City Survivability Rankings for Turkish Restaurant

Quick Summary

• Survivability Score: the projected chance a business type lasts two or more years at a specific address
• The highest-ranked city for Turkish Restaurant is Charlotte: 83.1% at a good address, 73.2% at a typical address
• 8 of 24 analyzed US metros average above 70% for Turkish Restaurant survivability at a typical address
• The lowest-ranked city is New York City at 76.3%
• National average chance of lasting two or more years for Turkish Restaurant: 67.8%
• Data reflects 2026 StreetSpring survivability analysis across 24 US metro areas · Full methodology →

Why this list differs from other "best cities for a turkish restaurant" lists. This ranking answers one question: at a good address in each metro, what is the projected chance a turkish restaurant is still operating two or more years after it opens. It is built from 570,000+ historical business outcomes and the location factors around each scored address. It does not rank cities by how much they like turkish restaurants, by downtown foot traffic, by cost of living, by population growth, or by how many turkish restaurants already trade there. Lists built on those things will name different cities, and they are answering a different question. If you want to know where the concept is fashionable, read those. If you want to know where a lease is most likely to still be paying for itself in two years, this is the ranking for that.

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Table of Contents

• Summary
• Top Cities for Turkish Restaurants
• Key Insights
• What Makes These Cities Stand Out?
• Related Resources
• How current is this ranking?
• Can a Turkish Restaurant succeed in cities not ranked in the top 10?
• What tools can help me choose the right city for a Turkish Restaurant?
• Which US city has the best survivability for Turkish Restaurants?

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Summary

According to StreetSpring's 2026 nationwide analysis, Charlotte ranks as the #1 city for opening a Turkish Restaurant in the United States, with an 83.1% chance of lasting two or more years at a good address. Following close behind are San Antonio with 83.1%, and Dallas with 83.1%. The 24-city analysis shows Turkish Restaurants performing at a 67.8% national average, with strong geographic concentration of top scores in a handful of metros. Location-level factors like visibility, foot traffic, and adjacent tenants can override city-level trends in either direction. The best way to use these rankings is as a starting point: layer in your own market research and local knowledge before committing.

Survivability ranges reflect best and worst storefront conditions within each city. See our full methodology →

Best-to-worst Turkish Restaurant survivability within individual metros: Charlotte, San Antonio, Detroit, Boston and New York City. Each box spans the middle of that metro's range; whiskers are its best and worst locations (2026).

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All 24 Cities Ranked for Turkish Restaurants

Based on StreetSpring's analysis of 24 major metropolitan areas, these cities offer the strongest prospects for Turkish Restaurants:

1. Charlotte Metro: Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

• At a good address: 83.1%
• At a typical address: 73.2%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

2. San Antonio Metro: San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

• At a good address: 83.1%
• At a typical address: 72.8%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.4%

3. Dallas Metro: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

• At a good address: 83.1%
• At a typical address: 72.5%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

4. Atlanta Metro: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

• At a good address: 83.1%
• At a typical address: 72.5%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

5. Orlando Metro: Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

• At a good address: 82.7%
• At a typical address: 71.8%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

6. Denver Metro: Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

• At a good address: 82.7%
• At a typical address: 71.3%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

7. Houston Metro: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

• At a good address: 82.7%
• At a typical address: 71.1%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

8. Chicago Metro: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

• At a good address: 82.7%
• At a typical address: 66.3%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

9. Minneapolis Metro: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

• At a good address: 81.8%
• At a typical address: 70.2%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

10. St. Louis Metro: St. Louis, MO-IL

• At a good address: 81.8%
• At a typical address: 69.6%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

11. Seattle Metro: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

• At a good address: 81.8%
• At a typical address: 69.1%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

12. Washington DC Metro: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

• At a good address: 81.3%
• At a typical address: 66.4%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

13. Detroit Metro: Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

• At a good address: 80.8%
• At a typical address: 68.3%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

14. Baltimore Metro: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

• At a good address: 80.8%
• At a typical address: 67.0%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

15. Los Angeles Metro: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

• At a good address: 80.4%
• At a typical address: 64.6%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

16. Miami Metro: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

• At a good address: 80.4%
• At a typical address: 64.5%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

17. Philadelphia Metro: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

• At a good address: 80.0%
• At a typical address: 66.3%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

18. San Diego Metro: San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

• At a good address: 80.0%
• At a typical address: 66.1%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

19. Phoenix Metro: Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

• At a good address: 80.0%
• At a typical address: 65.8%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

20. San Francisco Metro: San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

• At a good address: 80.0%
• At a typical address: 63.9%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

21. Portland Metro: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

• At a good address: 79.5%
• At a typical address: 64.3%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

22. Tampa Bay Metro: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

• At a good address: 79.0%
• At a typical address: 64.9%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

23. Boston Metro: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

• At a good address: 78.6%
• At a typical address: 63.9%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

24. New York City Metro: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

• At a good address: 76.3%
• At a typical address: 60.8%
• Best scored location: 84.0%
• Weakest scored location: 48.0%

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Key Insights

Moderate variation between cities: The difference between the #1 city (Charlotte at 83.1%) and the #24 city (New York City at 76.3%) is 6.80 percentage points. Turkish Restaurants show a difference of under a point between the top two metros. Treat this ranking as a starting filter, not a decision.

National average: Across all 24 analyzed cities, the average survivability for a Turkish Restaurant is 67.8%.

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What Makes These Cities Stand Out?

The top-ranked cities share several characteristics that favor Turkish Restaurants:

• Strong survivability signals: Charlotte leads with a 73% average chance of lasting two or more years for Turkish Restaurants: significantly above the national average for this business category.
• Competition density: The top cities show favorable competitor-to-opportunity ratios for Turkish Restaurants, meaning lower saturation and higher odds of capturing an underserved customer base.
• Low market saturation: Top cities for Turkish Restaurants have fewer direct competitors per square mile than lower-ranked metros, leaving meaningful whitespace for well-positioned new entrants.
• Economic conditions: The rankings for Turkish Restaurants account for Census neighborhood characteristics, including median household income and the housing vacancy rate, alongside competition and consumer spending.

StreetSpring publishes AI-driven survivability forecasts for agents and entrepreneurs nationwide, with the method and the files behind every figure. We incorporate data from thousands of neighborhoods and hundreds of thousands of individual businesses. StreetSpring generates these results using its proprietary prediction system, tailored to each business and location.

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Related Resources

City-specific guides: For detailed neighborhood-level analysis, explore our city guides:

• Business Survivability Rankings: Charlotte
• Business Survivability Rankings: San Antonio
• Business Survivability Rankings: Dallas
• Business Survivability Rankings: Atlanta
• Business Survivability Rankings: Orlando

National guides:

• National Neighborhood Survivability Rankings for Turkish Restaurants
• Neighborhood Survivability Rankings: Charlotte

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How current is this ranking?

Rankings are updated quarterly. The current data reflects StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, with the next full dataset refresh scheduled for Q3 2026. As market conditions shift across major metros, individual city scores can move meaningfully between updates: particularly for Turkish Restaurants, where local competition density and consumer spending patterns respond quickly to new entrants and neighborhood change. For the most current score at any specific address, use StreetSpring's live survivability tool rather than the static ranking above.

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Can a Turkish Restaurant succeed in cities not ranked in the top 10?

Yes, our top 10 ranking reflects cities with the strongest average conditions, but lower-ranked metros can still contain exceptional individual neighborhoods. Many operators successfully open Turkish Restaurants in cities that don't appear in our top 10. Turkish Restaurants in particular can find strong performance in secondary markets where the right demographic concentration, household income, and limited direct competition within walking distance align, even outside our highest-ranked cities. StreetSpring's neighborhood-level data surfaces these pockets of opportunity in every city we analyze, regardless of where the city as a whole ranks nationally.

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What tools can help me choose the right city for a Turkish Restaurant?

StreetSpring's Survivability Score tool provides address-level predictions for Turkish Restaurants across all 24 metros we track. For this category specifically, the model reads competition density, the consumer spending index for Turkish Restaurants, and Census neighborhood characteristics such as the housing vacancy rate, and turns them into the projected chance that a Turkish Restaurant lasts two or more years at a given address. You can check any specific address before signing a lease and compare multiple neighborhoods side by side to identify the highest-survivability site within your target city.

Try the Survivability Score tool →

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Which US city has the best survivability for Turkish Restaurants?

Charlotte ranks as the #1 city in the US for Turkish Restaurants survivability in StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, with an average 73% chance of lasting two or more years. This means that across well-selected neighborhoods in Charlotte, a Turkish Restaurant has approximately a 73% chance of still operating after two years, above the national average for this category. San Antonio ranks second, followed by Dallas. The full ranking reflects data across 24 major US metro areas: see the complete list above for all scores and neighborhood-level links.

Last reviewed: October 2026 by Robert Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

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Technical note: Aggregated national survivability rankings across all 24 metros are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

View national technical data

StreetSpring recalculates survivability using the latest competitive, demographic, and walkability data, so the live score may differ from the static ranges shown here.

Methodology: Each metro's figures pool the scored locations in its published neighborhoods. Metros are ranked the way the national data file ranks them, on the chance of lasting two or more years at a good address; the typical-address figure is shown alongside. Coverage includes 24 major US metropolitan areas: Charlotte, San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle, Washington DC, Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego, Phoenix, San Francisco, Portland, Tampa Bay, Boston, New York City. 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.