Laundromat Prices: What a Washer, a Dryer and a Load Cost

These laundromat prices come from our listings data: each store’s own website, checked October 2026. Of our 4,038 Florida and Texas listings, 136 publish a per-load washer price, so it isn’t a national survey or any one store’s price. Where a store publishes its prices, they’re on its card. How we check listings explains the fields.

Laundromat prices at a glance

Each listing counts its own lowest and highest washer price; the highest comes from the 119 listings that list two or more. For dryers, where a store lists several sizes or a range, we count the most minutes it gives per quarter. *Our arithmetic; the next section shows the inputs.

What a laundromat load costs, washed and dried

These figures are our arithmetic from the medians above, not any store’s quote. Thirty minutes of drying is our assumption; as Laundry Hero in Clearwater says, “Drying time varies by load and fabric.”

• One load: $3.25 to wash plus $1.34 for 30 minutes of drying (the median of stores’ cheapest rates, so it leans low; see dryers below) is $4.59, or about $4.60. With 60 minutes of drying, it’s $5.94.
• A week of laundry: three loads come to $13.78, about $14 a week or about $60 a month. Two loads a week are $9.19.
• A comforter in a store’s top-priced washer: the median highest washer price ($9.25, across 119 listings) plus 30 minutes of drying is $10.59; with 60 minutes, $11.94. What fits where is under machine sizes below.

Where a store posts its prices, they’re on its card on our city pages.

How laundromat dryers are priced

Most stores sell drying by time. Of the 132 listings that publish a dryer price, the formats are:

• A quarter buys a set number of minutes ("$0.25 per 6 minutes"): 63 listings. Median 6 minutes per quarter; middle half 5 to 8.
• A dollar price for a stated time ("$1.50 per 30 minutes", “$0.65 per 11 minutes”): 31. Only 10 of these post a 30-minute price.
• A price per cycle or load, with no minutes given: 19. Their lowest cycle prices have a median of $1.75, from only 19 listings.

The rest give only a starting price (6), a bare price with no unit (10), or free drying (3, one only after a wash).

To compare formats, we prorated each store’s cheapest stated rate to 30 minutes (our arithmetic). Across the 94 listings that give a time, the median is $1.34, with a middle half of $1.07 to $1.77. Because it uses each store’s cheapest option, this figure leans low.

CLA, formerly the Coin Laundry Association, asked owners in its 2024 survey (377 responses) about their most typical store. On average, they said a quarter buys 6.2 minutes in a 30 lb dryer, or 6.1 in CLA’s South region, which includes Florida and Texas. Of the owners, 23% offer a fixed price to dry one load, and the median of that price is $2.00. Those are owners’ answers, not posted prices like ours, so they measure something different.

Machine sizes: what costs more and what fits

Laundromats price washers by size, named in pounds or in loads. Happy Laundry Hub in Dallas runs from a “20lb/2 Load Washer” at $3.00 to an “80lb/8 Load Washer” at $10.25, and Wash & Go in Jacksonville calls its smallest machine “20 lb (double load).” Those are single stores’ lists, not averages. CLA’s owners reported an average price per turn of $3.57 for an 18–24 lb front-load washer, $6.32 for 40–49 lb and $8.16 for 50–60 lb at their most typical store ($3.33, $5.78 and $7.65 in the South). Our medians are posted prices, and our data doesn’t record machine size.

Dryers can work the same way. At Tornado Express Laundry, a Dallas-area chain, a quarter at its Dallas store buys 8 minutes in a 35 lb dryer and 6 minutes in a 50 lb one.

For one maker, Dexter, the pound figure is a dry-weight rating: its spec sheet for the T-350 Express washer gives a dry weight capacity of 20 lb. The owner’s manual for the same 20 lb model says, “Maximum load is 18 pounds clothes, dry weight.”

Laundry Hero says its 60 lb washer “swallows king-size comforters, duvets, rugs and family-size loads in a single cycle.” Quik Wash in Austin says its larger washers “can accommodate many comforters, blankets and other bulky washable items.”

Paying: quarters, cards and apps

In our data, 387 listings say on their own website that they take cards, and 284 say you can pay by app. Stores that don’t say so may still take cards. In CLA’s survey, 71% of owners’ most typical stores took quarters, 42% laundry cards, 42% credit or debit cards, 25% Apple Pay or Google Pay and 25% a store app, among other options; 21% took quarters only.

• No cards: Missouri City Washateria in Missouri City, Texas, lists “Coins, Cash accepted; No Credit / Debit Cards accepted.” At a store like that, bring quarters; a plastic quarter holder tube ad keeps them together.
• Card or coin: Laundry Hero has card readers on every machine and a change machine for coins.
• Laundry card: Wash & Go machines take a free laundry card that you load with cash, debit, credit, Google Pay, Apple Pay or EBT.
• Card bonus: Tornado Express adds a 10% bonus when you register its loyalty card and add $10 or more.

To skip the coins, see the card-payment pages for Houston, Dallas, Miami and Jacksonville.

Detergent: buy it there or bring your own

Many laundromats sell detergent. In CLA’s survey, 87% of owners’ stores have soap vending. Laundry Hero says “detergent and laundry supplies are available if you forget yours,” and Tornado Express and Quik Wash sell detergent too. Our data has no detergent prices. For what kind and how much to use, see how to use a laundromat.

If you bring pods, Poison Control says: “Keep laundry detergent pods (and other cleaning products) out of sight and reach of children.”

Is wash and fold cheaper than doing it yourself?

At these medians, doing it yourself costs less. In our arithmetic, a 20 lb bag at the drop-off median of $1.50 a pound from our wash and fold guide costs $30. Doing it yourself, washed and dried at the medians above, costs $9.19 as two loads in the cheapest washers, assuming each holds up to 18 lb. Some stores name their smallest washer 20 lb, such as Happy Laundry Hub and Wash & Go, and Dexter’s manual for its 20 lb model says, “Maximum load is 18 pounds clothes, dry weight.” The other option is one load in a bigger machine, at that store’s price.

What wash and fold saves you is the washing, drying and folding. At several stores, comforters are priced by the piece rather than by the pound; the wash and fold guide covers those.

Find a laundromat near you

We list Florida and Texas so far. Each city page shows the lowest washer price stores there publish, and each card shows a store’s prices where it publishes them, plus payment and hours, with the date we checked.

• Big cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville
• Open 24 hours: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville

Or browse every city in Florida or Texas. If a price on a card is out of date, send a correction.