How much money could a business in Douglas Park make?

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

How can you find the best location to open a business in Douglas 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 Douglas Park maximize success.

What are the best businesses to open in Douglas Park?

The top businesses to open in Douglas Park include Kosher Restaurant with a ~86% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~88%, followed by American Restaurant and Ukrainian Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Douglas Park?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Douglas Park are Kosher Restaurants, American Restaurants, and Ukrainian Restaurants.

Is Douglas Park a good place to start a business?

Douglas Park is ranked number 76 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~78%. The top business types in Douglas Park, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~2% above the neighborhood-wide average.

Business Survivability in Douglas Park, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Douglas Park is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~86% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Kosher Restaurant in Douglas Park (~86% average survival rate, ~88% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #76 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~78% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed and updated: April 25, 2026 — Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Douglas 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 Douglas Park is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~86% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~88% chance; next is an American Restaurant with a ~86% chance, followed by an Ukrainian Restaurant with a ~86% chance.

Is Douglas Park the right neighborhood for a new business?

**Pattern match:** Douglas Park's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Washington Park (Chicago)** and **Bartram Village (Philadelphia)**. The three share lower employment, higher poverty, and low high-earner share, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Douglas Park.

**The pattern in Douglas Park.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, American Restaurant leads at **86% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **68-98%** (30-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Douglas Park and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Bars are already saturated here — 4 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Out of all neighborhoods analyzed in and around Chicago, Douglas Park ranks #76 for business survivability with a ~78% average Survivability Score.

The top business types in Douglas Park, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~2% above the neighborhood-wide average.
However, those same business types at the weakest addresses in Douglas Park can score considerably below average. Even the most in-demand concept in Douglas Park will struggle if it opens at the wrong address.
The 15.7% commercial vacancy rate in Douglas Park is a leading indicator of the neighborhood's business health; StreetSpring factors this directly into each business type's survivability score.

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

How to choose a specific location in Douglas Park

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Douglas Park that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. Here is the top survivability address for a Kosher Restaurant in Douglas Park, per StreetSpring's 2026 model:

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StreetSpring's 2026 model identifies this area as the highest-survivability location for a Kosher Restaurant in Douglas Park. These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. The model evaluates 100 factors — from primary and secondary competition to forecasted spend, mobility flows, and local market share potential.

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Top-ranked business types for Douglas Park

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Douglas Park

Kosher Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Douglas Park: ~86% chance on average, best at ~88%, challenging at ~84%.
American Restaurant — ~84%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Douglas Park.
Opening an Ukrainian Restaurant in Douglas Park shows ~86% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
Filipino Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~86% average in Douglas Park. Best-case storefronts: ~87%. Challenging locations: ~84%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Douglas Park: ~86% chance on average, best at ~88%, challenging at ~84%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Douglas Park

Italian Restaurant — ~84%–~87% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Douglas Park.
Opening a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Douglas Park shows ~85% average survivability. Top locations reach ~87%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
Chinese Restaurant (Ranked #8): ~85% average in Douglas Park. Best-case storefronts: ~87%. Challenging locations: ~84%.
South American Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Douglas Park: ~85% chance on average, best at ~87%, challenging at ~83%.
Deli — ~84%–~87% survivability range, with an average of ~85% across Douglas Park.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

American Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

What revenue can a Douglas Park business expect?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing an address that maximizes your Revenue Capture Score in Douglas 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

Even within a high-performing neighborhood, the best location varies by business type — StreetSpring scores each combination separately.
Location is the biggest factor in a business's future success.
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.

What businesses should open next in Douglas Park?

The top businesses to open next in Douglas Park:

Kosher Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate, up to ~88% at best locations
American Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate
Ukrainian Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate

These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. We apply advanced machine learning to one of the largest commercial real estate outcome datasets in the country. Douglas Park's employment rate (83.2%) and vacancy rate (15.7%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. 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 Douglas Park right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

For landlords in Douglas Park, StreetSpring's 2026 analysis identifies Kosher Restaurants, American Restaurants, and Ukrainian Restaurants as the business types most likely to produce stable, long-term tenancy.

Location is the biggest factor in a business's future success.
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 Douglas Park storefront to a Kosher Restaurant?

The data shows a Kosher Restaurant is the safest long-term bet for a Douglas Park storefront. Top locations reach ~88% survivability; the least favorable addresses in this neighborhood score around ~84%.

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 Douglas Park?

StreetSpring's Survivability Score for your Douglas Park address is the clearest forward-looking indicator of whether your business will be operating two years from now — make it the first number you check.

High Revenue Capture Score is the clearest signal that a location can sustain a business over the long term.
These predictions are generated by StreetSpring's proprietary machine learning system, validated against hundreds of thousands of real business outcomes.
You can access the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring for free.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

Using predictive analytics, StreetSpring helps entrepreneurs and landlords make smarter location decisions. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago 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
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.
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.
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

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 Douglas Park, Chicago — Top business types scored in Douglas Park, Chicago — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

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.

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

**Daytime worker density (Douglas Park):** LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics show a **0.2:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** for Douglas Park — a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Median workplace jobs within a 1-mile radius across Douglas Park: **7,538**, of which roughly **730** are retail-sector. Higher daytime ratios favor weekday-lunch / commuter-traffic businesses; balanced ratios favor residential + weekend demand patterns.

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

**Economic indicators for Douglas Park:** Three local signals — neighborhood unemployment **16.8%** (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.

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Neighborhood-Specific Questions

Beyond the general FAQ — data-anchored answers for this specific location.

How does Chicago's survivability compare to national sector averages?

Per BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025), 5-year survival rates by sector range from 47.8% (Active Life — gyms, studios) to 61.8% (Health & Medical), with Restaurants at 50% and Retail at 47.9%. Chicago-specific factors layer on top of these national baselines.

How does Douglas Park's commute profile affect retail demand?

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

What does household composition look like in Douglas Park?

Douglas Park's average household has 2.5 people — above the Chicago metro average (2.3). Household composition is close to the metro average.