How much money could a business in East Forest make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in East Forest 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 East Forest?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in East Forest are Kosher Restaurants, Pet Boarding Facilities, and Italian Restaurants.

What are the best businesses to open in East Forest?

The top businesses to open in East Forest include Kosher Restaurant with a ~81% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~83%, followed by Pet Boarding Facility and Italian Restaurant.

Is East Forest a good place to start a business?

East Forest is ranked number 27 across neighborhoods in and around Charlotte to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~74%. Top-performing business types at the best addresses in East Forest show a ~3% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.

Business Survivability in East Forest, Charlotte

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in East Forest is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~81% 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 East Forest (~81% average survival rate, ~83% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #27 across all neighborhoods in and around Charlotte

Neighborhood average: ~74% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed: April 30, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder

In this article:

Summary
Is East Forest 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 East Forest is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~81% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~83% chance; next is a Pet Boarding Facility with a ~81% chance, followed by an Italian Restaurant with a ~80% chance.

What does the data say about opening in East Forest?

**How East Forest compares:** East Forest's profile most resembles **Marietta (Atlanta)** and **Lyn Rae (Phoenix)** based on the demographic and density signatures we use to model location quality — all three share less transit-reliant, younger population, and few nearby parks. Patterns from those neighborhoods are directly relevant for businesses evaluating East Forest.

**Failure pattern in East Forest.** Across the 89 business subtypes we track here, the strongest is **Bar** at 82% average survivability — but the best and worst sites for this subtype within East Forest span **78% to 88%**, a 10-point gap. **The dominant failure mode in East Forest isn't subtype choice — it's site selection within the neighborhood.** Saturation context: Filipino Restaurants are the most-concentrated tracked subtype in the area, with 4 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

East Forest is the #27 most survivable neighborhood for new businesses in and around Charlotte, with an average score of ~74% across all analyzed categories.

Top-performing business types at the best addresses in East Forest show a ~3% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.
That said, the same business types at the worst-fit addresses in East Forest can drop substantially below average. The survivability gap between the best and worst addresses in a single neighborhood can be 20 points or more.
East Forest's employment rate of 95.7% and commercial vacancy of 6.9% are two of the inputs StreetSpring's model uses to differentiate survivability within this neighborhood.

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

Where in East Forest should you open a business?

StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in East Forest for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. Of all available storefronts analyzed in East Forest, StreetSpring ranks this area highest for a Kosher Restaurant in 2026:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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Per StreetSpring's 2026 dataset, this circle traces the top-performing area for a Kosher Restaurant in East Forest. 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 East Forest?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in East Forest

Opening a Kosher Restaurant in East Forest shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Pet Boarding Facility (Ranked #2): ~81% average in East Forest. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~79%.
Italian Restaurant is ranked #3 for top businesses to open in East Forest: ~80% chance on average, best at ~82%, challenging at ~79%.
Ukrainian Restaurant — ~78%–~82% survivability range, with an average of ~80% across East Forest.
Opening a Singaporean Restaurant in East Forest shows ~80% average survivability. Top locations reach ~82%; lower-end sites show ~78%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in East Forest

Portuguese Restaurant (Ranked #6): ~80% average in East Forest. Best-case storefronts: ~81%. Challenging locations: ~78%.
Dance Club is ranked #7 for top businesses to open in East Forest: ~80% chance on average, best at ~81%, challenging at ~77%.
Watch Store or Repair Shop — ~77%–~82% survivability range, with an average of ~80% across East Forest.
Opening a French Restaurant in East Forest shows ~79% average survivability. Top locations reach ~81%; lower-end sites show ~78%.
Indonesian Restaurant (Ranked #10): ~79% average in East Forest. Best-case storefronts: ~81%. Challenging locations: ~78%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

How location selection in East Forest affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in East Forest 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

Location fit is business-type-specific: a spot that's ideal for a coffee shop may underperform for a nail salon at the same address.
Among all variables that affect business outcomes, location has the highest predictive weight in our models.
Maximizing your Survivability Score is the most reliable path to profitability.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

What East Forest needs more of (per our model)

The top businesses to open next in East Forest:

Kosher Restaurants — ~81% average survival rate, up to ~83% at best locations
Pet Boarding Facilities — ~81% average survival rate
Italian Restaurants — ~80% average survival rate

Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. East Forest's combination of 95.7% employment and 6.9% vacancy creates the conditions that define which business types thrive here and which struggle. Because market conditions shift constantly, StreetSpring updates every location's survivability score weekly — you can see current scores for available storefronts in East Forest right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

What type of business should you rent your East Forest storefront to?

StreetSpring's analysis shows that the categories most likely to produce stable, long-term tenants in East Forest are Kosher Restaurants, Pet Boarding Facilities, and Italian Restaurants.

Among all variables that affect business outcomes, location has the highest predictive weight in our models.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site. 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 East Forest storefront to a Kosher Restaurant?

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis strongly supports renting to a Kosher Restaurant in East Forest: best-in-class addresses achieve ~83% survivability, and even the lower-end sites come in at ~79% — above average for most business types.

StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

What should I consider when opening a business in East Forest?

Location decisions in East Forest should be grounded in Survivability Score data, not intuition. The score directly measures the competitive and spending conditions at your exact address.

Revenue Capture Score is what separates locations that look similar on the surface but produce dramatically different business outcomes.
No third-party scoring system produces these results — every prediction is generated by StreetSpring's own analytical models.
StreetSpring's live survivability scores are available for free — check your specific address now.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring uses AI to predict business survivability across U.S. neighborhoods — trusted by real estate professionals and entrepreneurs nationwide. Aggregated survivability rankings for Charlotte are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Lease structure questions to ask first

Factor	Where new owners get tripped up	Questions to ask before you sign
CAM + hidden costs	Stated rent looks great, then CAM fees, signage charges, and after-hours utilities add 15-30%.	Get the full operating expense breakdown for the past 2 years. Ask which costs are landlord-capped vs. uncapped.
Competitor density	Counting only direct competitors and missing adjacent-category overlap (e.g. coffee shop near a bakery).	Map all businesses serving overlapping customer needs within a 5-min walk. Use StreetSpring's competitor view as a starting point.
Workforce availability	Hiring radius is smaller than you think — many neighborhoods can't staff a full team at standard wages.	Pull BLS wage data for your industry in this metro. Walk through your staffing plan with a local restaurant/retail operator before signing.

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

Bubble chart of business subtypes in Charlotte by survivability score and location density — Every business subtype in Charlotte plotted by score vs location count — bubble size shows market depth.

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.

How we measure this: Supplier proximity matters more for some subtypes (restaurants, repair shops) than others (online-anchored retail).

**Worker-to-resident ratio (East Forest):** LEHD daytime population data gives East Forest a **0.2-to-1 worker/resident ratio** (a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic). Median 1-mile workplace jobs: **4,954**; retail share within that: **1,398**. Worker-heavy neighborhoods skew demand toward weekday-business-hours; resident-heavy neighborhoods skew toward evenings and weekends.

Landmark anchor: Picture Project CLT Selfie Museum sits in East Forest as a museum anchor — adding a cultural-destination layer to neighborhood foot-traffic.

**Local economic context (East Forest, Charlotte):** East Forest's ACS unemployment rate is **4.3%** (below the 24-metro neighborhood median). County-level data adds two more anchors: BLS QCEW reports Charlotte-area average weekly wage of **$1,183** (below our 24-metro median), and the Census Bureau Building Permits Survey logged **7,496** new residential units in Mecklenburg County in 2025 — a rough proxy for the local growth environment a new business is opening into.

**BLS sector context:** Across the 11 industries StreetSpring tracks, 5-year survival rates from BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release range from **47.8%** (Active Life — gyms, studios) to **61.8%** (Health & Medical). Restaurants — the largest single category in our corpus — average **50.0%** nationally, and retail averages **47.9%**.

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