How much money could a business in Oak Cliff make?

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

What businesses are most in demand in Oak Cliff?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Oak Cliff are Caribbean / Latin Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and Bangladeshi Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Oak Cliff, Dallas

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Oak Cliff is a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant with a ~84% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•18 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant in Oak Cliff (~84% average survival rate, ~85% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #18 across all neighborhoods in and around Dallas

Neighborhood average: ~79% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed: May 4, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder

In this article:

Summary
Is Oak Cliff 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 Oak Cliff is a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant with a ~84% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~85% chance; next is an Indonesian Restaurant with a ~84% chance, followed by a Bangladeshi Restaurant with a ~84% chance.

Is Oak Cliff a good place to start a business?

**Peer neighborhoods:** Looking at demographic mix and amenity density across the 24 metros StreetSpring covers, Oak Cliff clusters most tightly with **Seminole Heights (Tampa Bay)** and **Spring Branch North (Houston)**. Common thread: low high-earner share, less transit-reliant, and less college-educated. Survival outcomes for those neighborhoods provide a useful comparison set for Oak Cliff.

**Where Oak Cliff businesses actually fail.** Among the 93 tracked subtypes, **Bangladeshi Restaurants** post the highest average survivability (84%). But across Oak Cliff's sites, the spread for this subtype runs **76% to 91%** — a 15-point gap that says *the address matters more than the subtype*. For saturation context, Ukrainian Restaurants are the most densely-clustered tracked subtype in the neighborhood (12 competitors within 0.5 miles).

Out of all neighborhoods analyzed in and around Dallas, Oak Cliff ranks #18 for business survivability with a ~79% average Survivability Score.

At the strongest addresses in Oak Cliff, the most viable business types score ~2% higher than the average survivability rate across all locations.
But at poorly chosen addresses within Oak Cliff, 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.
The 95.1% employment rate in Oak Cliff supports consumer spending, while a 9.2% vacancy rate reflects available storefronts — both of which shape the survivability landscape for any new business here.

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 Oak Cliff?

StreetSpring narrows the decision down to the exact address — showing which blocks in Oak Cliff produce the highest survivability scores for your concept. Here is the top survivability address for a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant in Oak Cliff, per StreetSpring's 2026 model:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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Per the 2026 StreetSpring analysis, this circle outlines the optimal area for a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant in Oak Cliff. Surface conditions can change in a week — for the most current score, the live StreetSpring tool beats any static page. 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 Oak Cliff?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Oak Cliff

Caribbean / Latin Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Oak Cliff: ~84% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~82%.
Indonesian Restaurant — ~82%–~86% survivability range, with an average of ~84% across Oak Cliff.
Opening a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Oak Cliff shows ~84% average survivability. Top locations reach ~86%; lower-end sites show ~82%.
Georgian Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~84% average in Oak Cliff. Best-case storefronts: ~85%. Challenging locations: ~82%.
Malaysian Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Oak Cliff: ~84% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~82%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Oak Cliff

Japanese / Sushi Restaurant — ~81%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~83% across Oak Cliff.
Opening a Pet Store in Oak Cliff shows ~83% average survivability. Top locations reach ~85%; lower-end sites show ~81%.
Pet Grooming Shop (Ranked #8): ~83% average in Oak Cliff. Best-case storefronts: ~85%. Challenging locations: ~81%.
Ethiopian Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Oak Cliff: ~83% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~82%.
Armenian Restaurant — ~81%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~83% across Oak Cliff.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Caribbean / Latin Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →
Bangladeshi Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

What you could earn opening a business in Oak Cliff

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations for your business in Oak Cliff 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

Location fit is business-type-specific: a spot that's ideal for a coffee shop may underperform for a nail salon at the same address.
Location is the biggest factor in a business's future success.
Maximizing your Survivability Score is the most reliable path to profitability.
Every survivability score StreetSpring produces is specific to the exact address and business type — not averaged across a zip code or neighborhood.

What Oak Cliff needs more of (per our model)

The top businesses to open next in Oak Cliff:

Caribbean / Latin Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate, up to ~85% at best locations
Indonesian Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate
Bangladeshi Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate

Market conditions are changing daily, and it is best to use StreetSpring's most up-to-date data. The model draws from 100+ location-specific factors to generate each survivability score. Oak Cliff sits at 95.1% employment and 9.2% 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 Oak Cliff right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

What type of business should you rent your Oak Cliff storefront to?

The analysis is clear: in Oak Cliff, Caribbean / Latin Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and Bangladeshi Restaurants consistently score highest on survivability, giving landlords the best chance of retaining tenants for 2+ years.

Location is the biggest factor in a business's future success.
Every survivability score StreetSpring produces is specific to the exact address and business type — not averaged across a zip code or neighborhood. 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 Oak Cliff storefront to a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant ranks as the top tenant type for your Oak Cliff storefront — best-case locations show a ~85% survival rate, while the most challenging addresses drop to ~82%.

Every survivability score StreetSpring produces is specific to the exact address and business type — not averaged across a zip code or neighborhood.

What should I consider when opening a business in Oak Cliff?

Before committing to any location in Oak Cliff, the highest-priority metric to check is the Survivability Score — it encodes every relevant location factor into a single, actionable number.

The Revenue Capture Score at a specific address explains more about likely business success than any other available metric.
StreetSpring's custom-built forecasting infrastructure powers every survivability score, combining data science with commercial real estate intelligence.
Access StreetSpring's current survivability data for any address in Oak Cliff for free at any time.

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

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

Consideration	Common pitfall	What to verify before signing
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.
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.
Lease term	Locking into 7-10 years without break clauses, then needing to relocate after year 2.	Negotiate a relocation or termination clause. Confirm assignment + sublease rights are in writing.

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

Radar chart of business-subtype survivability in Oak Cliff, Dallas — Top business types scored in Oak Cliff, Dallas — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

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

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

**About this neighborhood.** Oak Cliff is a neighborhood located in Dallas, Texas, United States that was formerly a separate town in Dallas County; established in 1887 and annexed by Dallas in 1903, Oak Cliff has retained a distinct neighborhood identity as one of Dallas' older established neighborhoods. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Cliff).

**LEHD demand-pattern signal (Oak Cliff):** Median 1-mile workplace jobs across Oak Cliff: **8,713** (LEHD LODES 2022). That works out to a **0.1:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** — a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Of those workplace jobs, **685** are retail-sector. Use this to gauge whether your concept is weekday-commuter-driven or evening-and-weekend-driven.

Landmark anchor: Oak Cliff's cultural-anchor is Selena (2018) Mural by Jeremy Biggers, an art-museum that pulls weekend and tourist foot-traffic into the surrounding blocks.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Oak Cliff:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **4.9%** (in line with the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Dallas metro's average weekly wage at **$1,401** (in line with our 24-metro median). And Dallas County permitted **12,358** new residential units in 2025 per Census BPS — a population-and-demand growth signal.

**Authoritative baseline:** BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release publishes 5-year survival rates by industry. For sectors StreetSpring covers, the range runs from **47.8%** (Active Life) to **61.8%** (Health & Medical), with restaurants at **50.0%** and retail at **47.9%**. Location-specific factors drive the actual variance around these baselines.

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Beyond the Numbers: Local Context

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

Is Oak Cliff a high-employment or high-unemployment area?

Roughly 95% of Oak Cliff's working-age population is employed, against a Dallas metro median of 96%. Employment is close to the metro median, suggesting stable underlying demand.

What does household composition look like in Oak Cliff?

Oak Cliff's average household has 2.7 people — above the Dallas metro average (2.6). Household composition is close to the metro average.

How does income in Oak Cliff compare to the rest of Dallas?

Median household income in Oak Cliff is approximately $88K, versus the Dallas metro median of $95K — below the metro by $7K. Income is close to the metro median, so business-type fit depends more on local demographics and competition.

Is Oak Cliff more a residential or work-destination neighborhood?

Median commute time in Oak Cliff is about 28 minutes, versus 26 minutes across the Dallas metro. Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.