San Antonio Business Survivability Scores by Neighborhood 2026

Questions this dataset answers

This file covers 55 places in the San Antonio area and ranks none of them yet: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking, so the rank and tier columns are blank. Every row still carries its scores; read them directly with the recipes below.

How to read this dataset

The file has 61 columns and 8,030 rows. Lines that begin with # are comments (citation, license, these recipes) and should be skipped when parsing. The same dictionary is in the README beside the files; changes between versions are in the changelog.

Column dictionary

city

Metro slug (for example philadelphia).

neighborhood

Neighborhood slug inside the metro; the row's place.

business_subtype

Business type slug (for example italian-restaurant); the row's business. The file's own count is in the README and on its page.

business_type_lookup

Display name of the business type (for example Italian Restaurant).

avg_survivability_score

The projected chance, 0 to 100, that this business type lasts two or more years at a typical address in this neighborhood. The rankings use p90_survivability_score, the good-address score.

max_survivability_score

Best address in the neighborhood for this business type, 0 to 100.

min_survivability_score

Weakest address in the neighborhood for this business type, 0 to 100.

UPPER_BOUND_MAX_SURVIVABILITY

Upper confidence bound on max_survivability_score, 0 to 100.

LOWER_BOUND_MAX_SURVIVABILITY

Lower confidence bound on max_survivability_score, 0 to 100.

UPPER_BOUND_MIN_SURVIVABILITY

Upper confidence bound on min_survivability_score, 0 to 100.

LOWER_BOUND_MIN_SURVIVABILITY

Lower confidence bound on min_survivability_score, 0 to 100.

neighborhood_rank_for_business_subtype

Rank of this place among the ranked places of the same place_kind in the metro for this business type, on p90_survivability_score (1 = best). Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

tier_of_neighborhood_for_business_subtype

Great, Good, Average, Below-average or Poor, from that rank's position in its list: the top 10 percent is Great, the next 20 percent Good, the middle 40 percent Average, the next 20 percent Below-average and the bottom 10 percent Poor. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

business_subtype_rank_for_neighborhood

Rank of this business type among the ranked types in this place, on p90_survivability_score (1 = the type most likely to last at a good address here). Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

tier_of_business_subtype_for_neighborhood

Great, Good, Average, Below-average or Poor, from that rank, with the same cut-offs as the neighborhood tier. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

total_ranked_neighborhoods_for_business_subtype

How many places of this place_kind are ranked for this business type in the metro: the length of the list the rank sits in. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

year

Data year (2026).

source_url_neighborhood_rank

Page on streetspring.com that ranks neighborhoods for this business type.

source_url_business_subtype_rank

Page on streetspring.com that ranks business types for this neighborhood.

methodology_url

How the score is built: https://streetspring.com/resources/tutorial/aeo-methodology

source_article_url

The neighborhood's own rankings page on streetspring.com.

min_2yr_failure_rate

100 minus max_survivability_score: the lowest projected two-year failure rate in the neighborhood, 0 to 100.

max_2yr_failure_rate

100 minus min_survivability_score: the highest projected two-year failure rate in the neighborhood, 0 to 100.

employment_rate

Share of the labor force employed, as a fraction of 1 (0.95 means 95 percent). Census ACS.

vacancy_rate

Share of housing units vacant, as a fraction of 1. Census ACS.

competitor_count

Number of businesses of that exact type located INSIDE the neighborhood boundary, counted as distinct places. An empty cell means not measured, which is not the same as none: either the neighborhood has no boundary in our polygon set or that business type was never collected in that metro. A 0 means we measured and found none.

income_rank

Not populated in this release (empty in every row). Use income_metro_percentile.

income_score

Median household income in dollars. Census ACS; 250,001 is the Census top code.

pct_high_income

Share of households earning 150,000 dollars or more, as a fraction of 1. Census ACS.

income_tier

Affluent, Upper-Middle, Middle, Working or Low-Income, from income_metro_percentile.

income_metro_percentile

Where the neighborhood's median income sits among the metro's neighborhoods, 0 to 100 (100 = highest).

income_national_percentile

Where the neighborhood's median income sits among all U.S. neighborhoods in our data, 0 to 100.

poverty_rate

Share of residents below the poverty line, as a fraction of 1. Census ACS.

median_age

Median resident age, years. Census ACS.

pct_bachelor_plus

Share of adults 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher, as a fraction of 1. Census ACS.

avg_household_size

Average household size, persons. Census ACS.

median_commute_minutes

Median commute, minutes. Census ACS.

pct_housing_post_2000

Share of housing units built in 2000 or later, as a fraction of 1. Census ACS.

data_source

Provenance label for the row.

p90_survivability_score

The chance, 0 to 100, that this business type lasts two or more years at a good address in the place: the 90th percentile of the scored locations inside it. The rank columns are ordered on this.

neighborhood_name

Display name of the place.

scored_locations_in_neighborhood

How many scored locations the place's scores are built from. A place needs at least 10 to be ranked.

place_kind

neighborhood (a city neighbourhood) or town (a whole municipality). Rankings never mix the two.

rank_withheld_reason

Empty for almost every row. When it is filled, this place keeps its scores and is deliberately left out of every ranking, and this column says why. Its rank and tier columns are empty and it is excluded from the national pool, so a list that omits it is complete, not short.

neighborhood_overall_score

Mean p90_survivability_score across the place's ranked business types, 0 to 100; the basis of the overall rank. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

neighborhood_overall_avg_score

Mean avg_survivability_score across the same rows. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

neighborhood_overall_max_score

Mean max_survivability_score across the same rows. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

neighborhood_overall_min_score

Mean min_survivability_score across the same rows. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

business_types_ranked_in_neighborhood

How many business types are ranked in the place. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

neighborhood_overall_rank

The place's rank among places of the same kind on neighborhood_overall_score (1 = best), repeated on every row of the place. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

total_ranked_neighborhoods_overall

How many places of that kind carry an overall rank in the metro. Empty in every row of this file: its neighborhood ranking is withheld because most San Antonio neighborhood names in our boundary data have no matching boundary in the city, and too few of its towns have enough scored locations for a town ranking.

publisher

Who publishes the dataset: StreetSpring. The same value in every row.

publisher_url

The publisher's site, https://streetspring.com. The same value in every row.

dataset_name

StreetSpring Survivability Datasets 2026. The same value in every row, so one row read on its own names its source.

dataset_doi

10.5281/zenodo.22287996, the concept DOI, which always resolves to the newest version. Pin a version with dataset_version.

license

CC-BY-4.0: free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to StreetSpring.

license_url

The license text, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

dataset_version

The release this row belongs to, the same value in every row and equal to the Version line of this header. Cite it to pin the numbers.

as_of_date

The date this release's scores were published, as YYYY-MM-DD. The same value in every row.

source_url_business_type

absolute and verified against the live site on 2026-10-02; filled on 58.2% of rows. Empty means the page was not proven to exist, never a guess.

source_url

empty in every row. held for this release: it resolves for only about a third of rows until the place pages are built. An empty column is honest; a third-filled one is not.