Business Survivability in Del Rey, Los Angeles
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Del Rey is a Chiropractor Office with a 82.0% 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 Del Rey (82.0% average survival rate, 90.0% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #78 of 173 neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles
- Neighborhood average: 67.8% 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 Del Rey 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 Del Rey is a Chiropractor Office with a 82.0% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 90.0% chance; next is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.9% chance, followed by an Eye Care Center with a 76.7% chance.
Is Del Rey a good place to start a business?
In Los Angeles's survivability rankings, Del Rey comes in at #78 of 173 neighborhoods, with an average Survivability Score of 67.8% across the business types ranked there.
- In Del Rey, the strongest addresses for the top-ranked business type sit 8.0 points above that type's average.
- Yet even the strongest business types in Del Rey see survivability scores drop significantly at the worst addresses. No business type is immune to the consequences of poor location selection within this neighborhood.
- Del Rey has a housing vacancy rate of 8.6% in Census data: the share of its homes and apartments standing empty, one of the neighborhood characteristics StreetSpring's model reads.
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 Del Rey?
Rather than relying on neighborhood averages, StreetSpring's scoring tells you which specific addresses in Del Rey give your concept the best odds of survival. The map below highlights the highest-survivability address for a Chiropractor Office in Del Rey:
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of hundreds of location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Chiropractor Office in Del Rey. 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 Del Rey?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiropractor Office | 90.0% |
| 2 | Veterinary Clinic | 89.6% |
| 3 | Eye Care Center | 87.9% |
| 4 | Acupuncture Clinic | 86.6% |
| 5 | Dermatology Clinic | 86.6% |
| 9 | Convenience Store | 84.7% |
| 10 | Laundromat | 84.0% |
| 11 | Coffee Shop | 84.0% |
| 12 | Hair Salon | 84.0% |
| 13 | Cafe | 83.9% |
Ties at a good address: Acupuncture Clinic and Dermatology Clinic are tied; Laundromat, Coffee Shop and Hair Salon 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 Del Rey
- #1 Chiropractor Office (Ranked #1): 82.0% average in Del Rey. Best-case storefronts: 90.0%. Challenging locations: 60.7%.
- #2 Veterinary Clinic is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Del Rey: 82.9% chance on average, best at 90.0%, challenging at 64.9%.
- #3 Eye Care Center: 76.7% on average across Del Rey; best at 89.6%, challenging at 59.4%.
- #4 Opening an Acupuncture Clinic in Del Rey shows 76.3% average survivability. Top locations reach 89.6%; lower-end sites show 58.6%.
- #5 Dermatology Clinic (Ranked #5): 76.3% average in Del Rey. Best-case storefronts: 89.6%. Challenging locations: 58.6%.
Strong Performers in Del Rey
- #9 Convenience Store is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Del Rey: 77.6% chance on average, best at 85.0%, challenging at 55.8%.
- #10 Laundromat: 74.8% on average across Del Rey; best at 84.0%, challenging at 50.7%.
- #11 Opening a Coffee Shop in Del Rey shows 74.5% average survivability. Top locations reach 84.0%; lower-end sites show 50.7%.
- #12 Hair Salon (Ranked #12): 73.9% average in Del Rey. Best-case storefronts: 84.0%. Challenging locations: 52.5%.
- #13 Cafe is ranked #13 for top businesses to open in Del Rey: 75.4% chance on average, best at 84.0%, challenging at 55.2%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Veterinary Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Eye Care Center: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Del Rey make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in Del Rey 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
- Every business type has unique location requirements that must be considered.
- Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make: it sets every other variable in motion.
- The Revenue Capture Score is the most important factor in choosing a location: it is StreetSpring's estimate of the revenue a business can capture at that address.
- StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood: it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.
What businesses should open next in Del Rey?
The top businesses to open next in Del Rey:
- Chiropractor Offices: 82.0% average survival rate, 90.0% at the best address
- Veterinary Clinics: 82.9% average survival rate
- Eye Care Centers: 76.7% average survival rate
Even the best-ranked neighborhoods contain locations that underperform, and the worst-ranked ones have hidden gems. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. 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. Del Rey's 94.7% employment rate and 8.6% housing vacancy rate are two of the Census characteristics the model reads when it ranks business types here. These rankings are a snapshot; StreetSpring regularly recalculates survivability for every location in Del Rey, 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 Del Rey.
What type of business should you rent your Del Rey storefront to?
StreetSpring's 2026 model places Chiropractor Offices, Veterinary Clinics, and Eye Care Centers at the top of the survivability rankings for Del Rey, making them the safest long-term tenant bets for landlords here.
- Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make: it sets every other variable in motion.
- StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood: it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category. With StreetSpring, you can rank every potential tenant type by survivability score at your property address before committing to a lease.
Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Los Angeles Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Del Rey storefront to a Chiropractor Office?
According to our 2026 survivability model, a Chiropractor Office leads all business categories for Del Rey landlords: 90.0% at the best addresses and 60.7% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.
- StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood: it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.
What should I consider when opening a business in Del Rey?
When selecting a location in Del Rey it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.
- StreetSpring's proprietary Revenue Capture Score, the revenue a business can capture at a specific address, is the factor that matters most when choosing where to open.
- StreetSpring's custom-built forecasting infrastructure powers every survivability score, combining data science with commercial real estate intelligence.
- StreetSpring offers a free 10-minute trial of its survivability scores: see how your shortlisted Del Rey addresses rank right now.
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Our analysis covers businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans across 24 major US metros. 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.