Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 354 stores from 203 car wash chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Tjs Carwash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sparkling Image Car Wash and Quick N Clean Car Wash.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
203
Tracked stores
354
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car wash chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Tjs Carwash and Sparkling Image Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Tjs Carwash ▲2 +16.8%
2 Sparkling Image Car Wash ▲1 +16.6%
3 Quick N Clean Car Wash - +11.4%
4 Rich's Car Wash ▲1 +10.6%
5 H-E-B Car Wash - +8.9%
6 WhiteWater Express Car Wash ▲1 +8.0%
7 Mister Car Wash - -19.3%
8 iShine Express Car Wash & Detail ▼1 -22.6%
9 Ocean Car Wash - -41.6%
10 ClearWater Express Wash ▼2 -57.6%
11 Tidal Wave Auto Spa ▼2 -80.0%
  • H-E-B Car Wash
  • Mister Car Wash
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash
  • BlueWave Express Car Wash
  • Zoom Car Wash
  • Sparkling Image Car Wash
  • ClearWater Express Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

354 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 113 of the 354 stores (32%); 173 of the 203 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, the same share as across Texas.

  • H-E-B Car Wash (24)
  • Mister Car Wash (48)
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash (19)
  • BlueWave Express Car Wash (14)
  • Zoom Car Wash (3)
  • Sparkling Image Car Wash (5)
  • ClearWater Express Wash (8)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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