How much money could a business in Woodhaven make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Woodhaven 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 Woodhaven?

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 Woodhaven maximize success.

What are the best businesses to open in Woodhaven?

The top businesses to open in Woodhaven include Pet Grooming Shop with a ~87% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~89%, followed by Pet Boarding Facility and South African Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Woodhaven?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Woodhaven are Pet Grooming Shops, Pet Boarding Facilities, and South African Restaurants.

Is Woodhaven a good place to start a business?

Woodhaven is ranked number 4 across neighborhoods in and around Dallas to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~80%. StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Woodhaven addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~2%.

Business Survivability in Woodhaven, Dallas

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Woodhaven is a Pet Grooming Shop 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 Pet Grooming Shop in Woodhaven (~87% average survival rate, ~89% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #4 across all neighborhoods in and around Dallas

Neighborhood average: ~80% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed: May 13, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder — updated weekly

In this article:

Summary
Is Woodhaven 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 Woodhaven is a Pet Grooming Shop 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 Pet Boarding Facility with a ~87% chance, followed by a South African Restaurant with a ~87% chance.

What does the data say about opening in Woodhaven?

**How Woodhaven compares:** Woodhaven's profile most resembles **Baytown (Houston)** and **Kirkman South (Orlando)** based on the demographic and density signatures we use to model location quality — all three share less college-educated, lower-income, and low high-earner share. Patterns from those neighborhoods are directly relevant for businesses evaluating Woodhaven.

**Failure pattern in Woodhaven.** Across the 93 business subtypes we track here, the strongest is **Pet Boarding Facility** at 87% average survivability — but the best and worst sites for this subtype within Woodhaven span **73% to 92%**, a 19-point gap. **The dominant failure mode in Woodhaven isn't subtype choice — it's site selection within the neighborhood.** Saturation context: Bars are the most-concentrated tracked subtype in the area, with 6 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Across all neighborhoods in and around Dallas, StreetSpring's data places Woodhaven at #4 with a ~80% average Survivability Score.

StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Woodhaven addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~2%.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Woodhaven for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
The 93.0% employment rate in Woodhaven supports consumer spending, while a 11.8% 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.

Pinpointing the best locations within Woodhaven

StreetSpring narrows the decision down to the exact address — showing which blocks in Woodhaven produce the highest survivability scores for your concept. Of all available storefronts analyzed in Woodhaven, StreetSpring ranks this area highest for a Pet Grooming Shop in 2026:

Why the right block matters more than the right neighborhood

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StreetSpring's 2026 model identifies this area as the highest-survivability location for a Pet Grooming Shop in Woodhaven. Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. 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 Woodhaven

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Woodhaven

Pet Grooming Shop is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Woodhaven: ~87% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.
Pet Boarding Facility — ~85%–~89% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Woodhaven.
Opening a South African Restaurant in Woodhaven shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~86%.
Georgian Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~87% average in Woodhaven. Best-case storefronts: ~89%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Malaysian Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Woodhaven: ~87% chance on average, best at ~88%, challenging at ~85%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Woodhaven

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

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How location selection in Woodhaven affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, picking the highest-scoring storefront in the neighborhood in Woodhaven 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.
The address you choose determines your competitive exposure, customer flow, and spending potential simultaneously.
Every percentage point of Survivability Score represents a real difference in expected revenue — choosing the highest-scoring address is the most reliable financial decision you can make at the outset.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

Where the next great business in Woodhaven should go

The top businesses to open next in Woodhaven:

Pet Grooming Shops — ~87% average survival rate, up to ~89% at best locations
Pet Boarding Facilities — ~87% average survival rate
South African Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate

Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform — and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. We apply advanced machine learning to one of the largest commercial real estate outcome datasets in the country. The 93.0% employment rate in Woodhaven is a key signal of consumer health; when combined with the 11.8% vacancy rate, it produces a competitive landscape that favors the business types ranked above. New competitors open and close every week, changing the survivability landscape for every address in Woodhaven. StreetSpring's weekly updates mean you can always see the current score for any available storefront.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

StreetSpring's analysis shows that the business concepts that score highest for survivability at most addresses in Woodhaven are Pet Grooming Shops, Pet Boarding Facilities, and South African Restaurants.

The address you choose determines your competitive exposure, customer flow, and spending potential simultaneously.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site. Run your specific address through StreetSpring to see which tenant categories give you the best odds of stable, long-term occupancy.

Should you rent your Woodhaven storefront to a Pet Grooming Shop?

Yes. Among all business types analyzed for Woodhaven in 2026, a Pet Grooming Shop posts the highest survivability ceiling at ~89% and maintains a reasonable floor of ~85% — making it the most reliable tenant choice here.

StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

What should I consider when opening a business in Woodhaven?

When selecting a location in Woodhaven it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.

The most important driver of a high Survivability Score is the Revenue Capture Score for the business at the location it selects.
StreetSpring uses its own proprietary forecasting tools to identify the Revenue Capture Score for each unique business.
No subscription required: access the current survivability score for any Woodhaven address through StreetSpring's free tool.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring analyzes millions of data points with AI to forecast business survivability. 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
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.
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.

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.

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

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

**Daytime worker density (Woodhaven):** LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics show a **0.1:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** for Woodhaven — a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Median workplace jobs within a 1-mile radius across Woodhaven: **1,907**, of which roughly **462** are retail-sector. Higher daytime ratios favor weekday-lunch / commuter-traffic businesses; balanced ratios favor residential + weekend demand patterns.

Landmark anchor: Woodhaven's park anchor is Woodhaven Professional Park, Fort Worth, Texas, which sets weekend and warm-weather foot-traffic patterns for the surrounding blocks.

**Woodhaven economic snapshot:** ACS reports neighborhood unemployment at **7.0%** (above the 24-metro neighborhood median we track). The Dallas metro's BLS QCEW average weekly wage is **$1,401** (in line with our metro median), and the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey logged **12,358** new residential permits in Dallas County in 2025 — useful triangulation for population-growth and labor-cost assumptions in this neighborhood.

**BLS sector context:** Across the 11 industries StreetSpring tracks, 5-year survival rates from BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release range from **47.8%** (Active Life — gyms, studios) to **61.8%** (Health & Medical). Restaurants — the largest single category in our corpus — average **50.0%** nationally, and retail averages **47.9%**.

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Local Data Questions

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

Is Woodhaven more a residential or work-destination neighborhood?

ACS data puts the median commute at ~26 minutes in Woodhaven, compared to 26 minutes metro-wide. Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

Is Woodhaven's population younger or older than the Dallas average?

Woodhaven's median age is 35 versus a Dallas metro median of 35 — younger by 1 year. This shapes which business types tend to survive: The demographic profile is close to the metro average, so business-type fit is driven by other factors like income and competition.

How does Woodhaven's employment rate affect business survivability?

ACS labor-force data shows an employment rate of about 93% in Woodhaven, versus 96% across Dallas. Below-average employment can constrain discretionary spending — value-oriented and essential services tend to fare better.

How does economic hardship in Woodhaven compare to the metro?

19% of Woodhaven households fall below the federal poverty line — above the Dallas metro median (12%). Elevated poverty constrains discretionary retail; survivability is highest for essential services and value-oriented operators.