Trends · data through June 2026

Car Washes in the United States

Iceflower tracks 8,099 stores from 3,710 car washes chains in the United States. WhiteWater Express Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Papa Bear Car Wash and Shiny Shell 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
3,710
Tracked stores
8,099
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 Papa Bear 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 +19.2%
2 P Papa Bear Car Wash ▲16 +18.5%
3 S Shiny Shell Car Wash logo Shiny Shell Car Wash ▲12 +18.5%
4 S Speedwash Car Wash logo Speedwash Car Wash ▲9 +17.2%
5 R Rich's Car Wash logo Rich's Car Wash ▲2 +17.0%
6 C Caliber Car Wash logo Caliber Car Wash ▲7 +16.7%
7 C Clean Express Auto Wash logo Clean Express Auto Wash ▲4 +16.5%
8 S Shammy Shine Car Wash logo Shammy Shine Car Wash ▲8 +16.5%
9 H H-E-B Car Wash logo H-E-B Car Wash +15.4%
10 A American Pride Car Wash logo American Pride Car Wash ▲12 +14.9%
11 S Super Wash car wash logo Super Wash car wash ▲7 +14.5%
12 R Raceway Car Wash logo Raceway Car Wash ▲12 +13.1%
13 B Big Dan's Car Wash logo Big Dan's Car Wash ▲1 +12.6%
14 B Big Peach Car Wash ▲18 +12.5%
15 W WOW Carwash logo WOW Carwash ▲16 +12.0%
  • Mister Car Wash
  • H-E-B Car Wash
  • Crew Carwash
  • Mike's Carwash
  • Tidal Wave Auto Spa
  • Hoffman Car Wash
  • Take 5 Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

8,099 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mister Car Wash (436)
  • H-E-B Car Wash (80)
  • Crew Carwash (47)
  • Mike's Carwash (45)
  • Tidal Wave Auto Spa (200)
  • Hoffman Car Wash (22)
  • Take 5 Car Wash (112)
  • Other tracked chains

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