What are the best businesses to open in Dilworth?

The top businesses to open in Dilworth include Bangladeshi Restaurant with a ~85% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~87%, followed by Brunch Restaurant and Chinese Restaurant.

Is Dilworth a good place to start a business?

Dilworth is ranked number 11 across neighborhoods in and around Charlotte to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~77%. StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Dilworth addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~3%.

How much money could a business in Dilworth make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Dilworth could lead to making ~3% more than selecting an average location, and ~5% more than one of the worst locations.

What businesses are most in demand in Dilworth?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Dilworth are Bangladeshi Restaurants, Brunch Restaurants, and Chinese Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Dilworth, Charlotte

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Dilworth is a Bangladeshi Restaurant with a ~85% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Dilworth (~85% average survival rate, ~87% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #11 across all neighborhoods in and around Charlotte

Neighborhood average: ~77% 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 13, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Dilworth 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 Dilworth is a Bangladeshi Restaurant with a ~85% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~87% chance; next is a Brunch Restaurant with a ~85% chance, followed by a Chinese Restaurant with a ~85% chance.

How business-friendly is Dilworth right now?

**Where else does Dilworth look like?** The strongest demographic and amenity-density matches are **Inner Harbor (Baltimore)** and **Swann Estates (Tampa Bay)**, sharing higher employment, shorter commutes, and white-collar job mix. If you've worked in either of those neighborhoods, expect Dilworth to behave similarly on the dimensions that drive survival.

**What goes wrong in Dilworth.** Across 89 subtypes we track, **Brunch Restaurant averages 85%** — the highest in the neighborhood. Yet a site-level look shows Brunch Restaurants range from **74% to 89%** across Dilworth — a 15-point window where the address, not the concept, decides the outcome. For competitive density: Ukrainian Restaurants are the most-concentrated tracked subtype (12 within 0.5 miles).

StreetSpring ranks Dilworth #11 among all analyzed neighborhoods in and around Charlotte, with a neighborhood-wide average survivability of ~77%.

StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Dilworth addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~3%.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Dilworth for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
Dilworth's 11.2% commercial vacancy rate signals the current availability of storefronts and shapes the competitive environment that survivability scores reflect.

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

Where in Dilworth should you open a business?

Rather than relying on neighborhood averages, StreetSpring's scoring tells you which specific addresses in Dilworth give your concept the best odds of survival. StreetSpring's 2026 model ranks this area #1 in Dilworth for a Bangladeshi Restaurant:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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The 2026 StreetSpring model highlights this circle as the top zone for a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Dilworth. Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes 100 factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, mobility patterns, and many more.

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Which business types have the highest survivability in Dilworth?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Dilworth

Bangladeshi Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Dilworth: ~85% chance on average, best at ~87%, challenging at ~84%.
Brunch Restaurant — ~83%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~85% across Dilworth.
Opening a Chinese Restaurant in Dilworth shows ~85% average survivability. Top locations reach ~87%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
Dance Club (Ranked #4): ~85% average in Dilworth. Best-case storefronts: ~86%. Challenging locations: ~82%.
Taiwanese Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Dilworth: ~84% chance on average, best at ~86%, challenging at ~83%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Dilworth

Hungarian Restaurant — ~83%–~86% survivability range, with an average of ~84% across Dilworth.
Opening a Veterinary Clinic in Dilworth shows ~84% average survivability. Top locations reach ~86%; lower-end sites show ~82%.
Bar (Ranked #8): ~84% average in Dilworth. Best-case storefronts: ~86%. Challenging locations: ~82%.
Armenian Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Dilworth: ~84% chance on average, best at ~86%, challenging at ~82%.
Afghan Restaurant — ~83%–~86% survivability range, with an average of ~84% across Dilworth.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Bangladeshi Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →
Brunch Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →
Chinese Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

How location selection in Dilworth affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in Dilworth 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

Different business models thrive in different micro-locations.
Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
Survivability Score is not just a survival metric — it's a revenue predictor, and the higher the score, the stronger the long-term financial outlook.
Two storefronts on the same street can have survivability scores that differ by 20 points or more — StreetSpring calculates each one individually.

Which business types are most underserved in Dilworth?

The top businesses to open next in Dilworth:

Bangladeshi Restaurants — ~85% average survival rate, up to ~87% at best locations
Brunch Restaurants — ~85% average survival rate
Chinese Restaurants — ~85% average survival rate

Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. Our training data spans 130+ business types across 24 major metros, giving our models the breadth to predict outcomes across nearly any commercial concept. Dilworth's employment rate (99.4%) and vacancy rate (11.2%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. The data behind these rankings is updated weekly, so the best available storefront in Dilworth today may score differently than it did last month — check StreetSpring's live tool for the current picture.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

If you own commercial space in Dilworth, StreetSpring's 2026 data points to Bangladeshi Restaurants, Brunch Restaurants, and Chinese Restaurants as the tenant types with the strongest projected longevity at this location.

Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
Two storefronts on the same street can have survivability scores that differ by 20 points or more — StreetSpring calculates each one individually. Run your specific address through StreetSpring to see which tenant categories give you the best odds of stable, long-term occupancy.

Should you rent your Dilworth storefront to a Bangladeshi Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, a Bangladeshi Restaurant leads all business categories for Dilworth landlords — ~87% at the best addresses and ~84% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

Two storefronts on the same street can have survivability scores that differ by 20 points or more — StreetSpring calculates each one individually.

What should I consider when opening a business in Dilworth?

When selecting a location in Dilworth it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.

The most important driver of a high Survivability Score is the Revenue Capture Score for the business at the location it selects.
The underlying models are StreetSpring's own — built, trained, and maintained using data external platforms cannot access.
You can access the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring for free.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

Our analysis covers businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans across 24 major US metros. Aggregated survivability rankings for Charlotte are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Lease structure questions to ask first

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
Foot traffic seasonality	Looking at a peak-summer Tuesday and assuming year-round volume.	Walk the block at 3 different times across 2 different weeks. Ask neighboring tenants for their slow-season % drop.
Permits & licensing	Assuming a 30-day permit timeline, hitting 90+ days, paying rent on a non-operating storefront.	Call the local zoning office before signing. Confirm your use is already permitted; if not, factor a 2-3 month variance timeline.
Permitted hours	Late-night or early-morning ops blocked by zoning, neighborhood association, or shared-wall restrictions.	Confirm the permitted hours-of-operation are in your lease AND in the local code. Pull recent variances or complaints from the zoning portal.

Full dataset for Charlotte: /resources/data/charlotte-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 Charlotte — Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Charlotte — the gap shows how much location choice matters for each subtype.

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

How we measure this: Foot traffic measured at the city-block level using a combination of pedestrian-network analysis and Walk Score.

**Dilworth at a glance.** Dilworth is a neighborhood of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. The neighborhood was Charlotte's first streetcar suburb and was established by Edward Dilworth Latta in the 1890s on 250 acres (1 km²) southwest of the original city limits. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilworth_(Charlotte_neighborhood)))

**LEHD demand-pattern signal (Dilworth):** Median 1-mile workplace jobs across Dilworth: **51,029** (LEHD LODES 2022). That works out to a **10.4:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** — a strong commercial-corridor / CBD signal. Of those workplace jobs, **1,970** are retail-sector. Use this to gauge whether your concept is weekday-commuter-driven or evening-and-weekend-driven.

Landmark anchor: Dilworth's park anchor is Latta Park Splash Pad, which sets weekend and warm-weather foot-traffic patterns for the surrounding blocks.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Dilworth:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **0.6%** (below the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Charlotte metro's average weekly wage at **$1,183** (below our 24-metro median). And Mecklenburg County permitted **7,496** new residential units in 2025 per Census BPS — a population-and-demand growth signal.

**Why these baselines matter:** BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025) reports 5-year survival rates of **47.8-61.8%** across the industries StreetSpring covers. Restaurants survive at **50.0%** nationally — not 20%. The location decision is what separates the 30% above the baseline from the 30% below.

Related Resources

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Beyond the Numbers: Local Context

Local-context questions, answered with neighborhood-specific numbers.

What's the national survival baseline for businesses by sector?

BLS Business Employment Dynamics data (March 2025 release) shows 5-year survival rates spanning 47.8% (Active Life) to 61.8% (Health & Medical) across the 11 sectors StreetSpring tracks. Restaurants — the most studied category — survive at 50% nationally, well above the often-cited "80% fail" myth.

Is Dilworth more a residential or work-destination neighborhood?

Dilworth's median commute (~19 min) is below the Charlotte metro median (26 min). A shorter commute usually means residents work close to home — that boosts mid-day weekday demand for cafes, lunch spots, and convenience services.

Does Dilworth's income profile support new business openings?

Median household income in Dilworth is approximately $168K, versus the Charlotte metro median of $97K — above the metro by $71K. Higher median income supports premium retail, upscale dining, and discretionary services.