Metro by metro
The leading car wash chains in every Iowa metro area
Tracked car wash chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Mister Car Wash leads in 3 metro areas, Club Car Wash in 2 metro areas. Against their share in Iowa as a whole, Mister Car Wash stands out in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Mister Car Wash
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Des Moines, IA 1.6× · Cedar Rapids, IA 2.2×
Not enough tracked stores: Ames, IA · Dubuque, IA · Omaha, NE-IA (IA part) · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD (IA part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Davenport, IA (IA part) · Iowa City, IA · Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA
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Mister Car Wash
#1 in 3 metro areas
Des Moines, IA · Cedar Rapids, IA · Davenport, IA (IA part)
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Club Car Wash
#1 in 2 metro areas
Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA · Iowa City, IA
Not enough tracked stores: Ames, IA · Dubuque, IA · Omaha, NE-IA (IA part) · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD (IA part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked car wash chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Iowa compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Iowa as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Iowa and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Iowa is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Iowa. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
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. Mister Car Wash and Executive Laser Wash sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash | - | +9.8% |
| 2 | Executive Laser Wash | - | +7.4% |
| 3 | Clean Works Autowash | ▲2 | +1.5% |
| 4 | Club Car Wash | - | -1.1% |
| 5 | Miracle Car Wash | ▲1 | -2.3% |
| 6 | Champion Xpress Carwash | - | -71.7% |
| 7 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | ▼3 | -82.2% |
- Mister Car Wash
- Club Car Wash
- Executive Laser Wash
- Festival Car Wash
- Happy Hippo Car Wash
- Miracle Car Wash
- Oasis Car Wash
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
228 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 228 stores (19%); 154 of the 170 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 6% across the United States.
- Mister Car Wash (19)
- Club Car Wash (6)
- Executive Laser Wash (3)
- Festival Car Wash (1)
- Happy Hippo Car Wash (1)
- Miracle Car Wash (3)
- Oasis Car Wash (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Mister Car Wash 19
- 2 Champion Xpress Carwash 8
- 3 Club Car Wash 6
- 4 Tidal Wave Auto Spa 6
- 5 Super Wash 5
- 6 Ultimate Auto Wash 5
- 7 Classic Car Wash 3
- 8 Clean Works Autowash 3
- 9 Executive Laser Wash 3
- 10 Casey's Car Wash 3
- 11 Miracle Car Wash 3
- 12 Splash and Dash Express Carwash 2
- 13 Wild Water Car Wash & Pet Wash 2
- 14 Superior Car Wash 2
- 15 Tommy's Express Car Wash 2
- 16 Power Wash 2
- 17 Sparkle Car Wash 1
- 18 Cardinal Wash 1
- 19 Dutch Clean Autowash 1
- 20 Ultra No Touch Car Wash 1
- 21 Cathy's Car Wash 1
- 22 West End Car Wash 1
- 23 Ottumwa Wash Express 1
- 24 Leon Car Wash 1
- 25 Wonder Wash 1
- 26 Cruiser's Auto Spa 1
- 27 Wash and Go 1
- 28 Lazer Car Wash 1
- 29 Turbo Wash 1
- 30 Super Suds Auto Wash 1
- 31 Clarion Auto Wash 1
- 32 Classic Clean 1
- 33 Speed Clean Car Wash 1
- 34 Sutton's Car Wash 1
- 35 Monte Car Wash 1
- 36 Gilbert Car Wash 1
- 37 Johnny Boys Carwash 1
- 38 Sunnybrook Shine 1
- 39 Wash King Car Truck and Pet Wash 1
- 40 Laser Car Wash 1
- 41 Wash & Weigh 1
- 42 Wright Wash 1
- 43 Robin's Car Wash 1
- 44 Humboldt Auto Wash 1
- 45 Rubber Ducky Car Wash 1
- 46 Power Wash USA 1
- 47 Steve's Car Care Center 1
- 48 Wash-N-Go Car Wash 1
- 49 Riverside Auto Spa 1
- 50 Ride and Shine Car Wash 1
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