Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in the United States

Iceflower tracks 14,910 stores from 7,225 car wash chains in the United States. Sam's Xpress Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jax Kar Wash and Ocean Blue 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
7,225
Tracked stores
14,910
Consumer panel
130M+

State by state

The leading car wash chains in every state

Tracked car wash chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Mister Car Wash leads in 10 states, Delta Sonic Car Wash in 2 states, and Club Car Wash in 2 states. 37 chains lead at least one state. Against their share in the US as a whole, Mister Car Wash stands out in 7 states, Club Car Wash in 3 states, and Golden Nozzle Car Wash in 3 states.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: District of Columbia

No ranked chain with 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming

Not enough tracked stores: District of Columbia

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked car wash chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. 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. Sam's Xpress Car Wash and Jax Kar Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sam's Xpress Car Wash ▲4 +19.8%
2 Jax Kar Wash ▲4 +19.3%
3 Ocean Blue Car Wash ▲17 +19.2%
4 Flying Ace Express Car Wash ▲4 +18.9%
5 Cobblestone Auto Spa ▲3 +18.2%
6 Wash Factory Express ▲21 +18.1%
7 Shur-Kleen Car Wash ▲17 +18.1%
8 Aqua Clean Car Wash ▲20 +18.0%
9 The Wash Tub ▲5 +17.7%
10 PureMagic Carwash ▲16 +16.1%
11 Ronny's Car Wash ▲20 +15.8%
12 Moo Moo Express Car Wash ▲3 +15.4%
13 Autopia Car Wash ▲17 +14.5%
14 Hoffman Car Wash ▲3 +13.9%
15 Papa Bear Car Wash ▲20 +13.8%
  • Mister Car Wash
  • H-E-B Car Wash
  • Delta Sonic Car Wash
  • Crew Carwash
  • Hoffman Car Wash
  • Mike's Carwash
  • Sam's Xpress Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

14,910 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,312 of the 14,910 stores (9%); 5,932 of the 7,225 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Mister Car Wash (536)
  • H-E-B Car Wash (93)
  • Delta Sonic Car Wash (35)
  • Crew Carwash (52)
  • Hoffman Car Wash (32)
  • Mike's Carwash (51)
  • Sam's Xpress Car Wash (51)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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