How much money could a business in Cottonwood make?

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

Is Cottonwood a good place to start a business?

Cottonwood is ranked number 1 across neighborhoods in and around Dallas to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~81%. Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Cottonwood show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.

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

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 Cottonwood maximize success.

What are the best businesses to open in Cottonwood?

The top businesses to open in Cottonwood include Portuguese Restaurant with a ~87% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~89%, followed by Singaporean Restaurant and Korean Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Cottonwood?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Cottonwood are Portuguese Restaurants, Singaporean Restaurants, and Korean Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Cottonwood, Dallas

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Cottonwood is a Portuguese Restaurant with a ~87% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Portuguese Restaurant in Cottonwood (~87% average survival rate, ~89% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #1 across all neighborhoods in and around Dallas

Neighborhood average: ~81% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed and updated: May 13, 2026 — Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Cottonwood 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 Cottonwood is a Portuguese Restaurant with a ~87% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~89% chance; next is a Singaporean Restaurant with a ~87% chance, followed by a Korean Restaurant with a ~87% chance.

Is Cottonwood the right neighborhood for a new business?

**Comparable neighborhoods:** Among the ~2,500 neighborhoods StreetSpring scores, Cottonwood's profile most resembles **Arnada (Portland)** and **San Marcos Country Club (Phoenix)**. All three exhibit more renters, shorter commutes, and newer housing stock — operators with experience in any of those neighborhoods will see familiar patterns in Cottonwood.

**Failure-mode analysis for Cottonwood.** The single strongest subtype in our data is **Bar** at 88% average survivability. But the within-neighborhood spread for Bars runs **78% to 92%** — meaning a poorly-sited Bar in Cottonwood can score 14 points below a well-sited one. Saturation reality check: Ukrainian Restaurants are the most-competed tracked subtype here, with 10 existing competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Across all neighborhoods in and around Dallas, StreetSpring's data places Cottonwood at #1 with a ~81% average Survivability Score.

Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Cottonwood show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.
However, those high-scoring categories placed at the least-competitive addresses in Cottonwood often fall well below average. Picking the right block — not just the right neighborhood — is what actually determines survivability.
With a 95.8% employment rate, Cottonwood has the consumer spending foundation that supports a range of brick-and-mortar business types.

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

Pinpointing the best locations within Cottonwood

StreetSpring scores survivability at the exact address level in Cottonwood — so you can compare two storefronts on the same block before committing to a lease. The map below highlights the highest-survivability address for a Portuguese Restaurant in Cottonwood:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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StreetSpring's 2026 model identifies this area as the highest-survivability location for a Portuguese Restaurant in Cottonwood. Market conditions, new competitors, and local spending patterns can change rapidly — always verify with StreetSpring's live tool before signing a lease. The model evaluates 100 factors — from primary and secondary competition to forecasted spend, mobility flows, and local market share potential.

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The strongest business categories for Cottonwood

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Cottonwood

Portuguese Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Cottonwood: ~87% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.
Singaporean Restaurant — ~86%–~89% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Cottonwood.
Opening a Korean Restaurant in Cottonwood shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~89%; lower-end sites show ~85%.
Indian Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~87% average in Cottonwood. Best-case storefronts: ~89%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Georgian Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Cottonwood: ~87% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Cottonwood

Malaysian Restaurant — ~85%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Cottonwood.
Opening a Vietnamese Restaurant in Cottonwood shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
Ethiopian Restaurant (Ranked #8): ~86% average in Cottonwood. Best-case storefronts: ~88%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Syrian Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Cottonwood: ~86% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.
Armenian Restaurant — ~84%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Cottonwood.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

What you could earn opening a business in Cottonwood

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting a storefront that StreetSpring ranks in the top tier for your business type in Cottonwood 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

No two business types have identical location needs; survivability scores reflect these differences at the address level.
Survivability data consistently shows location accounts for more variance in business outcomes than any other controllable factor.
Choosing locations with superior Survivability Scores directly correlates with higher revenue potential.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types.

What businesses should open next in Cottonwood?

The top businesses to open next in Cottonwood:

Portuguese Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate, up to ~89% at best locations
Singaporean Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate
Korean Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate

Market conditions, new competitors, and local spending patterns can change rapidly — always verify with StreetSpring's live tool before signing a lease. StreetSpring's accuracy is built on studying businesses that serve more than 180 million+ Americans across 24 cities. The 7.7% commercial vacancy rate in Cottonwood 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. New competitors open and close every week, changing the survivability landscape for every address in Cottonwood. StreetSpring's weekly updates mean you can always see the current score for any available storefront.

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 Cottonwood.

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

If you own commercial space in Cottonwood, StreetSpring's 2026 data points to Portuguese Restaurants, Singaporean Restaurants, and Korean 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.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types. Use StreetSpring to see the survivability score for any business type at your exact storefront address before you sign a lease.

Should you rent your Cottonwood storefront to a Portuguese Restaurant?

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis strongly supports renting to a Portuguese Restaurant in Cottonwood: best-in-class addresses achieve ~89% survivability, and even the lower-end sites come in at ~85% — above average for most business types.

StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types.

What should I consider when opening a business in Cottonwood?

Don't commit to a storefront in Cottonwood without first checking its Survivability Score — the difference between a 70% and a 90% score at two addresses on the same block can determine your long-term outcome.

Where survivability is highest, Revenue Capture Score is invariably strong — the two are tightly correlated across every business type we've analyzed.
The underlying models are StreetSpring's own — built, trained, and maintained using data external platforms cannot access.
StreetSpring's live survivability scores are available for free — check your specific address now.

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 Dallas are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Build-out budget rules-of-thumb for this neighborhood

Factor	Where new owners get tripped up	Questions to ask before you sign
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.
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.

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

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

How we measure this: Foot traffic measured at the city-block level using a combination of pedestrian-network analysis and Walk Score.

**LEHD demand-pattern signal (Cottonwood):** Median 1-mile workplace jobs across Cottonwood: **18,583** (LEHD LODES 2022). That works out to a **0.9:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** — a balanced mixed-use pattern. Of those workplace jobs, **487** are retail-sector. Use this to gauge whether your concept is weekday-commuter-driven or evening-and-weekend-driven.

Landmark anchor: National Scouting Museum is Cottonwood's history-museum landmark and a meaningful pull factor for visitor foot-traffic.

**Three local anchors for Cottonwood:** **4.2%** neighborhood unemployment (below the 24-metro median, ACS), **$1,401/week** average wage in the Dallas area (in line with our metro median, BLS QCEW), and **12,358** new residential units permitted in Dallas County in 2025 (Census BPS). These three together describe the demand-and-labor environment any new Cottonwood business operates within.

**Sector-level context:** BLS data (BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release) shows 5-year survival rates of **47.8%** (Active Life), **47.9%** (Retail Trade), **50.0%** (Restaurants), **50.5%** (Beauty & Personal Care), and **61.8%** (Health & Medical) — the five industry buckets covering most StreetSpring subtypes. Location-specific factors explain the rest of the variance.

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Beyond the Numbers: Local Context

More questions answered with neighborhood-specific data from our 2026 corpus.

What does the employment picture in Cottonwood look like for new businesses?

ACS labor-force data shows an employment rate of about 96% in Cottonwood, versus 96% across Dallas. Employment is close to the metro median, suggesting stable underlying demand.

How does Cottonwood's commute profile affect retail demand?

Cottonwood's median commute (~25 min) is below the Dallas metro median (26 min). Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

What survival rates does the federal government track for small businesses?

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.

Are storefronts and homes filling up or sitting empty in Cottonwood?

Approximately 8% of Cottonwood housing units are vacant — below the Dallas metro median (8%). Vacancy is close to the metro median — lease economics are typical for the area.

What's the typical household size in Cottonwood, and what does it tell us?

Average household size in Cottonwood is 2.3, versus 2.6 across the Dallas metro. Household composition is close to the metro average.