What businesses are most in demand in Chatsworth?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Chatsworth are Portuguese Restaurants, Caribbean / Latin Restaurants, and South African Restaurants.

How much money could a business in Chatsworth make?

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

The top businesses to open in Chatsworth include Portuguese Restaurant with a ~86% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~88%, followed by Caribbean / Latin Restaurant and South African Restaurant.

Is Chatsworth a good place to start a business?

Chatsworth is ranked number 7 across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~79%. Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Chatsworth show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.

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

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 Chatsworth maximize success.

Business Survivability in Chatsworth, Los Angeles

Q: Does Chatsworth's income profile support new business openings?

Chatsworth's median household income (~$133K) is above the Los Angeles metro median (~$113K) by approximately $20K. Higher median income supports premium retail, upscale dining, and discretionary services.

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Chatsworth is a Portuguese Restaurant with a ~86% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•16 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Portuguese Restaurant in Chatsworth (~86% average survival rate, ~88% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #7 across all neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles

Neighborhood average: ~79% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Reviewed and updated: May 6, 2026 — Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Chatsworth 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 Chatsworth is a Portuguese Restaurant with a ~86% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~88% chance; next is a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant with a ~86% chance, followed by a South African Restaurant with a ~86% chance.

How business-friendly is Chatsworth right now?

**Pattern match:** Chatsworth's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Abington (Boston)** and **Perry Hall (Baltimore)**. The three share high high-earner share, low vacancy, and few anchor tenants, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Chatsworth.

**The pattern in Chatsworth.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, South African Restaurant leads at **86% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **72-95%** (23-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Chatsworth and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Gyms are already saturated here — 9 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

StreetSpring's analysis places Chatsworth at #7 in Los Angeles for new business survival odds, with a neighborhood-wide average of ~79%.

Top-performing business types at the best addresses in Chatsworth show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.
Yet the same categories that score highest in Chatsworth can underperform significantly at the wrong address. Location precision within the neighborhood matters as much as choosing the neighborhood itself.
StreetSpring's model incorporates Chatsworth's 3.7% 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.

How to choose a specific location in Chatsworth

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Chatsworth that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, this is the optimal address for a Portuguese Restaurant in Chatsworth:

Reading visibility, frontage, and parking carefully

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StreetSpring's 2026 model identifies this area as the highest-survivability location for a Portuguese Restaurant in Chatsworth. Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. The model evaluates 100 factors — from primary and secondary competition to forecasted spend, mobility flows, and local market share potential.

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What kinds of businesses thrive in Chatsworth?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Chatsworth

Portuguese Restaurant — ~84%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Chatsworth.
Opening a Caribbean / Latin Restaurant in Chatsworth shows ~86% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
South African Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~86% average in Chatsworth. Best-case storefronts: ~88%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Chatsworth: ~86% chance on average, best at ~88%, challenging at ~85%.
Pet Store — ~84%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Chatsworth.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Chatsworth

Opening a Pet Boarding Facility in Chatsworth shows ~86% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~84%.
Filipino Restaurant (Ranked #7): ~86% average in Chatsworth. Best-case storefronts: ~88%. Challenging locations: ~84%.
Diner is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Chatsworth: ~86% chance on average, best at ~88%, challenging at ~84%.
Singaporean Restaurant — ~85%–~88% survivability range, with an average of ~86% across Chatsworth.
Opening a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Chatsworth shows ~86% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~84%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Caribbean / Latin Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

What revenue can a Chatsworth business expect?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing an address that maximizes your Revenue Capture Score in Chatsworth 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

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.
Location is the single strongest predictor of whether a business thrives or fails.
StreetSpring's analysis shows that businesses in top-scoring locations generate meaningfully more revenue and stay open longer than those in average locations.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types.

The biggest opportunity gaps in Chatsworth

The top businesses to open next in Chatsworth:

Portuguese Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate, up to ~88% at best locations
Caribbean / Latin Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate
South African Restaurants — ~86% average survival rate

Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. StreetSpring has analyzed hundreds of thousands of business outcomes across major U.S. metros. Chatsworth sits at 94.7% employment and 3.7% commercial vacancy — conditions that set the ceiling and floor for Revenue Capture potential across all business types here. Because market conditions shift constantly, StreetSpring updates every location's survivability score weekly — you can see current scores for available storefronts in Chatsworth right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

If you own commercial space in Chatsworth, StreetSpring's 2026 data points to Portuguese Restaurants, Caribbean / Latin Restaurants, and South African Restaurants as the tenant types with the strongest projected longevity at this location.

Location is the single strongest predictor of whether a business thrives or fails.
StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for over 700 business types. StreetSpring can show you which specific address in your portfolio scores highest for each tenant type.

Should you rent your Chatsworth storefront to a Portuguese Restaurant?

StreetSpring's data confirms a Portuguese Restaurant as the highest-survivability tenant type for Chatsworth. The best addresses show a ~88% chance of lasting more than 2 years; less optimal addresses score around ~84%.

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

What should I consider when opening a business in Chatsworth?

Location decisions in Chatsworth should be grounded in Survivability Score data, not intuition. The score directly measures the competitive and spending conditions at your exact address.

Revenue Capture Score is what separates locations that look similar on the surface but produce dramatically different business outcomes.
These predictions are generated by StreetSpring's proprietary machine learning system, validated against hundreds of thousands of real business outcomes.
You can access the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring for free.

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

Permits, licensing, and zoning specifics worth flagging

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.
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.
Foot traffic seasonality	Looking at a peak-summer Tuesday and assuming year-round volume.	Walk the block at 3 different times across 2 different weeks. Ask neighboring tenants for their slow-season % drop.

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 Chatsworth, Los Angeles — Top business types scored in Chatsworth, 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: Foot traffic measured at the city-block level using a combination of pedestrian-network analysis and Walk Score.

**Chatsworth at a glance.** Chatsworth is a suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. The area around the town was home to American Indians, who left caves containing rock art. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth%2C_Los_Angeles))

**Daytime population context (Chatsworth):** Per US Census LEHD LODES, the median 1-mile workplace-jobs population within Chatsworth is **5,944** — about **0.1× the resident population**, which qualifies as a primarily-residential neighborhood with minimal daytime worker traffic. Retail-sector jobs in that radius: **463**. This shapes which business models have a natural demand floor here.

Landmark anchor: Valley Relics Museum sits in Chatsworth as a history-museum anchor — the kind of cultural draw that shapes weekend foot-traffic patterns nearby.

**Three local anchors for Chatsworth:** **5.3%** neighborhood unemployment (in line with 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 Chatsworth business operates within.

**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

Beyond the general FAQ — data-anchored answers for this specific location.

Does Chatsworth's poverty rate signal lower retail spending?

The poverty rate in Chatsworth is approximately 8%, compared to the Los Angeles metro median of 11%. The poverty rate tracks the metro median; business-type fit depends more on competition and demographic specifics.

What does the employment picture in Chatsworth look like for new businesses?

Roughly 95% of Chatsworth'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.

Does Chatsworth's income profile support new business openings?

Chatsworth's median household income (~~$133K) is above the Los Angeles metro median (~~$113K) by approximately $20K. Higher median income supports premium retail, upscale dining, and discretionary services.