Trends · data through August 2026

Car Washes in the United States

Iceflower tracks 8,354 stores from 3,792 car washes chains in the United States. WhiteWater Express Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Radiant Express Car Wash and Foamworks Auto Spa.

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
3,792
Tracked stores
8,354
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car washes 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. WhiteWater Express Car Wash and Radiant Express Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W WhiteWater Express Car Wash logo WhiteWater Express Car Wash ▲4 +19.7%
2 R Radiant Express Car Wash logo Radiant Express Car Wash ▲21 +19.4%
3 F Foamworks Auto Spa logo Foamworks Auto Spa ▲13 +19.1%
4 P Papa Bear Car Wash ▲16 +18.7%
5 S Shiny Shell Car Wash logo Shiny Shell Car Wash ▲9 +17.9%
6 R Rich's Car Wash logo Rich's Car Wash ▲3 +17.3%
7 W WOW Carwash logo WOW Carwash ▲16 +16.9%
8 S Shammy Shine Car Wash logo Shammy Shine Car Wash ▲7 +16.4%
9 C Clean Express Auto Wash logo Clean Express Auto Wash ▲4 +16.3%
10 C Caliber Car Wash logo Caliber Car Wash ▲6 +16.2%
11 S Super Wash car wash logo Super Wash car wash ▲5 +14.9%
12 A American Pride Car Wash logo American Pride Car Wash ▲13 +14.2%
13 B Big Dan's Car Wash logo Big Dan's Car Wash ▲2 +12.2%
14 B Big Peach Car Wash ▲17 +11.9%
15 C Cheetah Clean Auto Wash logo Cheetah Clean Auto Wash ▲11 +10.5%
  • Mister Car Wash
  • Delta Sonic Car Wash
  • H-E-B Car Wash
  • Crew Carwash
  • Mike's Carwash
  • Tidal Wave Auto Spa
  • Hoffman Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

8,354 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mister Car Wash (445)
  • Delta Sonic Car Wash (32)
  • H-E-B Car Wash (80)
  • Crew Carwash (49)
  • Mike's Carwash (45)
  • Tidal Wave Auto Spa (200)
  • Hoffman Car Wash (22)
  • Other tracked chains

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