What businesses are most in demand in Bixby Knolls?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Bixby Knolls are Convenience Stores, Juice & Smoothie Bars, and Kosher Restaurants.

Is Bixby Knolls a good place to start a business?

Bixby Knolls is ranked number 123 across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~74%. Best-case locations for the top business types in Bixby Knolls produce survivability scores ~3% above the neighborhood-wide average.

What are the best businesses to open in Bixby Knolls?

The top businesses to open in Bixby Knolls include Convenience Store with a ~81% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~83%, followed by Juice & Smoothie Bar and Kosher Restaurant.

Business Survivability in Bixby Knolls, Los Angeles

Q: How does income in Bixby Knolls compare to the rest of Los Angeles?

Bixby Knolls's median household income (~$130K) is above the Los Angeles metro median (~$113K) by approximately $17K. Higher median income supports premium retail, upscale dining, and discretionary services.

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Bixby Knolls is a Convenience Store with a ~81% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Convenience Store in Bixby Knolls (~81% average survival rate, ~83% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #123 across all neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles

Neighborhood average: ~74% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

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

In this article:

Summary
Is Bixby Knolls 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 Bixby Knolls is a Convenience Store with a ~81% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~83% chance; next is a Juice & Smoothie Bar with a ~81% chance, followed by a Kosher Restaurant with a ~81% chance.

Is Bixby Knolls the right neighborhood for a new business?

**Comparable neighborhoods:** Among the ~2,500 neighborhoods StreetSpring scores, Bixby Knolls's profile most resembles **Bluff Park (Los Angeles)** and **Medford (Boston)**. All three exhibit older housing stock, less walkable commutes, and less transit-reliant — operators with experience in any of those neighborhoods will see familiar patterns in Bixby Knolls.

**Failure-mode analysis for Bixby Knolls.** The single strongest subtype in our data is **Juice & Smoothie Bar** at 81% average survivability. But the within-neighborhood spread for Juice & Smoothie Bars runs **71% to 87%** — meaning a poorly-sited Juice & Smoothie Bar in Bixby Knolls can score 16 points below a well-sited one. Saturation reality check: Kosher Restaurants are the most-competed tracked subtype here, with 17 existing competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Out of all neighborhoods analyzed in and around Los Angeles, Bixby Knolls ranks #123 for business survivability with a ~74% average Survivability Score.

Best-case locations for the top business types in Bixby Knolls produce survivability scores ~3% above the neighborhood-wide average.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Bixby Knolls for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
Commercial vacancy in Bixby Knolls sits at 0.9%, a figure that factors into survivability scores for every business type in this neighborhood.

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 Bixby Knolls?

StreetSpring's address-level analysis reveals which specific storefronts in Bixby Knolls offer the strongest survivability odds for your business type. According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, this is the optimal address for a Convenience Store in Bixby Knolls:

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 Convenience Store in Bixby Knolls. Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point — the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. 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 Bixby Knolls

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Bixby Knolls

Opening a Convenience Store in Bixby Knolls shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Juice & Smoothie Bar (Ranked #2): ~81% average in Bixby Knolls. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~79%.
Kosher Restaurant is ranked #3 for top businesses to open in Bixby Knolls: ~81% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~79%.
Ukrainian Restaurant — ~78%–~82% survivability range, with an average of ~80% across Bixby Knolls.
Opening an Italian Restaurant in Bixby Knolls shows ~80% average survivability. Top locations reach ~82%; lower-end sites show ~79%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Bixby Knolls

Indian Restaurant (Ranked #6): ~80% average in Bixby Knolls. Best-case storefronts: ~82%. Challenging locations: ~78%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #7 for top businesses to open in Bixby Knolls: ~80% chance on average, best at ~82%, challenging at ~78%.
Tattoo & Piercing Shop — ~77%–~82% survivability range, with an average of ~80% across Bixby Knolls.
Opening a Diner in Bixby Knolls shows ~79% average survivability. Top locations reach ~81%; lower-end sites show ~78%.
Brazilian Restaurant (Ranked #10): ~79% average in Bixby Knolls. Best-case storefronts: ~81%. Challenging locations: ~77%.

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How much money could a business in Bixby Knolls make?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, picking the highest-scoring storefront in the neighborhood in Bixby Knolls could lead to you making ~3% more than if you selected an average location, and ~6% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

However, each business concept should be evaluated for fit within each potential location.
The right location can make a business; the wrong one can break it.
Across every business type we've analyzed, location quality as measured by Survivability Score is the strongest predictor of financial performance.
StreetSpring can pinpoint which blocks in each neighborhood or city maximize a business's chances of success.

What businesses should open next in Bixby Knolls?

The top businesses to open next in Bixby Knolls:

Convenience Stores — ~81% average survival rate, up to ~83% at best locations
Juice & Smoothie Bars — ~81% average survival rate
Kosher Restaurants — ~81% average survival rate

Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point — the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. Our analysis covers every major metro in the country — 24 cities and 180 million++ consumers. Bixby Knolls's combination of 93.5% employment and 0.9% vacancy creates the conditions that define which business types thrive here and which struggle. StreetSpring refreshes survivability scores every week to reflect new competition and updated spending data — see which locations in Bixby Knolls 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 Bixby Knolls.

What type of business should you rent your Bixby Knolls storefront to?

StreetSpring's analysis shows that the categories most likely to produce stable, long-term tenants in Bixby Knolls are Convenience Stores, Juice & Smoothie Bars, and Kosher Restaurants.

The right location can make a business; the wrong one can break it.
StreetSpring can pinpoint which blocks in each neighborhood or city maximize a business's chances of success. StreetSpring allows property owners to evaluate any address against 700+ tenant types — so you can prioritize the categories that score highest at your specific location.

Should you rent your Bixby Knolls storefront to a Convenience Store?

The data shows a Convenience Store is the safest long-term bet for a Bixby Knolls storefront. Top locations reach ~83% survivability; the least favorable addresses in this neighborhood score around ~79%.

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 Bixby Knolls?

The Survivability Score for your specific address in Bixby Knolls is the most reliable signal you have before signing a lease — prioritize it above foot traffic estimates and demographic summaries.

Revenue Capture is where competition meets spending — and it's the number that matters most when choosing a location.
These predictions are generated by StreetSpring's proprietary machine learning system, validated against hundreds of thousands of real business outcomes.
The most current survivability data for Bixby Knolls is free to access on StreetSpring — no account required to check your specific address.

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

How seasonality plays out here

Factor	Where new owners get tripped up	Questions to ask before you sign
Outdoor seating / sidewalk use	Signing assuming you can add patio seating, then learning the city requires a separate sidewalk-cafe permit with long lead times.	Check the city's sidewalk-cafe permit process up front. Confirm landlord allows outdoor build-out in the lease language.
Anchor co-tenancy	Signing next to a high-traffic anchor that closes 6 months later, leaving you orphaned.	Ask for a co-tenancy clause — rent abatement or termination right if the anchor leaves. Standard for strong markets.
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 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 Bixby Knolls, Los Angeles — Top business types scored in Bixby Knolls, 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: Our gradient-boosted survivability model has 100+ input features. The waterfall shows the top 6-8 contributors to a final score.

**Daytime worker density (Bixby Knolls):** LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics show a **1.6:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** for Bixby Knolls — a balanced mixed-use pattern. Median workplace jobs within a 1-mile radius across Bixby Knolls: **12,133**, of which roughly **1,162** are retail-sector. Higher daytime ratios favor weekday-lunch / commuter-traffic businesses; balanced ratios favor residential + weekend demand patterns.

Landmark anchor: Historical Society Of Long Beach sits in Bixby Knolls as a history-museum anchor — the kind of cultural draw that shapes weekend foot-traffic patterns nearby.

**Local economic context (Bixby Knolls, Los Angeles):** Bixby Knolls's ACS unemployment rate is **6.5%** (above the 24-metro neighborhood median). County-level data adds two more anchors: BLS QCEW reports Los Angeles-area average weekly wage of **$1,127** (below our 24-metro median), and the Census Bureau Building Permits Survey logged **22,446** new residential units in Los Angeles County in 2025 — a rough proxy for the local growth environment a new business is opening into.

**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

Further questions, with answers anchored on this neighborhood's actual data.

Is Bixby Knolls more single-occupant or family-household?

ACS data puts average household size in Bixby Knolls at 2.7, compared to 2.7 across Los Angeles. Household composition is close to the metro average.

What is the median age in Bixby Knolls, and what does that mean for businesses?

ACS data puts Bixby Knolls's median age at 36, compared to the Los Angeles metro median of 39. That's younger by 3 years — The demographic profile is close to the metro average, so business-type fit is driven by other factors like income and competition.

What's the local customer base size in Bixby Knolls?

Approximately 7.6K people live in Bixby Knolls, which puts it in the lower-middle range among Los Angeles neighborhoods. The resident base is smaller than typical; survivability is highest for businesses that draw beyond the immediate neighborhood.

How does income in Bixby Knolls compare to the rest of Los Angeles?

Bixby Knolls's median household income (~~$130K) is above the Los Angeles metro median (~~$113K) by approximately $17K. Higher median income supports premium retail, upscale dining, and discretionary services.