Business Survivability in Olympic Hills, Seattle
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Olympic Hills is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.8% 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 Olympic Hills (82.8% Typical, 87.3% Best)
- Neighborhood rank: #84 of 94 neighborhoods in and around Seattle
- Neighborhood average: 65.7% 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: November 2026 by Robert Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring
In this article:
- Summary
- Is Olympic Hills 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 Olympic Hills is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.8% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, and 87.3% Best; next is a Chiropractor Office with 85.1% Best, followed by a Coffee Shop with 83.7% Best.
Is Olympic Hills a good place to start a business?
Among the 94 neighborhoods StreetSpring ranks in and around Seattle, Olympic Hills ranks #84 for business survivability, with an average 65.7% chance of lasting two or more years.
- For the top-ranked business type, 87.3% Best is 4.5 points above 82.8% Typical in Olympic Hills.
- But these same concepts at less optimal addresses within Olympic Hills can score meaningfully below average. Survivability data shows that even the highest-demand business types fail at the wrong location.
- The 5.5% housing vacancy rate in Olympic Hills comes from the Census American Community Survey and describes homes and apartments, not shops or offices.
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 Olympic Hills?
StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in Olympic Hills for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, this is the optimal address for a Veterinary Clinic in Olympic Hills:
According to StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, this circle outlines the best area for a Veterinary Clinic in Olympic Hills. Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes hundreds of 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 are the best businesses to open in Olympic Hills?
| Rank | Business type | Best | Typical | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterinary Clinic | 87.3% | 82.8% | 78.4% |
| 2 | Chiropractor Office | 85.1% | 79.3% | 73.4% |
| 3 | Coffee Shop | 83.7% | 76.7% | 72.2% |
| 4 | Spa | 82.1% | 75.4% | 70.5% |
| 5 | Dentist Office | 80.2% | 73.6% | 67.1% |
| 6 | Acupuncture Clinic | 80.1% | 73.6% | 67.2% |
| 10 | Pet Boarding Facility | 78.2% | 71.3% | 64.3% |
| 11 | Pet Store | 78.1% | 71.1% | 64.1% |
| 12 | Eye Care Center | 77.8% | 70.4% | 63.1% |
| 13 | Bar | 77.1% | 71.1% | 65.0% |
Best and Worst are the average results for the better and the worse of two addresses picked at random in the place: a weighted average of every scored location in which the best locations count the most for Best and the weakest count the most for Worst. Typical is the average address. Best is shown for a smaller space (half the standard size) and Worst for a larger one (half again as large), at the metro's median asking rent, using the same rent rule as our tool; Typical is at the market rent.
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 Olympic Hills
- #1 Veterinary Clinic (Ranked #1): 82.8% Typical in Olympic Hills. Best: 87.3%. Worst: 78.4%.
- #2 Chiropractor Office is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Olympic Hills: 79.3% Typical, 85.1% Best, 73.4% Worst.
- #3 Coffee Shop: 76.7% Typical across Olympic Hills; Best 83.7%, Worst 72.2%.
- #4 Opening a Spa in Olympic Hills shows 75.4% Typical survivability, 82.1% Best and 70.5% Worst.
- #5 Dentist Office (Ranked #5): 73.6% Typical in Olympic Hills. Best: 80.2%. Worst: 67.1%.
Strong Performers in Olympic Hills
- #6 Acupuncture Clinic is ranked #6 for top businesses to open in Olympic Hills: 73.6% Typical, 80.1% Best, 67.2% Worst.
- #10 Pet Boarding Facility: 71.3% Typical across Olympic Hills; Best 78.2%, Worst 64.3%.
- #11 Opening a Pet Store in Olympic Hills shows 71.1% Typical survivability, 78.1% Best and 64.1% Worst.
- #12 Eye Care Center (Ranked #12): 70.4% Typical in Olympic Hills. Best: 77.8%. Worst: 63.1%.
- #13 Bar is ranked #13 for top businesses to open in Olympic Hills: 71.1% Typical, 77.1% Best, 65.0% Worst.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Veterinary Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Coffee Shop: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Olympic Hills make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in Olympic Hills 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
- 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 is a decision you can measure before you sign.
- StreetSpring's Revenue Capture Score, the revenue a business can capture at a specific address, is the factor that matters most when comparing locations.
- StreetSpring scores blocks across each neighborhood and city so you can compare a business's two-year chance between them.
What businesses should open next in Olympic Hills?
The top businesses to open next in Olympic Hills:
- Veterinary Clinics: 82.8% Typical, 87.3% Best
- Chiropractor Offices: 79.3% Typical, 85.1% Best
- Coffee Shops: 76.7% Typical, 83.7% Best
Competition and spending patterns shift constantly; StreetSpring's live tool reflects the most current conditions for any specific address. StreetSpring's training dataset includes millions of transactions and business lifecycle events. 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. Olympic Hills's employment rate (96.1%) and housing vacancy rate (5.5%) are part of the Census context StreetSpring's model reads when it scores each business type at each address. StreetSpring regularly updates survivability scores for available locations: check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Olympic Hills are currently available and how they score.
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- See the Seattle Business Survivability Rankings
- See the Seattle Neighborhood Survivability Rankings
- Explore Veterinary Clinic survivability across Seattle neighborhoods
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Olympic Hills.
What type of business should you rent your Olympic Hills storefront to?
Our 2026 survivability data for Olympic Hills shows that Veterinary Clinics, Chiropractor Offices, and Coffee Shops rank as the top tenant categories for minimizing vacancy risk.
- Where you open is a decision you can measure before you sign.
- StreetSpring scores blocks across each neighborhood and city so you can compare a business's two-year chance between them. 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 Seattle Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Olympic Hills storefront to a Veterinary Clinic?
Yes. Among all business types analyzed for Olympic Hills in 2026, a Veterinary Clinic ranks first, at 87.3% Best and 78.4% Worst, making it the most reliable tenant choice here.
- StreetSpring scores blocks across each neighborhood and city so you can compare a business's two-year chance between them.
What should I consider when opening a business in Olympic Hills?
Before committing to any location in Olympic Hills, 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.
- Every survivability score is produced by StreetSpring's private prediction engine, not available through any other platform.
- Start with a free 10-minute trial: check the current survivability score for any Olympic Hills address on StreetSpring.
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StreetSpring analyzes millions of data points with AI to forecast business survivability. Aggregated survivability rankings for Seattle are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.
Full dataset for Seattle: /resources/data/seattle-survivability-scores-2026.csv: includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.