What are the best businesses to open in Roseland?

The top businesses to open in Roseland include Filipino Restaurant with a ~92% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~94%, followed by Indonesian Restaurant and American Restaurant.

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

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 Roseland maximize success.

What businesses are most in demand in Roseland?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Roseland are Filipino Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and American Restaurants.

How much money could a business in Roseland make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Roseland could lead to making ~2% more than selecting an average location, and ~4% more than one of the worst locations.

Is Roseland a good place to start a business?

Roseland is ranked number 5 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~85%. The highest-scoring business types in Roseland — at their optimal addresses — outperform the neighborhood average by ~2%.

Business Survivability in Roseland, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Roseland is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~92% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•18 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Filipino Restaurant in Roseland (~92% average survival rate, ~94% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #5 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~85% 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 5, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Roseland 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 Roseland is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~92% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~94% chance; next is an Indonesian Restaurant with a ~92% chance, followed by an American Restaurant with a ~92% chance.

Should you open a business in Roseland?

**Pattern match:** Roseland's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Avalon Park (Chicago)** and **Penrose (Philadelphia)**. The three share lower employment, longer commutes, and blue-collar job mix, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Roseland.

**The pattern in Roseland.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Filipino Restaurant leads at **92% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **78-98%** (20-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Roseland 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.

Roseland is ranked number 5 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~85%.

The highest-scoring business types in Roseland — at their optimal addresses — outperform the neighborhood average by ~2%.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Roseland for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
The 20.4% commercial vacancy rate in Roseland 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.

Which blocks in Roseland offer the strongest survivability?

Rather than relying on neighborhood averages, StreetSpring's scoring tells you which specific addresses in Roseland give your concept the best odds of survival. The map below shows the highest-scoring storefront area for a Filipino Restaurant in Roseland per 2026 data:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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This map shows the optimal location for a Filipino Restaurant in Roseland based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis. Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. The prediction model incorporates 100 location-specific factors, including competitive density, forecasted consumer spending, mobility patterns, and Revenue Capture Score.

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Top-ranked business types for Roseland

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Roseland

Filipino Restaurant (Ranked #1): ~92% average in Roseland. Best-case storefronts: ~94%. Challenging locations: ~90%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Roseland: ~92% chance on average, best at ~94%, challenging at ~91%.
American Restaurant — ~90%–~94% survivability range, with an average of ~92% across Roseland.
Opening an Italian Restaurant in Roseland shows ~92% average survivability. Top locations reach ~94%; lower-end sites show ~91%.
Ukrainian Restaurant (Ranked #5): ~92% average in Roseland. Best-case storefronts: ~95%. Challenging locations: ~90%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Roseland

Kosher Restaurant is ranked #6 for top businesses to open in Roseland: ~92% chance on average, best at ~94%, challenging at ~90%.
Bangladeshi Restaurant — ~91%–~95% survivability range, with an average of ~92% across Roseland.
Opening a South American Restaurant in Roseland shows ~92% average survivability. Top locations reach ~94%; lower-end sites show ~90%.
Deli (Ranked #9): ~92% average in Roseland. Best-case storefronts: ~94%. Challenging locations: ~91%.
Chinese Restaurant is ranked #10 for top businesses to open in Roseland: ~92% chance on average, best at ~94%, challenging at ~91%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Filipino Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →
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How location selection in Roseland affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations for your business in Roseland could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~4% 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.
Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
Choosing locations with superior Survivability Scores directly correlates with higher revenue potential.
StreetSpring analyzes your specific address against comparable businesses to forecast success.

Which business types are most underserved in Roseland?

The top businesses to open next in Roseland:

Filipino Restaurants — ~92% average survival rate, up to ~94% at best locations
Indonesian Restaurants — ~92% average survival rate
American Restaurants — ~92% average survival rate

Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. We have been studying the businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans. A 20.4% vacancy rate in Roseland reflects the current commercial environment; StreetSpring weights this directly in every survivability score for addresses in this neighborhood. Survivability scores are live, not static — StreetSpring updates them weekly. Visit the tool to see what's currently available in Roseland and how each address is scoring right now.

See the Survivability Score for your new business

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

The analysis is clear: in Roseland, Filipino Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and American Restaurants consistently score highest on survivability, giving landlords the best chance of retaining tenants for 2+ years.

Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
StreetSpring analyzes your specific address against comparable businesses to forecast success. 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 Roseland storefront to a Filipino Restaurant?

StreetSpring's data confirms a Filipino Restaurant as the highest-survivability tenant type for Roseland. The best addresses show a ~94% chance of lasting more than 2 years; less optimal addresses score around ~90%.

StreetSpring analyzes your specific address against comparable businesses to forecast success.

What should I consider when opening a business in Roseland?

In Roseland, 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.
These forecasts are generated using StreetSpring's unique analytical framework.
StreetSpring's live scoring tool is free: enter any address in Roseland to see its current Survivability Score for your business type.

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.

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 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.

How we measure this: Our gradient-boosted survivability model has 100+ input features. The waterfall shows the top 6-8 contributors to a final score.

**About this neighborhood.** Roseland is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, on the far south side of the city. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood, Princeton Park, Lilydale, the southern portion of West Chesterfield, Rosemoor, Sheldon Heights and West Roseland. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland%2C_Chicago).

**Daytime population context (Roseland):** Per US Census LEHD LODES, the median 1-mile workplace-jobs population within Roseland is **1,776** — about **0.0× the resident population**, which qualifies as a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Retail-sector jobs in that radius: **240**. This shapes which business models have a natural demand floor here.

Landmark anchor: Roseland hosts National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, a history-museum that gives the neighborhood a cultural-destination layer most blocks don't have.

**Local economic context (Roseland, Chicago):** Roseland's ACS unemployment rate is **15.9%** (above 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.

**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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Local Data Questions

Additional questions with answers drawn directly from local data sources.

Is Roseland more single-occupant or family-household?

ACS data puts average household size in Roseland at 2.6, compared to 2.3 across Chicago. Household composition is close to the metro average.

What is the median age in Roseland, and what does that mean for businesses?

ACS data puts Roseland's median age at 40, compared to the Chicago metro median of 37. That's older by 3 years — An older profile tends to favor healthcare, professional services, and family-oriented retail over nightlife.

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

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.

How does Roseland's employment rate affect business survivability?

ACS labor-force data shows an employment rate of about 84% in Roseland, versus 94% across Chicago. Below-average employment can constrain discretionary spending — value-oriented and essential services tend to fare better.

How educated is the population in Roseland?

Approximately 22% of Roseland 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.