-Serve Bay | 7 Flags Express Car Wash | 4.2 | 163 | $128K |
| Hometown Car Wash (100% Hand-Car Wash) 1634 N Texas St | Fairfield, CA | — | — | 3.9 | 157 | $71K |
Compare Vallejo to other CA car wash markets
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Vallejo car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-markets/vallejo
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Car wash inventory for the Vallejo, CA 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 5,343 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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