How can you find the best location to open a business in Belmont?

StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes 100 factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, and mobility patterns to pinpoint which blocks in Belmont maximize success.

Is Belmont a good place to start a business?

Belmont is ranked number 85 across neighborhoods in and around Boston to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~72%. The top business types in Belmont, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~3% above the neighborhood-wide average.

What businesses are most in demand in Belmont?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Belmont are Kosher Restaurants, Indian Restaurants, and French Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Belmont, Boston

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Belmont is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~79% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•18 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Kosher Restaurant in Belmont (~79% average survival rate, ~81% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #85 across all neighborhoods in and around Boston

Neighborhood average: ~72% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring — May 14, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Belmont a good place to start a business?
How to find the best location
Best businesses to open
How much money could a business make?
What businesses should open next?
Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Belmont is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~79% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~81% chance; next is an Indian Restaurant with a ~79% chance, followed by a French Restaurant with a ~78% chance.

What does the data say about opening in Belmont?

**Pattern match:** Belmont's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Winchester (Boston)** and **Highland Park Overlee Knolls (Washington DC)**. The three share higher-income, high high-earner share, and more college-educated, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Belmont.

**The pattern in Belmont.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Kosher Restaurant leads at **79% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **67-90%** (23-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Belmont and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile American Restaurants are already saturated here — 6 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Across all neighborhoods in and around Boston, StreetSpring's data places Belmont at #85 with a ~72% average Survivability Score.

The top business types in Belmont, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~3% above the neighborhood-wide average.
However, these same business types at the worst locations in Belmont can sometimes provide a projected Survivability Score considerably below the average. Thus, even the businesses that are most in need in Belmont could have trouble succeeding if the best location is not selected.
With 96.0% of the local population employed, Belmont presents a stable consumer base — particularly for food, beverage, and service businesses that depend on repeat discretionary spending.

Employment and vacancy figures sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.

Where in Belmont should you open a business?

StreetSpring's address-level analysis reveals which specific storefronts in Belmont offer the strongest survivability odds for your business type. Here is the top survivability address for a Kosher Restaurant in Belmont, per StreetSpring's 2026 model:

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This map shows the optimal location for a Kosher Restaurant in Belmont based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis. StreetSpring's survivability scores are updated regularly, so the most accurate prediction for your exact storefront is always available in the live tool. The prediction model incorporates 100 location-specific factors, including competitive density, forecasted consumer spending, mobility patterns, and Revenue Capture Score.

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What are the best businesses to open in Belmont?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Belmont

Kosher Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Belmont: ~79% chance on average, best at ~81%, challenging at ~77%.
Indian Restaurant — ~76%–~81% survivability range, with an average of ~79% across Belmont.
Opening a French Restaurant in Belmont shows ~78% average survivability. Top locations reach ~80%; lower-end sites show ~77%.
Japanese / Sushi Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~78% average in Belmont. Best-case storefronts: ~80%. Challenging locations: ~76%.
German Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Belmont: ~78% chance on average, best at ~80%, challenging at ~76%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Belmont

Ethiopian Restaurant — ~77%–~80% survivability range, with an average of ~78% across Belmont.
Opening a Hot Pot Restaurant in Belmont shows ~78% average survivability. Top locations reach ~80%; lower-end sites show ~76%.
Armenian Restaurant (Ranked #8): ~78% average in Belmont. Best-case storefronts: ~80%. Challenging locations: ~76%.
Southern Food Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Belmont: ~78% chance on average, best at ~79%, challenging at ~77%.
Pet Store — ~76%–~80% survivability range, with an average of ~78% across Belmont.

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How much money could a business in Belmont make?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting a storefront that StreetSpring ranks in the top tier for your business type in Belmont could lead to you making ~3% more than if you selected an average location, and ~5% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

However, each business concept should be evaluated for fit within each potential location.
Location is the single strongest predictor of whether a business thrives or fails.
StreetSpring's analysis shows that businesses in top-scoring locations generate meaningfully more revenue and stay open longer than those in average locations.
StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.

Which business types are most underserved in Belmont?

The top businesses to open next in Belmont:

Kosher Restaurants — ~79% average survival rate, up to ~81% at best locations
Indian Restaurants — ~79% average survival rate
French Restaurants — ~78% average survival rate

StreetSpring's survivability scores are updated regularly, so the most accurate prediction for your exact storefront is always available in the live tool. StreetSpring's training dataset includes millions of transactions and business lifecycle events. Belmont sits at 96.0% employment and 4.6% commercial vacancy — conditions that set the ceiling and floor for Revenue Capture potential across all business types here. StreetSpring updates survivability scores for available locations weekly — check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Belmont are currently available and how they score.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Belmont.

What type of business should you rent your Belmont storefront to?

Our 2026 survivability data for Belmont shows that Kosher Restaurants, Indian Restaurants, and French Restaurants rank as the top tenant categories for minimizing vacancy risk.

Location is the single strongest predictor of whether a business thrives or fails.
StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category. Landlords can use StreetSpring to match their exact address to the tenant types most likely to stay open and paying rent for 2+ years.

Should you rent your Belmont storefront to a Kosher Restaurant?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, a Kosher Restaurant ranks as the top tenant type for your Belmont storefront — best-case locations show a ~81% survival rate, while the most challenging addresses drop to ~77%.

StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.

What should I consider when opening a business in Belmont?

Survivability Score is the North Star metric for any location decision in Belmont: it aggregates 100+ factors so you don't have to evaluate each one individually.

The Revenue Capture Score at a specific address explains more about likely business success than any other available metric.
Every survivability score is produced by StreetSpring's private prediction engine — not available through any other platform.
StreetSpring's live scoring tool is free: enter any address in Belmont to see its current Survivability Score for your business type.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring's models are built from millions of real business outcomes, making predictions grounded in what actually happened. Aggregated survivability rankings for Boston are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Permits, licensing, and zoning specifics worth flagging

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
Lease term	Locking into 7-10 years without break clauses, then needing to relocate after year 2.	Negotiate a relocation or termination clause. Confirm assignment + sublease rights are in writing.
Outdoor seating / sidewalk use	Signing assuming you can add patio seating, then learning the city requires a separate sidewalk-cafe permit with long lead times.	Check the city's sidewalk-cafe permit process up front. Confirm landlord allows outdoor build-out in the lease language.
Anchor co-tenancy	Signing next to a high-traffic anchor that closes 6 months later, leaving you orphaned.	Ask for a co-tenancy clause — rent abatement or termination right if the anchor leaves. Standard for strong markets.

Full dataset for Boston: /resources/data/boston-survivability-scores-2026.csv — includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Visual Data

Dumbbell chart comparing best vs worst locations for businesses in Boston — Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Boston — the gap shows how much location choice matters for each subtype.

Treemap of Boston business mix by survivability score — Treemap of business mix in Boston — cell size = number of locations, color = average survivability score.

How we measure this: Most retail competition operates within a 500-meter radius — outside that, behavioral economics show customers don't routinely switch.

**National benchmark:** Per BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025), 5-year survival rates for StreetSpring's tracked industries span **47.8-61.8%**. Restaurants — the most-studied of these — survive at **50.0%** nationally, not the often-cited "80% fail" myth. The real risk premium is at the location level, which is what StreetSpring's model isolates.

**A bit of history.** Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a western suburb of Boston and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont%2C_Massachusetts))

**Daytime worker density (Belmont):** LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics show a **0.3:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** for Belmont — a primarily-residential signal with some daytime worker pull. Median workplace jobs within a 1-mile radius of grid points in Belmont: **6,164**, of which roughly **442** are retail-sector. Higher daytime ratios favor weekday-lunch / commuter-traffic businesses; balanced ratios favor residential + weekend demand patterns.

Landmark anchor: Belmont's museum-anchor is Metropolitan Museum Of Art, the kind of landmark that pulls visitors into the surrounding commercial blocks.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Belmont:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **4.0%** (below the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Boston metro's average weekly wage at **$1,631** (above our 24-metro median). And Suffolk County permitted **2,338** new residential units in 2025 per Census BPS — a population-and-demand growth signal.

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Neighborhood-Specific Questions

Further questions, with answers anchored on this neighborhood's actual data.

How does Belmont's employment rate affect business survivability?

Roughly 96% of Belmont's working-age population is employed, against a Boston metro median of 96%. Employment is close to the metro median, suggesting stable underlying demand.

Does Belmont's education level matter for picking a business type?

Approximately 78% of Belmont adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 58% across the Boston metro. A highly educated population tends to support specialty retail, premium services, and professional offices.

What's the home ownership rate in Belmont, and why does it matter?

74% of Belmont households own their home, against 56% across the Boston metro. High ownership usually signals longer resident tenure and steadier local spending — favorable for sticky service-oriented businesses.

What does household composition look like in Belmont?

ACS data puts average household size in Belmont at 2.7, compared to 2.3 across Boston. Household composition is close to the metro average.

Is Belmont's population younger or older than the Boston average?

Belmont's median age is 45 versus a Boston metro median of 41 — older by 4 years. This shapes which business types tend to survive: An older profile tends to favor healthcare, professional services, and family-oriented retail over nightlife.