What businesses are most in demand in Alamitos Beach?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Alamitos Beach are African Restaurants, Japanese / Sushi Restaurants, and Taiwanese Restaurants.

What are the best businesses to open in Alamitos Beach?

The top businesses to open in Alamitos Beach include African Restaurant with a ~85% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~86%, followed by Japanese / Sushi Restaurant and Taiwanese Restaurant.

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

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 Alamitos Beach maximize success.

Is Alamitos Beach a good place to start a business?

Alamitos Beach is ranked number 88 across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~76%. The top business types in Alamitos Beach, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~2% above the neighborhood-wide average.

How much money could a business in Alamitos Beach make?

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

Business Survivability in Alamitos Beach, Los Angeles

Q: What is the median household income in Alamitos Beach?

Alamitos Beach's median household income (~$91K) is below the Los Angeles metro median (~$113K) by approximately $22K. Lower median income tends to favor value-oriented retail, fast-casual food, and necessity-driven services.

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Alamitos Beach is an African Restaurant with a ~85% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: an African Restaurant in Alamitos Beach (~85% average survival rate, ~86% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #88 across all neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles

Neighborhood average: ~76% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring — April 25, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Alamitos Beach 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 Alamitos Beach is an African Restaurant with a ~85% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~86% chance; next is a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant with a ~84% chance, followed by a Taiwanese Restaurant with a ~83% chance.

Is Alamitos Beach the right neighborhood for a new business?

**How Alamitos Beach compares:** Alamitos Beach's profile most resembles **Zaferia (Los Angeles)** and **Hialeah (Miami)** based on the demographic and density signatures we use to model location quality — all three share longer commutes, older housing stock, and less transit-reliant. Patterns from those neighborhoods are directly relevant for businesses evaluating Alamitos Beach.

**Failure pattern in Alamitos Beach.** Across the 93 business subtypes we track here, the strongest is **Japanese / Sushi Restaurant** at 84% average survivability — but the best and worst sites for this subtype within Alamitos Beach span **78% to 86%**, a 8-point gap. **The dominant failure mode in Alamitos Beach isn't subtype choice — it's site selection within the neighborhood.** Saturation context: Ukrainian Restaurants are the most-concentrated tracked subtype in the area, with 22 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Alamitos Beach is ranked number 88 across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~76%.

The top business types in Alamitos Beach, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~2% above the neighborhood-wide average.
Still, those same business types at weaker addresses in Alamitos Beach can score well below the neighborhood mean. Even the most viable concept here requires the right address to reach its potential.
StreetSpring's model incorporates Alamitos Beach's 9.7% vacancy rate as a direct input: higher vacancy concentrations suppress foot traffic and reduce survivability for nearby businesses.

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

Pinpointing the best locations within Alamitos Beach

With StreetSpring, location selection in Alamitos Beach moves from guesswork to a precise, address-level survivability score for any business type you're considering. Below is the best location for an African Restaurant in Alamitos Beach:

The locations that show up in our top-10 lists

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This map shows the optimal location for an African Restaurant in Alamitos Beach based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis. These rankings are based on the latest available data; check StreetSpring for real-time updates. The prediction model incorporates 100 location-specific factors, including competitive density, forecasted consumer spending, mobility patterns, and Revenue Capture Score.

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The strongest business categories for Alamitos Beach

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Alamitos Beach

Opening an African Restaurant in Alamitos Beach shows ~85% average survivability. Top locations reach ~86%; lower-end sites show ~83%.
Japanese / Sushi Restaurant (Ranked #2): ~84% average in Alamitos Beach. Best-case storefronts: ~85%. Challenging locations: ~81%.
Taiwanese Restaurant is ranked #3 for top businesses to open in Alamitos Beach: ~83% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~81%.
Brunch Restaurant — ~81%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~83% across Alamitos Beach.
Opening a Singaporean Restaurant in Alamitos Beach shows ~82% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~80%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Alamitos Beach

Indonesian Restaurant (Ranked #6): ~81% average in Alamitos Beach. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~80%.
Diner is ranked #7 for top businesses to open in Alamitos Beach: ~81% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~79%.
Bangladeshi Restaurant — ~79%–~83% survivability range, with an average of ~81% across Alamitos Beach.
Opening a Russian Restaurant in Alamitos Beach shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~82%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Kosher Restaurant (Ranked #10): ~80% average in Alamitos Beach. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~79%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

African Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

How location selection in Alamitos Beach affects revenue

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, picking the highest-scoring storefront in the neighborhood in Alamitos Beach 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

Different business models thrive in different micro-locations.
Where you open matters more than anything else.
Across every business type we've analyzed, location quality as measured by Survivability Score is the strongest predictor of financial performance.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

Where the next great business in Alamitos Beach should go

The top businesses to open next in Alamitos Beach:

African Restaurants — ~85% average survival rate, up to ~86% at best locations
Japanese / Sushi Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate
Taiwanese Restaurants — ~83% average survival rate

These rankings are based on the latest available data; check StreetSpring for real-time updates. StreetSpring's accuracy is built on studying businesses that serve more than 180 million+ Americans across 24 cities. A 9.7% vacancy rate in Alamitos Beach reflects the current commercial environment; StreetSpring weights this directly in every survivability score for addresses in this neighborhood. StreetSpring refreshes survivability scores every week to reflect new competition and updated spending data — see which locations in Alamitos Beach are available right now and how they rank.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

What type of business should you rent your Alamitos Beach storefront to?

According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, the strongest tenant types for a storefront in Alamitos Beach are African Restaurants, Japanese / Sushi Restaurants, and Taiwanese Restaurants.

Where you open matters more than anything else.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront. StreetSpring's free tool lets you check the survivability score for any business type at any address in Alamitos Beach — a powerful filter when evaluating prospective tenants.

Should you rent your Alamitos Beach storefront to an African Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, an African Restaurant leads all business categories for Alamitos Beach landlords — ~86% at the best addresses and ~83% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

What should I consider when opening a business in Alamitos Beach?

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

The most important driver of a high Survivability Score is the Revenue Capture Score for the business at the location it selects.
StreetSpring's in-house models are continuously updated with new business outcome data to keep predictions accurate.
The most current survivability data for Alamitos Beach 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 Los Angeles 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
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.
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.
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.

Full dataset for Los Angeles: /resources/data/los-angeles-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 Alamitos Beach, Los Angeles — Top business types scored in Alamitos Beach, Los Angeles — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

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

How we measure this: Most retail competition operates within a 500-meter radius — outside that, behavioral economics show customers don't routinely switch.

**Alamitos Beach at a glance.** Alamitos Beach is a coastal neighborhood in the southern portion of the city of Long Beach, California. Although it was in unincorporated Los Angeles County when annexed by the City of Long Beach, it had been planned as its own community with a townsite. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamitos_Beach%2C_Long_Beach%2C_California))

**Three local anchors for Alamitos Beach:** **5.9%** neighborhood unemployment (above the 24-metro median, ACS), **$1,127/week** average wage in the Los Angeles area (below our metro median, BLS QCEW), and **22,446** new residential units permitted in Los Angeles County in 2025 (Census BPS). These three together describe the demand-and-labor environment any new Alamitos Beach business operates within.

**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 Context FAQ

Additional questions with answers drawn directly from local data sources.

What is the median household income in Alamitos Beach?

Alamitos Beach's median household income (~~$91K) is below the Los Angeles metro median (~~$113K) by approximately $22K. Lower median income tends to favor value-oriented retail, fast-casual food, and necessity-driven services.

What's the national survival baseline for businesses by sector?

Per BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025), 5-year survival rates by sector range from 47.8% (Active Life — gyms, studios) to 61.8% (Health & Medical), with Restaurants at 50% and Retail at 47.9%. Los Angeles-specific factors layer on top of these national baselines.

Are storefronts and homes filling up or sitting empty in Alamitos Beach?

Approximately 10% of Alamitos Beach housing units are vacant — above the Los Angeles metro median (5%). Elevated vacancy can mean softening demand or short-term opportunity to negotiate rent — verify against commercial-corridor activity before committing.

How does Alamitos Beach's employment rate affect business survivability?

Roughly 94% of Alamitos Beach's working-age population is employed, against a Los Angeles metro median of 93%. Employment is close to the metro median, suggesting stable underlying demand.