What businesses are most in demand in Sunrise?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Sunrise are Sri Lankan Restaurants, Brazilian Restaurants, and Scandinavian Restaurants.

How much money could a business in Sunrise make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Sunrise could lead to making ~3% more than selecting an average location, and ~5% more than one of the worst locations.

What are the best businesses to open in Sunrise?

The top businesses to open in Sunrise include Sri Lankan Restaurant with a ~84% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~86%, followed by Brazilian Restaurant and Scandinavian Restaurant.

Business Survivability in Sunrise, Los Angeles

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Sunrise is a Sri Lankan Restaurant with a ~84% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•16 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Sri Lankan Restaurant in Sunrise (~84% average survival rate, ~86% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #76 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

Reviewed: May 10, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder

In this article:

Summary
Is Sunrise 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 Sunrise is a Sri Lankan Restaurant with a ~84% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~86% chance; next is a Brazilian Restaurant with a ~84% chance, followed by a Scandinavian Restaurant with a ~84% chance.

Is Sunrise a good place to start a business?

**Comparable neighborhoods:** Among the ~2,500 neighborhoods StreetSpring scores, Sunrise's profile most resembles **Willmore City (Los Angeles)** and **Callahan (Orlando)**. All three exhibit more renters, low high-earner share, and lower-income — operators with experience in any of those neighborhoods will see familiar patterns in Sunrise.

**Failure-mode analysis for Sunrise.** The single strongest subtype in our data is **Scandinavian Restaurant** at 84% average survivability. But the within-neighborhood spread for Scandinavian Restaurants runs **78% to 89%** — meaning a poorly-sited Scandinavian Restaurant in Sunrise can score 11 points below a well-sited one. Saturation reality check: Gyms are the most-competed tracked subtype here, with 26 existing competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Sunrise earns the #76 spot in Los Angeles for new business survivability, with an average score of ~76% across all business types analyzed.

The survivability gap between the best and average addresses in Sunrise reaches ~3% for the strongest-performing business categories.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Sunrise for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
The 11.0% commercial vacancy rate in Sunrise is a leading indicator of the neighborhood's business health; StreetSpring factors this directly into each business type's survivability score.

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 Sunrise?

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Sunrise that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. The map below shows the highest-scoring storefront area for a Sri Lankan Restaurant in Sunrise per 2026 data:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of 100 location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Sri Lankan Restaurant in Sunrise. For the most current predictions, visit StreetSpring to analyze your specific location in real-time. Factors evaluated include competition at every distance band, consumer spending forecasts, mobility patterns, and market share projections.

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The strongest business categories for Sunrise

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Sunrise

Sri Lankan Restaurant — ~83%–~86% survivability range, with an average of ~84% across Sunrise.
Opening a Brazilian Restaurant in Sunrise shows ~84% average survivability. Top locations reach ~86%; lower-end sites show ~82%.
Scandinavian Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~84% average in Sunrise. Best-case storefronts: ~85%. Challenging locations: ~82%.
Pet Grooming Shop is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Sunrise: ~84% chance on average, best at ~86%, challenging at ~81%.
French Restaurant — ~82%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~84% across Sunrise.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Sunrise

Opening a Dance Club in Sunrise shows ~83% average survivability. Top locations reach ~85%; lower-end sites show ~81%.
Day Care Center (Ranked #7): ~83% average in Sunrise. Best-case storefronts: ~86%. Challenging locations: ~80%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Sunrise: ~83% chance on average, best at ~85%, challenging at ~81%.
Music Store — ~80%–~85% survivability range, with an average of ~83% across Sunrise.
Opening a Singaporean Restaurant in Sunrise shows ~83% average survivability. Top locations reach ~85%; lower-end sites show ~81%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

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What you could earn opening a business in Sunrise

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in Sunrise could lead to you making ~3% more than if you selected an average location, and ~5% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

Site selection requires evaluating the specific combination of your business type and the exact address — neighborhood-level data is only the starting point.
Where you open matters more than anything else.
Survivability Score is not just a survival metric — it's a revenue predictor, and the higher the score, the stronger the long-term financial outlook.
StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location.

Where the next great business in Sunrise should go

The top businesses to open next in Sunrise:

Sri Lankan Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate, up to ~86% at best locations
Brazilian Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate
Scandinavian Restaurants — ~84% average survival rate

For the most current predictions, visit StreetSpring to analyze your specific location in real-time. We have been studying the businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans. The 93.4% employment rate in Sunrise is a key signal of consumer health; when combined with the 11.0% vacancy rate, it produces a competitive landscape that favors the business types ranked above. StreetSpring updates survivability scores for available locations weekly — check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Sunrise are currently available and how they score.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

StreetSpring's 2026 model places Sri Lankan Restaurants, Brazilian Restaurants, and Scandinavian Restaurants at the top of the survivability rankings for Sunrise — making them the safest long-term tenant bets for landlords here.

Where you open matters more than anything else.
StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location. 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 Sunrise storefront to a Sri Lankan Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, a Sri Lankan Restaurant leads all business categories for Sunrise landlords — ~86% at the best addresses and ~83% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location.

What should I consider when opening a business in Sunrise?

The Survivability Score for your specific address in Sunrise 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.
StreetSpring's proprietary algorithms power these predictions.
You can access the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring for free.

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.

The hidden costs of operating in this neighborhood

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
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.
Permitted hours	Late-night or early-morning ops blocked by zoning, neighborhood association, or shared-wall restrictions.	Confirm the permitted hours-of-operation are in your lease AND in the local code. Pull recent variances or complaints from the zoning portal.
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

**Sunrise economic snapshot:** ACS reports neighborhood unemployment at **6.6%** (above the 24-metro neighborhood median we track). The Los Angeles metro's BLS QCEW average weekly wage is **$1,127** (below our metro median), and the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey logged **22,446** new residential permits in Los Angeles County in 2025 — useful triangulation for population-growth and labor-cost assumptions in this neighborhood.

**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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Local Context FAQ

More questions answered with neighborhood-specific data from our 2026 corpus.

What is the median household income in Sunrise?

ACS data shows median household income in Sunrise at roughly $69K, compared to $113K across the Los Angeles metro. Lower median income tends to favor value-oriented retail, fast-casual food, and necessity-driven services.

How does Sunrise's vacancy rate affect commercial demand?

Sunrise's housing vacancy rate is roughly 11%, compared to 5% across the Los Angeles metro. Elevated vacancy can mean softening demand or short-term opportunity to negotiate rent — verify against commercial-corridor activity before committing.

What does household composition look like in Sunrise?

Sunrise's average household has 3.1 people — above the Los Angeles metro average (2.7). Larger households suggest more families — favorable for family dining, kid-oriented retail, and household services.

How big is the Sunrise market in terms of resident population?

ACS data estimates the Sunrise resident population at roughly 3.3K. A smaller resident base means destination-pull or commuter capture matters more than walk-in traffic alone.