Business Survivability in Roxbury, Boston
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Roxbury is a Chiropractor Office with a 78.8% 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 Chiropractor Office in Roxbury (78.8% average survival rate, 90.0% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #44 of 52 neighborhoods in and around Boston
- Neighborhood average: 60.5% 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 Roxbury 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 Roxbury is a Chiropractor Office with a 78.8% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 90.0% chance; next is a Convenience Store with a 76.9% chance, followed by a Clothing Store with a 74.6% chance.
Is Roxbury a good place to start a business?
Roxbury is ranked number 44 of 52 neighborhoods in and around Boston to start a business, with an average 60.5% chance of lasting two or more years across the business types ranked there.
- At its best addresses in Roxbury, the top-ranked business type scores 11.2 points above its own average in the neighborhood.
- But at poorly chosen addresses within Roxbury, even the top-ranked business types can fall well below the neighborhood average. Location selection remains critical: a promising concept at the wrong spot still carries significant risk.
- With 90.8% of the local population employed, Roxbury presents a stable consumer base: particularly for food, beverage, and service businesses that depend on repeat discretionary spending.
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 Roxbury?
StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in Roxbury for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. The location below represents the address in Roxbury with the highest projected survivability for a Chiropractor Office:
This map shows the optimal location for a Chiropractor Office in Roxbury based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis. Market conditions, new competitors, and local spending patterns can change rapidly: always verify with StreetSpring's live tool before signing a lease. The prediction model incorporates hundreds of location-specific factors, including competitive density, forecasted consumer spending, mobility patterns, and Revenue Capture Score.
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What are the best businesses to open in Roxbury?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiropractor Office | 89.6% |
| 2 | Convenience Store | 84.6% |
| 3 | Clothing Store | 84.6% |
| 4 | Eye Care Center | 84.5% |
| 5 | Cafe | 84.0% |
| 7 | Hair Salon | 83.6% |
| 8 | Dentist Office | 83.2% |
| 9 | Bar | 83.1% |
| 10 | Coffee Shop | 83.1% |
| 11 | Irish Pub | 82.0% |
Ties at a good address: Convenience Store and Clothing Store are tied; Bar and Coffee 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 Roxbury
- #1 Chiropractor Office is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Roxbury: 78.8% chance on average, best at 90.0%, challenging at 58.6%.
- #2 Convenience Store: 76.9% on average across Roxbury; best at 85.0%, challenging at 49.9%.
- #3 Opening a Clothing Store in Roxbury shows 74.6% average survivability. Top locations reach 85.0%; lower-end sites show 49.4%.
- #4 Eye Care Center (Ranked #4): 68.5% average in Roxbury. Best-case storefronts: 89.6%. Challenging locations: 56.0%.
- #5 Cafe is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in Roxbury: 75.2% chance on average, best at 84.0%, challenging at 48.4%.
Strong Performers in Roxbury
- #7 Hair Salon: 69.6% on average across Roxbury; best at 84.0%, challenging at 48.9%.
- #8 Opening a Dentist Office in Roxbury shows 70.2% average survivability. Top locations reach 89.2%; lower-end sites show 56.0%.
- #9 Bar (Ranked #9): 70.9% average in Roxbury. Best-case storefronts: 84.0%. Challenging locations: 50.7%.
- #10 Coffee Shop is ranked #10 for top businesses to open in Roxbury: 62.6% chance on average, best at 84.0%, challenging at 48.0%.
- #11 Irish Pub: 68.8% on average across Roxbury; best at 84.0%, challenging at 48.0%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Convenience Store: See how this compares to other cities →
- Clothing Store: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Roxbury make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, following the survivability data rather than relying on intuition or foot traffic estimates in Roxbury 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
- No two business types have identical location needs; survivability scores reflect these differences at the address level.
- Survivability data lets you compare locations on the same projected two-year chance before you open.
- 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 provides address-specific survivability predictions for 500+ business types.
What businesses should open next in Roxbury?
The top businesses to open next in Roxbury:
- Chiropractor Offices: 78.8% average survival rate, 90.0% at the best address
- Convenience Stores: 76.9% average survival rate
- Clothing Stores: 74.6% average survival rate
Market conditions, new competitors, and local spending patterns can change rapidly: always verify with StreetSpring's live tool before signing a lease. 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. The 90.8% employment rate in Roxbury is a key signal of consumer health, and the 6.1% housing vacancy rate is another Census characteristic the model reads for the rankings above. These rankings are a snapshot; StreetSpring regularly recalculates survivability for every location in Roxbury, incorporating the latest competitive openings, closures, and spending data: check current locations now.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Roxbury.
What type of business should you rent your Roxbury storefront to?
StreetSpring's analysis shows that the business categories with the strongest long-term lease retention in Roxbury are Chiropractor Offices, Convenience Stores, and Clothing Stores.
- Survivability data lets you compare locations on the same projected two-year chance before you open.
- StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for 500+ business types. StreetSpring's tool, free for a 10-minute trial, lets you check the survivability score for any business type at any address in Roxbury: a powerful filter when evaluating prospective tenants.
Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Boston Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Roxbury storefront to a Chiropractor Office?
Yes, StreetSpring's analysis finds that a Chiropractor Office would be the best type of business to rent your storefront to, with a potential 90.0% chance of lasting more than 2 years; however depending on your location, the chances could drop to a 58.6% chance.
- StreetSpring provides address-specific survivability predictions for 500+ business types.
What should I consider when opening a business in Roxbury?
When selecting a location in Roxbury it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.
- 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.
- These predictions are generated by StreetSpring's proprietary machine learning system, validated against hundreds of thousands of real business outcomes.
- StreetSpring offers a free 10-minute trial of its survivability scores: see how your shortlisted Roxbury addresses rank right now.
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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 Boston are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.
Full dataset for Boston: /resources/data/boston-survivability-scores-2026.csv: includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.