Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in Texas

Iceflower tracks 1,650 stores from 815 car wash chains in Texas. Ocean Blue Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Wash Masters and Grime Scene 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
815
Tracked stores
1,650
Consumer panel
130M+

Metro by metro

The leading car wash chains in every Texas metro area

Tracked car wash chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. H-E-B Car Wash leads in 11 metro areas, Mister Car Wash in 2 metro areas, and Take 5 Car Wash in 1 metro area. 7 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in Texas as a whole, Mister Car Wash stands out in 4 metro areas, GO Car Wash in 4 metro areas, and BlueWave Express Car Wash in 2 metro areas.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: Amarillo, TX · Eagle Pass, TX · Odessa, TX · San Angelo, TX · Sherman-Denison, TX · Texarkana, TX-AR (TX part) · Victoria, TX · Wichita Falls, TX

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Longview, TX · Midland, TX · Tyler, TX

Not enough tracked stores: Amarillo, TX · Eagle Pass, TX · Odessa, TX · San Angelo, TX · Sherman-Denison, TX · Texarkana, TX-AR (TX part) · Victoria, TX · Wichita Falls, TX

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked car wash chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Texas compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Texas as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Texas 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 Texas is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Texas. 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. Ocean Blue Car Wash and Wash Masters sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ocean Blue Car Wash ▲7 +17.8%
2 Wash Masters ▲2 +15.1%
3 Grime Scene Car Wash ▲3 +14.6%
4 Mi-T-Fine Car Wash ▲3 +13.9%
5 Snap Clean Car Wash ▲5 +13.6%
6 Tjs Carwash ▲4 +12.8%
7 The Wash Tub ▲2 +12.0%
8 H-E-B Car Wash - +8.6%
9 Rich's Car Wash ▲5 +6.7%
10 Sparkling Image Car Wash ▲2 +4.5%
11 Clean Freak Car Wash ▲1 +3.6%
12 Tommy's Express Car Wash ▲3 +2.7%
13 Rapid Express Car Wash ▲3 +2.4%
14 Splash Car Wash - +2.3%
15 WhiteWater Express Car Wash - +1.7%
  • H-E-B Car Wash
  • Mister Car Wash
  • Take 5 Car Wash
  • The Wash Tub
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash
  • GO Car Wash
  • BlueWave Express Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,650 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 314 of the 1,650 stores (19%); 669 of the 815 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 6% across the United States.

  • H-E-B Car Wash (93)
  • Mister Car Wash (80)
  • Take 5 Car Wash (25)
  • The Wash Tub (28)
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash (51)
  • GO Car Wash (51)
  • BlueWave Express Car Wash (39)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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