What are the best businesses to open in Old Redford?

The top businesses to open in Old Redford include Kosher Restaurant with a ~82% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~84%, followed by Ukrainian Restaurant and Italian Restaurant.

How much money could a business in Old Redford make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Old Redford could lead to making ~3% more than selecting an average location, and ~5% more than one of the worst locations.

What businesses are most in demand in Old Redford?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Old Redford are Kosher Restaurants, Ukrainian Restaurants, and Italian Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Old Redford, Detroit

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Old Redford is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~82% 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 Old Redford (~82% average survival rate, ~84% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #35 across all neighborhoods in and around Detroit

Neighborhood average: ~72% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed and updated: April 30, 2026 — Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Old Redford 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 Old Redford is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~82% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~84% chance; next is an Ukrainian Restaurant with a ~81% chance, followed by an Italian Restaurant with a ~81% chance.

Is Old Redford a good place to start a business?

**Pattern match:** Old Redford's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Villa De San Antonio (San Antonio)** and **Bel Ridge (St. Louis)**. The three share higher poverty, lower employment, and low high-earner share, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Old Redford.

**The pattern in Old Redford.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Kosher Restaurant leads at **82% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **76-87%** (11-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Old Redford and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Gyms are already saturated here — 11 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

StreetSpring's analysis places Old Redford at #35 in Detroit for new business survival odds, with a neighborhood-wide average of ~72%.

Best-case locations for the top business types in Old Redford produce survivability scores ~3% above the neighborhood-wide average.
Yet the same categories that score highest in Old Redford can underperform significantly at the wrong address. Location precision within the neighborhood matters as much as choosing the neighborhood itself.
Old Redford's 15.3% commercial vacancy rate signals the current availability of storefronts and shapes the competitive environment that survivability scores reflect.

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 Old Redford?

StreetSpring's Old Redford data goes block by block — not just neighborhood averages — so you know which specific storefront gives your concept the strongest foundation. Below is the best location for a Kosher Restaurant in Old Redford:

Why the right block matters more than the right neighborhood

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Per the 2026 StreetSpring analysis, this circle outlines the optimal area for a Kosher Restaurant in Old Redford. These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. 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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Which business types have the highest survivability in Old Redford?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Old Redford

Kosher Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Old Redford: ~82% chance on average, best at ~84%, challenging at ~80%.
Ukrainian Restaurant — ~79%–~84% survivability range, with an average of ~81% across Old Redford.
Opening an Italian Restaurant in Old Redford shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~82%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Singaporean Restaurant (Ranked #4): ~78% average in Old Redford. Best-case storefronts: ~81%. Challenging locations: ~77%.
American Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Old Redford: ~78% chance on average, best at ~79%, challenging at ~76%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Old Redford

Pet Boarding Facility — ~76%–~80% survivability range, with an average of ~78% across Old Redford.
Opening a Salad Shop in Old Redford shows ~77% average survivability. Top locations reach ~79%; lower-end sites show ~75%.
Pet Grooming Shop (Ranked #8): ~77% average in Old Redford. Best-case storefronts: ~79%. Challenging locations: ~75%.
Watch Store or Repair Shop is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Old Redford: ~77% chance on average, best at ~80%, challenging at ~74%.
Music Store — ~74%–~79% survivability range, with an average of ~77% across Old Redford.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

What revenue can a Old Redford business expect?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations for your business in Old Redford could lead to you making ~3% 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

StreetSpring calculates survivability for each business type separately at each address — so the best location for your concept may differ from the neighborhood's overall top-ranked site.
Location shapes survivability more than branding, pricing, or operational quality — the data is unambiguous on this point.
Survivability Score is not just a survival metric — it's a revenue predictor, and the higher the score, the stronger the long-term financial outlook.
StreetSpring can pinpoint which blocks in each neighborhood or city maximize a business's chances of success.

What Old Redford needs more of (per our model)

The top businesses to open next in Old Redford:

Kosher Restaurants — ~82% average survival rate, up to ~84% at best locations
Ukrainian Restaurants — ~81% average survival rate
Italian Restaurants — ~81% 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. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. Old Redford's employment rate (86.0%) and vacancy rate (15.3%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. New competitors open and close every week, changing the survivability landscape for every address in Old Redford. 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 Old Redford.

What type of business should you rent your Old Redford storefront to?

StreetSpring's 2026 model places Kosher Restaurants, Ukrainian Restaurants, and Italian Restaurants at the top of the survivability rankings for Old Redford — making them the safest long-term tenant bets for landlords here.

Location shapes survivability more than branding, pricing, or operational quality — the data is unambiguous on this point.
StreetSpring can pinpoint which blocks in each neighborhood or city maximize a business's chances of success. StreetSpring can show you which specific address in your portfolio scores highest for each tenant type.

Should you rent your Old Redford storefront to a Kosher Restaurant?

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis strongly supports renting to a Kosher Restaurant in Old Redford: best-in-class addresses achieve ~84% survivability, and even the lower-end sites come in at ~80% — above average for most business types.

StreetSpring can pinpoint which blocks in each neighborhood or city maximize a business's chances of success.

What should I consider when opening a business in Old Redford?

When evaluating potential locations in Old Redford, start with the Survivability Score. It accounts for competition, spending, mobility, and market share in a single figure.

Of all the variables StreetSpring analyzes, Revenue Capture Score has the strongest predictive power.
StreetSpring's custom-built forecasting infrastructure powers every survivability score, combining data science with commercial real estate intelligence.
The most current survivability data for Old Redford is free to access on StreetSpring — no account required to check your specific address.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

Powered by machine learning models trained on real business outcomes, StreetSpring delivers actionable insights. Aggregated survivability rankings for Detroit are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

The hidden costs of operating in this neighborhood

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
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.
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 Detroit: /resources/data/detroit-survivability-scores-2026.csv — includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Visual Data

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

Dumbbell chart comparing best vs worst locations for businesses in Detroit — Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Detroit — the gap shows how much location choice matters for each subtype.

How we measure this: Supplier proximity matters more for some subtypes (restaurants, repair shops) than others (online-anchored retail).

**Daytime worker density (Old Redford):** LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics show a **0.1:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** for Old Redford — a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Median workplace jobs within a 1-mile radius across Old Redford: **1,298**, of which roughly **342** are retail-sector. Higher daytime ratios favor weekday-lunch / commuter-traffic businesses; balanced ratios favor residential + weekend demand patterns.

Landmark anchor: XLNC Residences is Old Redford's historical-building landmark, a real-world reference point most neighborhoods don't have.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Old Redford:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **14.0%** (above the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Detroit metro's average weekly wage at **$1,472** (in line with our 24-metro median). And Wayne County permitted **3,912** new residential units in 2025 per Census BPS — a population-and-demand growth signal.

**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

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

What's the typical commute pattern in Old Redford?

ACS data puts the median commute at ~27 minutes in Old Redford, compared to 26 minutes metro-wide. Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

Does Old Redford's poverty rate signal lower retail spending?

ACS data shows 34% of Old Redford residents below the federal poverty line, versus 20% metro-wide. Elevated poverty constrains discretionary retail; survivability is highest for essential services and value-oriented operators.

Does ownership stability in Old Redford support steady local spending?

51% of Old Redford households own their home, against 60% across the Detroit metro. The ownership profile is typical for the metro.