What businesses are most in demand in Buena Park?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Buena Park are Ukrainian Restaurants, Italian Restaurants, and Filipino Restaurants.

Is Buena Park a good place to start a business?

Buena Park is ranked number 29 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~83%. Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Buena Park show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.

How much money could a business in Buena Park make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Buena Park could lead to making ~2% more than selecting an average location, and ~5% more than one of the worst locations.

Business Survivability in Buena Park, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Buena Park is an Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian Restaurant in Buena Park (~90% average survival rate, ~92% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #29 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~83% 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 10, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Buena 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 Buena Park is an Ukrainian Restaurant with a ~90% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~92% chance; next is an Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance, followed by a Filipino Restaurant with a ~90% chance.

Should you open a business in Buena Park?

**Where else does Buena Park look like?** The strongest demographic and amenity-density matches are **The Villa (Chicago)** and **Academy Gardens (Philadelphia)**, sharing longer commutes, blue-collar job mix, and more transit-reliant. If you've worked in either of those neighborhoods, expect Buena Park to behave similarly on the dimensions that drive survival.

**What goes wrong in Buena Park.** Across 93 subtypes we track, **Ukrainian Restaurant averages 90%** — the highest in the neighborhood. Yet a site-level look shows Ukrainian Restaurants range from **81% to 97%** across Buena Park — a 16-point window where the address, not the concept, decides the outcome. For competitive density: Kosher Restaurants are the most-concentrated tracked subtype (1 within 0.5 miles).

StreetSpring ranks Buena Park #29 among all analyzed neighborhoods in and around Chicago, with a neighborhood-wide average survivability of ~83%.

Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Buena Park show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.
But these same concepts at less optimal addresses within Buena Park can score meaningfully below average. Survivability data shows that even the highest-demand business types fail at the wrong location.
At 95.3% employed, Buena 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 can you find the best location to open a business in Buena Park?

StreetSpring narrows the decision down to the exact address — showing which blocks in Buena Park produce the highest survivability scores for your concept. The location below represents the address in Buena Park with the highest projected survivability for an Ukrainian Restaurant:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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StreetSpring's 2026 survivability data flags this circle as the prime block for an Ukrainian Restaurant in Buena Park. Market conditions are changing daily, and it is best to use StreetSpring's most up-to-date data. 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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What are the best businesses to open in Buena Park?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Buena Park

Ukrainian Restaurant (Ranked #1): ~90% average in Buena Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~88%.
Italian Restaurant is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Buena Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~92%, challenging at ~89%.
Filipino Restaurant — ~88%–~92% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Buena Park.
Opening a Taiwanese Restaurant in Buena Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~92%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
Brazilian Restaurant (Ranked #5): ~90% average in Buena Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~88%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Buena Park

Chicken Shop is ranked #6 for top businesses to open in Buena Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~92%, challenging at ~89%.
Hungarian Restaurant — ~88%–~91% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Buena Park.
Opening a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Buena Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~92%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
South American Restaurant (Ranked #9): ~90% average in Buena Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~88%.
Armenian Restaurant is ranked #10 for top businesses to open in Buena Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~92%, challenging at ~88%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Filipino Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

How location selection in Buena Park affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in Buena Park could lead to you making ~2% 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

Every business type has unique location requirements that must be considered.
Location shapes survivability more than branding, pricing, or operational quality — the data is unambiguous on this point.
StreetSpring's analysis shows that businesses in top-scoring locations generate meaningfully more revenue and stay open longer than those in average locations.
Two storefronts on the same street can have survivability scores that differ by 20 points or more — StreetSpring calculates each one individually.

What businesses should open next in Buena Park?

The top businesses to open next in Buena Park:

Ukrainian Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate, up to ~92% at best locations
Italian Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate
Filipino Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate

Market conditions are changing daily, and it is best to use StreetSpring's most up-to-date data. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. Buena Park sits at 95.3% employment and 9.4% commercial vacancy — conditions that set the ceiling and floor for Revenue Capture potential across all business types here. Survivability scores are recalculated weekly as new competitors open and spending patterns shift — visit StreetSpring to see the current score for any open location in Buena Park right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, the strongest tenant types for a storefront in Buena Park are Ukrainian Restaurants, Italian Restaurants, and Filipino Restaurants.

Location shapes survivability more than branding, pricing, or operational quality — the data is unambiguous on this point.
Two storefronts on the same street can have survivability scores that differ by 20 points or more — StreetSpring calculates each one individually. Rather than guessing which tenant type will last, landlords can verify survivability for each category at their exact address using StreetSpring.

Should you rent your Buena Park storefront to an Ukrainian Restaurant?

StreetSpring's data confirms an Ukrainian Restaurant as the highest-survivability tenant type for Buena Park. The best addresses show a ~92% chance of lasting more than 2 years; less optimal addresses score around ~88%.

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 Buena Park?

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

Among all the inputs that shape survivability, Revenue Capture Score carries the most predictive weight.
StreetSpring's in-house models are continuously updated with new business outcome data to keep predictions accurate.
StreetSpring offers free access to its survivability scores — see how your shortlisted Buena Park addresses rank right now.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring's AI platform has studied businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans, giving its predictions a scale of validation unmatched in site-selection tools. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago 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
Parking & visibility	Storefront looks great from the sidewalk but is invisible from the road.	Drive past at 30 mph from both directions. Count street parking + nearest paid lot capacity at peak hours.
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.
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 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

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

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.

How we measure this: Annual rent / estimated annual revenue = rent burden ratio. Industry rule of thumb: above 12% is uncomfortable, above 18% is fatal.

**Neighborhood context.** Uptown is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Foster Avenue to the north; Montrose Avenue and Irving Park Road to the south; Lake Michigan to the east; and Ravenswood Avenue and Clark Street to the west. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown%2C_Chicago).

**Daytime population context (Buena Park):** Per US Census LEHD LODES, the median 1-mile workplace-jobs population within Buena Park is **13,616** — about **0.8× the resident population**, which qualifies as a balanced mixed-use pattern. Retail-sector jobs in that radius: **1,434**. This shapes which business models have a natural demand floor here.

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

**Local economic context (Buena Park, Chicago):** Buena Park's ACS unemployment rate is **4.7%** (below the 24-metro neighborhood median). County-level data adds two more anchors: BLS QCEW reports Chicago-area average weekly wage of **$1,198** (below our 24-metro median), and the Census Bureau Building Permits Survey logged **5,308** new residential units in Cook County in 2025 — a rough proxy for the local growth environment a new business is opening into.

**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.

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Neighborhood-Specific Questions

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

How many people live in Buena Park?

ACS data estimates the Buena Park resident population at roughly 17.8K. The resident base is moderate; business-type fit depends more on capturing nearby commuter or destination traffic.

What's the typical commute pattern in Buena Park?

ACS data puts the median commute at ~37 minutes in Buena Park, compared to 35 minutes metro-wide. Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

How does income in Buena Park compare to the rest of Chicago?

ACS data shows median household income in Buena Park at roughly $104K, compared to $103K across the Chicago metro. Income is close to the metro median, so business-type fit depends more on local demographics and competition.