What businesses are most in demand in Brighton Park?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Brighton Park are Italian Restaurants, Taiwanese Restaurants, and Kosher Restaurants.

What are the best businesses to open in Brighton Park?

The top businesses to open in Brighton Park include Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~91%, followed by Taiwanese Restaurant and Kosher Restaurant.

How much money could a business in Brighton Park make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Brighton Park could lead to making ~2% more than selecting an average location, and ~3% more than one of the worst locations.

Is Brighton Park a good place to start a business?

Brighton Park is ranked number 33 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~82%. The most promising business types in the best locations score a ~2% higher chance of surviving 2 years than the average.

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

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 Brighton Park maximize success.

Business Survivability in Brighton Park, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Brighton Park is an Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: an Italian Restaurant in Brighton Park (~90% average survival rate, ~91% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #33 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~82% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed: May 1, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder

In this article:

Summary
Is Brighton Park 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 Brighton Park is an Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~91% chance; next is a Taiwanese Restaurant with a ~90% chance, followed by a Kosher Restaurant with a ~90% chance.

Is Brighton Park the right neighborhood for a new business?

**Pattern match:** Brighton Park's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Beverly Woods (Chicago)** and **De Soto (St. Louis)**. The three share blue-collar job mix, low destination density, and less college-educated, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Brighton Park.

**The pattern in Brighton Park.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Taiwanese Restaurant leads at **90% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **68-97%** (29-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Brighton Park and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Gyms are already saturated here — 1 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago, StreetSpring's data places Brighton Park at #33 with a ~82% average Survivability Score.

The most promising business types in the best locations score a ~2% higher chance of surviving 2 years than the average.
But at poorly chosen addresses within Brighton Park, even the top-ranked business types can fall well below the neighborhood average. Location selection remains critical — a promising concept at the wrong spot still carries significant risk.
At 92.0% employed, Brighton Park's consumer base has the spending capacity that makes the neighborhood viable for a wide range of business types — though location selection within the neighborhood still determines actual survivability.

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

How to choose a specific location in Brighton Park

With StreetSpring, location selection in Brighton Park moves from guesswork to a precise, address-level survivability score for any business type you're considering. The map below highlights the highest-survivability address for an Italian Restaurant in Brighton Park:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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The highlighted area represents the address in Brighton Park that StreetSpring's 2026 analysis ranks highest for an Italian Restaurant survivability. However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. StreetSpring's scoring incorporates 100 inputs, including competitive quality and density, projected consumer spending, Revenue Capture Score, and mobility data.

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The strongest business categories for Brighton Park

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Brighton Park

Italian Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Brighton Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~91%, challenging at ~88%.
Taiwanese Restaurant — ~88%–~92% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Brighton Park.
Opening a Kosher Restaurant in Brighton Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~92%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
Bangladeshi Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~90% average in Brighton Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~88%.
South American Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Brighton Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~91%, challenging at ~88%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Brighton Park

Chinese Restaurant — ~88%–~91% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Brighton Park.
Opening an Indonesian Restaurant in Brighton Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~92%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
Deli (Ranked #8): ~90% average in Brighton Park. Best-case storefronts: ~91%. Challenging locations: ~88%.
French Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Brighton Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~91%, challenging at ~88%.
Brunch Restaurant — ~87%–~92% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Brighton Park.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

The revenue potential of a Brighton Park location

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations for your business in Brighton Park could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~3% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

Site-specific factors can dramatically alter outcomes even within the same neighborhood.
Survivability data consistently shows location accounts for more variance in business outcomes than any other controllable factor.
StreetSpring's analysis shows that businesses in top-scoring locations generate meaningfully more revenue and stay open longer than those in average locations.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

What businesses should open next in Brighton Park?

The top businesses to open next in Brighton Park:

Italian Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate, up to ~91% at best locations
Taiwanese Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate
Kosher Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate

However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. Our analysis covers every major metro in the country — 24 cities and 180 million++ consumers. The 6.6% commercial vacancy rate in Brighton Park means there is available space for new entrants — but it also signals that survivability depends heavily on choosing the right address within the neighborhood, not just the neighborhood itself. StreetSpring updates survivability scores for available locations weekly — check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Brighton Park 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 Brighton Park.

What type of business should you rent your Brighton Park storefront to?

If you own commercial space in Brighton Park, StreetSpring's 2026 data points to Italian Restaurants, Taiwanese Restaurants, and Kosher Restaurants as the tenant types with the strongest projected longevity at this location.

Survivability data consistently shows location accounts for more variance in business outcomes than any other controllable factor.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront. 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 Brighton Park storefront to an Italian Restaurant?

StreetSpring's data confirms an Italian Restaurant as the highest-survivability tenant type for Brighton Park. The best addresses show a ~91% chance of lasting more than 2 years; less optimal addresses score around ~88%.

Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

What should I consider when opening a business in Brighton Park?

In Brighton Park, the single most important factor in your site-selection decision is the Survivability Score of the specific address you're evaluating.

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.
Access StreetSpring's current survivability data for any address in Brighton Park for free at any time.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

Real estate professionals and business owners across 24 major metros use StreetSpring to ground their site-selection decisions in data, not guesswork. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Permits, licensing, and zoning specifics worth flagging

Factor	Where new owners get tripped up	Questions to ask before you sign
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.
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.
Insurance + compliance	General liability quoted at a starter rate, then jumping 2-3x once you add property + workers' comp + business interruption.	Get binding quotes from 2 insurers before signing the lease. Most landlords require minimum coverage levels — read those terms first.

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

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

Radar chart of business-subtype survivability in Brighton Park, Chicago — Top business types scored in Brighton Park, Chicago — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

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

**A bit of history.** Brighton Park is a community area located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. It is number 58 of the 77 community areas of Chicago. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Park%2C_Chicago))

**Daytime population context (Brighton Park):** Per US Census LEHD LODES, the median 1-mile workplace-jobs population within Brighton Park is **8,489** — about **0.2× the resident population**, which qualifies as a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Retail-sector jobs in that radius: **1,385**. This shapes which business models have a natural demand floor here.

Landmark anchor: Brighton Park is the public-space landmark in Brighton Park that shapes a meaningful share of neighborhood foot-traffic.

**Economic indicators for Brighton Park:** Three local signals — neighborhood unemployment **8.0%** (ACS; above the median we track), Chicago-area average weekly wage **$1,198** (BLS QCEW; below our metro median), and **5,308** new residential units permitted in Cook County in 2025 (Census BPS). Use these to ground demand and labor-cost assumptions for your specific business plan.

**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.

Related Resources

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Local Context FAQ

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

How educated is the population in Brighton Park?

Approximately 16% of Brighton Park adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 52% across the Chicago metro. Lower education attainment shifts demand toward value retail, services, and everyday needs.

Is Brighton Park more a residential or work-destination neighborhood?

Brighton Park's median commute (~35 min) is below the Chicago metro median (35 min). Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

How many people live in Brighton Park?

Approximately 42.7K people live in Brighton Park, which puts it in the top quintile by population among Chicago neighborhoods. A larger resident base supports a broader range of business types and can absorb more direct competitors.