How much money could a business in Carroll Park make?

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

What are the best businesses to open in Carroll Park?

The top businesses to open in Carroll Park include Japanese / Sushi Restaurant with a ~83% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~85%, followed by Portuguese Restaurant and Brunch Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Carroll Park?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Carroll Park are Japanese / Sushi Restaurants, Portuguese Restaurants, and Brunch Restaurants.

Is Carroll Park a good place to start a business?

Carroll Park is ranked number 48 across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~77%. StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Carroll Park addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~2%.

Business Survivability in Carroll Park, Los Angeles

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Carroll Park is a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant with a ~83% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant in Carroll Park (~83% average survival rate, ~85% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #48 across all neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles

Neighborhood average: ~77% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring — May 13, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Carroll Park 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 Carroll Park is a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant with a ~83% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~85% chance; next is a Portuguese Restaurant with a ~83% chance, followed by a Brunch Restaurant with a ~83% chance.

How business-friendly is Carroll Park right now?

**Pattern match:** Carroll Park's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **North Miami (Miami)** and **Harris Chiles (Atlanta)**. The three share longer commutes, more renters, and higher employment, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Carroll Park.

**The pattern in Carroll Park.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Brunch Restaurant leads at **83% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **81-86%** (5-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Carroll Park and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Ukrainian Restaurants are already saturated here — 23 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

StreetSpring ranks Carroll Park #48 among all analyzed neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, with a neighborhood-wide average survivability of ~77%.

StreetSpring data shows the best-fit business types at prime Carroll Park addresses outperform the neighborhood average by as much as ~2%.
Yet the same categories that score highest in Carroll Park can underperform significantly at the wrong address. Location precision within the neighborhood matters as much as choosing the neighborhood itself.
Carroll Park's employment rate of 95.9% and commercial vacancy of 14.5% are two of the inputs StreetSpring's model uses to differentiate survivability within 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 Carroll Park?

StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in Carroll Park for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. The map below highlights the highest-survivability address for a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant in Carroll Park:

Reading visibility, frontage, and parking carefully

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According to our 2026 survivability dataset, this circle covers the highest-scoring locations for a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant in Carroll Park. Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. 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 kinds of businesses thrive in Carroll Park?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Carroll Park

Japanese / Sushi Restaurant — ~81%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~83% across Carroll Park.
Opening a Portuguese Restaurant in Carroll Park shows ~83% average survivability. Top locations reach ~85%; lower-end sites show ~81%.
Brunch Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~83% average in Carroll Park. Best-case storefronts: ~85%. Challenging locations: ~81%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Carroll Park: ~83% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~81%.
Taiwanese Restaurant — ~81%–~84% survivability range, with an average of ~82% across Carroll Park.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Carroll Park

Opening a Russian Restaurant in Carroll Park shows ~82% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~81%.
African Restaurant (Ranked #7): ~82% average in Carroll Park. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~80%.
Polish Restaurant is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Carroll Park: ~82% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~80%.
Pet Store — ~79%–~83% survivability range, with an average of ~81% across Carroll Park.
Opening a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant in Carroll Park shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Brunch Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

The revenue potential of a Carroll Park location

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting a storefront that StreetSpring ranks in the top tier for your business type in Carroll Park 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

The right address for one business type may be the wrong one for another — always evaluate fit for your specific concept.
A great product in the wrong location will underperform; an average product in the right location can thrive.
Choosing locations with superior Survivability Scores directly correlates with higher revenue potential.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types.

Where the next great business in Carroll Park should go

The top businesses to open next in Carroll Park:

Japanese / Sushi Restaurants — ~83% average survival rate, up to ~85% at best locations
Portuguese Restaurants — ~83% average survival rate
Brunch Restaurants — ~83% average survival rate

Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. The model draws from 100+ location-specific factors to generate each survivability score. The 14.5% commercial vacancy rate in Carroll Park means there is available space for new entrants — but it also signals that survivability depends heavily on choosing the right address within the neighborhood, not just the neighborhood itself. 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 Carroll Park right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

What type of business should you rent your Carroll Park storefront to?

StreetSpring's 2026 model places Japanese / Sushi Restaurants, Portuguese Restaurants, and Brunch Restaurants at the top of the survivability rankings for Carroll Park — making them the safest long-term tenant bets for landlords here.

A great product in the wrong location will underperform; an average product in the right location can thrive.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types. 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 Carroll Park storefront to a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, a Japanese / Sushi Restaurant leads all business categories for Carroll Park landlords — ~85% at the best addresses and ~81% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types.

What should I consider when opening a business in Carroll Park?

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

Revenue Capture Score is the single best indicator of whether a business will thrive at a location.
StreetSpring's forecasting tools are purpose-built for commercial location decisions and are not available through any publicly accessible data source.
No subscription required: access the current survivability score for any Carroll Park address through StreetSpring's free tool.

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 Los Angeles 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.
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.
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.

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

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

Treemap of Los Angeles business mix by survivability score — Treemap of business mix in Los Angeles — cell size = number of locations, color = average survivability score.

Radar chart of business-subtype survivability in Carroll Park, Los Angeles — Top business types scored in Carroll Park, Los Angeles — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

How we measure this: Foot traffic measured at the city-block level using a combination of pedestrian-network analysis and Walk Score.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Carroll Park:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **4.1%** (below the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Los Angeles metro's average weekly wage at **$1,127** (below our 24-metro median). And Los Angeles County permitted **22,446** 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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