Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 121 stores from 52 car wash chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Brown Bear Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Elephant Car Wash and 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
52
Tracked stores
121
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. Brown Bear Car Wash and Elephant Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Brown Bear Car Wash - +15.2%
2 Elephant Car Wash - +3.8%
3 Car Wash ▲1 -31.9%
4 Glint Car Wash ▼1 -95.3%
  • Brown Bear Car Wash
  • Shur-Kleen Car Wash
  • Elephant Car Wash
  • Classy Chassis
  • Wet Rabbit Express Car Wash
  • The Wave Car Wash
  • Wet Rabbit Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

121 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 69 of the 121 stores (57%); 42 of the 52 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, the same share as across Washington.

  • Brown Bear Car Wash (34)
  • Shur-Kleen Car Wash (2)
  • Elephant Car Wash (15)
  • Classy Chassis (7)
  • Wet Rabbit Express Car Wash (2)
  • The Wave Car Wash (1)
  • Wet Rabbit Car Wash (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Brown Bear Car Wash 34
  • 2 Elephant Car Wash 15
  • 3 Car Wash 8
  • 4 Classy Chassis 7
  • 5 Glint Car Wash 5
  • 6 Pony Express 2
  • 7 Speedi Car Wash 2
  • 8 Aloha Car Wash Company 2
  • 9 Wet Rabbit Express Car Wash 2
  • 10 Shur-Kleen Car Wash 2
  • 11 Sasquatch Car Wash Bonney Lake 1
  • 12 Green Clean 1
  • 13 Power Wash 1
  • 14 Papa Bear's Car Wash 1
  • 15 Mercer Island Auto Spa 1
  • 16 Airport Touchless Car Wash 1
  • 17 Sud City Car Wash 1
  • 18 Kenmore Car Wash 1
  • 19 Kingsgate Car Wash 1
  • 20 Flamingo Car Wash 1
  • 21 Clean Spot Car Wash Marysville 1
  • 22 Splash & Dash Car Wash 1
  • 23 Blue Dolphin Car Wash 1
  • 24 The Clean Machine 1
  • 25 Mr Sudsy Carwash 1
  • 26 Brothers Car Wash 1
  • 27 Quick Quack Car Wash 1
  • 28 Duck Duck Wash 1
  • 29 Suds City Car Wash 1
  • 30 Chevron Car Wash 1
  • 31 Meridian Car Wash 1
  • 32 The Wave Car Wash 1
  • 33 Wet Rabbit Car Wash 1
  • 34 Kwick 'n Kleen 1
  • 35 Rose Hill Car Wash 1
  • 36 Chain Lake Express Wash 1
  • 37 Clean Spot Car Wash 1
  • 38 Keeboo Car Wash 1
  • 39 Uncle Ike's Car Wash 1
  • 40 Glacier Car Wash 1
  • 41 Tahoma Car Wash 1
  • 42 Pony Express Car Wash 1
  • 43 ecoSound AUTOSPA 1
  • 44 3rd Ave Eco Wash 1
  • 45 Diamond Car Wash 1
  • 46 Mount Si Car Wash 1
  • 47 Orca Wash 1
  • 48 Twin Star Car Wash 1
  • 49 Clean Planet Car Wash 1
  • 50 Rainbow Car Wash 1

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