Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 157 stores from 115 car wash chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Sam's Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of White Horse Auto Wash and Flagship Carwash.

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
115
Tracked stores
157
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. Sam's Car Wash and White Horse Auto Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sam's Car Wash - +8.2%
2 White Horse Auto Wash - +3.6%
3 Flagship Carwash - -2.8%
4 Mr Wash Car Wash - -20.8%
  • Flagship Carwash
  • White Horse Auto Wash
  • GO Car Wash
  • Edge Express Car Wash
  • Pro Wash
  • Flower Hill Liberty Auto Center
  • Edge Car Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

157 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 39 of the 157 stores (25%); 102 of the 115 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 2% across District of Columbia.

  • Flagship Carwash (24)
  • White Horse Auto Wash (5)
  • GO Car Wash (1)
  • Edge Express Car Wash (1)
  • Pro Wash (2)
  • Flower Hill Liberty Auto Center (1)
  • Edge Car Wash (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Flagship Carwash 24
  • 2 White Horse Auto Wash 5
  • 3 Splash In 4
  • 4 Mr Wash Car Wash 3
  • 5 Sam's Car Wash 3
  • 6 Tidal Wave Auto Spa 2
  • 7 College Park Car Wash 2
  • 8 Speedy Clean 2
  • 9 Station Auto Wash Express 2
  • 10 Sonic Soft Car Wash 2
  • 11 Dr. Wash Car Wash 2
  • 12 Mr. Wash 2
  • 13 Pro Wash 2
  • 14 KP Touch Auto Detail 1
  • 15 Dale's Car Wash 1
  • 16 Warrenton Auto Wash 1
  • 17 Aerospace Autowash 1
  • 18 Billy's Auto Laundry 1
  • 19 Quality Car Wash 1
  • 20 Pristine Auto Spa 1
  • 21 New Look Auto Detailing 1
  • 22 Roys Malcolm Road Car Wash 1
  • 23 5 Star Wash 1
  • 24 Forest 24 Hour Car Wash 1
  • 25 The Car Wash 1
  • 26 Quick Car Wash 1
  • 27 Auto Spa 1
  • 28 Ecma 1
  • 29 Keystone AutoSpa 1
  • 30 EZ Car Wash 1
  • 31 Express Car Wash 1
  • 32 Courthouse Car Wash 1
  • 33 Montgomery Hills Car Wash 1
  • 34 Inside Out Express Car Wash 1
  • 35 Dumfries car wash 1
  • 36 Jack's Car Wash 1
  • 37 Culpeper Car Wash 1
  • 38 Queens Car Wash 1
  • 39 Express Wash 1
  • 40 Mobile One Detailing 1
  • 41 Edge Express Carwash 1
  • 42 Kangaroo Car Wash 1
  • 43 The Auto Spa Express 1
  • 44 ProWash Protint 1
  • 45 Rosemont Car Wash 1
  • 46 Fountaindale Car Wash 1
  • 47 Kennsington Auto Clean 1
  • 48 Montgomery Village Car Wash 1
  • 49 On Point Detailing And Tint 1
  • 50 Falcon Wash 1

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