Business Survivability in Sawtelle, Los Angeles
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Sawtelle is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.3% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.
Quick Summary
- Survivability Score: the projected chance a business type lasts two or more years at a specific address
- Best business: a Veterinary Clinic in Sawtelle (82.3% average survival rate, 90.0% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #18 of 173 neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles
- Neighborhood average: 73.3% two-year survival across the business types ranked here
- Coverage: This ranking carries one row per business type and neighborhood. Its score is the projected chance of lasting two or more years, averaged across the price points StreetSpring scores separately in the tool (most types have 5). The 10 business types here are base types; the tool offers 500+ business types, counting each type at each of its price points.
- Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data
- Detailed methodology
Last reviewed: October 2026 by Robert Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring
In this article:
- Summary
- Is Sawtelle 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 Sawtelle is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.3% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 90.0% chance; next is a Chiropractor Office with a 87.0% chance, followed by an Acupuncture Clinic with a 83.1% chance.
Is Sawtelle a good place to start a business?
In Los Angeles's survivability rankings, Sawtelle comes in at #18 of 173 neighborhoods, with an average Survivability Score of 73.3% across the business types ranked there.
- The gap between the best addresses and the average for the top-ranked business type in Sawtelle is 7.7 points on the two-year chance.
- Yet the same categories that score highest in Sawtelle can underperform significantly at the wrong address. Location precision within the neighborhood matters as much as choosing the neighborhood itself.
- A 92.9% employment rate in Sawtelle means a large share of local consumers have steady income: a strong underlying condition for discretionary spending businesses.
Employment and housing vacancy figures sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
How can you find the best location to open a business in Sawtelle?
Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Sawtelle that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. The location below represents the address in Sawtelle with the highest projected survivability for a Veterinary Clinic:
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of hundreds of location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Veterinary Clinic in Sawtelle. Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform, and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. Factors evaluated include competition at every distance band, consumer spending forecasts, mobility patterns, and market share projections.
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What are the best businesses to open in Sawtelle?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterinary Clinic | 90.0% |
| 2 | Chiropractor Office | 89.6% |
| 3 | Acupuncture Clinic | 89.6% |
| 4 | Dermatology Clinic | 89.6% |
| 8 | Eye Care Center | 89.2% |
| 9 | Clothing Store | 85.0% |
| 10 | Liquor Store | 84.9% |
| 14 | Cosmetics Shop | 84.6% |
| 22 | Tea Shop | 84.1% |
| 23 | Salad Shop | 84.1% |
Ties at a good address: Chiropractor Office, Acupuncture Clinic and Dermatology Clinic are tied; Tea Shop and Salad Shop are tied. A tie is a tie: the rank column is the published file's order, which looks at the average and the best address next.
The rank column is the published file's rank within this place; a skipped number is a business type the file ranks here that this list leaves out to keep any one business family from filling it.
Highest Survivability in Sawtelle
- #1 Veterinary Clinic is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Sawtelle: 82.3% chance on average, best at 90.0%, challenging at 61.5%.
- #2 Chiropractor Office: 87.0% on average across Sawtelle; best at 90.0%, challenging at 78.1%.
- #3 Opening an Acupuncture Clinic in Sawtelle shows 83.1% average survivability. Top locations reach 90.0%; lower-end sites show 64.1%.
- #4 Dermatology Clinic (Ranked #4): 83.1% average in Sawtelle. Best-case storefronts: 90.0%. Challenging locations: 64.1%.
- #8 Eye Care Center is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Sawtelle: 81.7% chance on average, best at 89.6%, challenging at 62.8%.
Strong Performers in Sawtelle
- #9 Clothing Store: 80.0% on average across Sawtelle; best at 85.0%, challenging at 68.8%.
- #10 Opening a Liquor Store in Sawtelle shows 80.1% average survivability. Top locations reach 85.0%; lower-end sites show 61.2%.
- #14 Cosmetics Shop (Ranked #14): 73.3% average in Sawtelle. Best-case storefronts: 85.0%. Challenging locations: 52.6%.
- #22 Tea Shop is ranked #22 for top businesses to open in Sawtelle: 74.9% chance on average, best at 85.0%, challenging at 55.3%.
- #23 Salad Shop: 74.0% on average across Sawtelle; best at 85.0%, challenging at 49.9%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Veterinary Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Acupuncture Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Sawtelle make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in Sawtelle starts with the Revenue Capture Score, the most important factor in choosing a location: StreetSpring's estimate of the revenue a business can capture at that address.
How StreetSpring calculates location value
- Different business models thrive in different micro-locations.
- Location is the part of a new business you can compare address by address before committing.
- StreetSpring's Revenue Capture Score, the revenue a business can capture at a specific address, is the factor that matters most when comparing locations.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually.
What businesses should open next in Sawtelle?
The top businesses to open next in Sawtelle:
- Veterinary Clinics: 82.3% average survival rate, 90.0% at the best address
- Chiropractor Offices: 87.0% average survival rate
- Acupuncture Clinics: 83.1% average survival rate
Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform, and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. Every prediction draws on a dataset of millions of business openings, closures, and lifecycle events across the U.S. StreetSpring scores 500+ business types: 153 base business types, most of them at 5 price points, which is 569 type-and-price combinations you can choose in the tool. Sawtelle's employment rate (92.9%) and housing vacancy rate (9.5%) are part of the Census context StreetSpring's model reads when it scores each business type at each address. These rankings are a snapshot; StreetSpring regularly recalculates survivability for every location in Sawtelle, incorporating the latest competitive openings, closures, and spending data: check current locations now.
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- Explore Veterinary Clinic survivability across Los Angeles neighborhoods
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Sawtelle.
What type of business should you rent your Sawtelle storefront to?
StreetSpring's analysis shows that the tenant types with the best odds of staying open and paying rent for two or more years in Sawtelle are Veterinary Clinics, Chiropractor Offices, and Acupuncture Clinics.
- Location is the part of a new business you can compare address by address before committing.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually. Landlords can use StreetSpring to match their exact address to the tenant types most likely to stay open and paying rent for two or more years.
Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Los Angeles Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Sawtelle storefront to a Veterinary Clinic?
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis strongly supports renting to a Veterinary Clinic in Sawtelle: best-in-class addresses achieve 90.0% survivability, and even the lower-end sites come in at 61.5%.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually.
What should I consider when opening a business in Sawtelle?
Before committing to any location in Sawtelle, the highest-priority metric to check is the Survivability Score: it encodes every relevant location factor into a single, actionable number.
- The single most important number in a location decision is the Revenue Capture Score, StreetSpring's proprietary estimate of the revenue a business can capture at a specific address.
- StreetSpring uses its own proprietary forecasting tools to identify the Revenue Capture Score for each unique business.
- You can check the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring, starting with a free 10-minute trial.
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Real estate professionals and business owners across 24 major metros use StreetSpring to ground their site-selection decisions in data, not guesswork. Aggregated survivability rankings for Los Angeles are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.
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.