Business Survivability in Clearview, Philadelphia

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Clearview is a Chiropractor Office with a 85.5% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

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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 Clearview (85.5% average survival rate, 89.6% at best locations)
  • Neighborhood rank: #30 of 127 neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia
  • Neighborhood average: 69.6% 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

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Summary

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Clearview is a Chiropractor Office with a 85.5% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 89.6% chance; next is an Acupuncture Clinic with a 80.4% chance, followed by a Dermatology Clinic with a 80.4% chance. At a good address, Chiropractor Office is tied with Acupuncture Clinic and Dermatology Clinic; the published file ranks it first on its average.


Is Clearview a good place to start a business?

Among the 127 neighborhoods StreetSpring ranks in and around Philadelphia, Clearview ranks #30 for business survivability, with an average 69.6% chance of lasting two or more years.

  • For the top-ranked business type, the best addresses in Clearview score 4.1 points higher on the two-year chance than its average there.
  • Even so, the weakest addresses in Clearview for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
  • With a 88.6% employment rate, Clearview has the consumer spending foundation that supports a range of brick-and-mortar business types.

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 Clearview?

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Clearview that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. The map below highlights the highest-survivability address for a Chiropractor Office in Clearview:

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The highlighted area represents the address in Clearview that StreetSpring's 2026 analysis ranks highest for a Chiropractor Office survivability. Static rankings can't capture every recent change in competition or consumer spending; StreetSpring's live platform provides the current score for your exact address. StreetSpring's scoring incorporates hundreds of inputs, including competitive quality and density, projected consumer spending, Revenue Capture Score, and local demand patterns.

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What are the best businesses to open in Clearview?

#Business typeChance of lasting two or more years at a good address
1Chiropractor Office89.2%
2Acupuncture Clinic89.2%
3Dermatology Clinic89.2%
7Veterinary Clinic86.2%
8Eye Care Center84.9%
9Clothing Store84.6%
10Dance Club84.0%
11Day Care Center83.8%
12Bar83.6%
13Cafe83.6%

Ties at a good address: Chiropractor Office, Acupuncture Clinic and Dermatology Clinic are tied; Bar and Cafe 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 Clearview

  • #1 Chiropractor Office (Ranked #1): 85.5% average in Clearview. Best-case storefronts: 89.6%. Challenging locations: 68.8%.
  • #2 Acupuncture Clinic is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Clearview: 80.4% chance on average, best at 89.2%, challenging at 58.6%.
  • #3 Dermatology Clinic: 80.4% on average across Clearview; best at 89.2%, challenging at 59.0%.
  • #7 Opening a Veterinary Clinic in Clearview shows 77.2% average survivability. Top locations reach 88.3%; lower-end sites show 62.8%.
  • #8 Eye Care Center (Ranked #8): 72.7% average in Clearview. Best-case storefronts: 87.0%. Challenging locations: 56.4%.

Strong Performers in Clearview

  • #9 Clothing Store is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Clearview: 70.6% chance on average, best at 84.6%, challenging at 50.8%.
  • #10 Dance Club: 74.8% on average across Clearview; best at 85.1%, challenging at 53.6%.
  • #11 Opening a Day Care Center in Clearview shows 75.5% average survivability. Top locations reach 84.6%; lower-end sites show 57.2%.
  • #12 Bar (Ranked #12): 76.4% average in Clearview. Best-case storefronts: 83.6%. Challenging locations: 57.4%.
  • #13 Cafe is ranked #13 for top businesses to open in Clearview: 69.5% chance on average, best at 83.6%, challenging at 49.4%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally


How much money could a business in Clearview make?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in Clearview 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.
  • Location is one of the few things about a new business you can measure before it opens.
  • When the question is money, the Revenue Capture Score comes first: it is StreetSpring's estimate of the revenue a business can capture at a specific address.
  • 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 Clearview?

The top businesses to open next in Clearview:

  • Chiropractor Offices: 85.5% average survival rate, 89.6% at the best address
  • Acupuncture Clinics: 80.4% average survival rate
  • Dermatology Clinics: 80.4% average survival rate

Static rankings can't capture every recent change in competition or consumer spending; StreetSpring's live platform provides the current score for your exact address. StreetSpring measures competition through a 30-factor framework layered on top of proprietary consumer spending forecasts and mobility models. 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. StreetSpring's model accounts for Clearview's 88.6% employment rate when projecting survivability: businesses reliant on discretionary spend benefit disproportionately in well-employed neighborhoods. StreetSpring regularly refreshes survivability scores to reflect new competition and updated spending data: see which locations in Clearview are available right now and how they rank.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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


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

The analysis is clear: in Clearview, Chiropractor Offices, Acupuncture Clinics, and Dermatology Clinics consistently score highest on survivability, giving landlords the best chance of retaining tenants for two or more years.

  • Location is one of the few things about a new business you can measure before it opens.
  • StreetSpring scores blocks across each neighborhood and city so you can compare a business's two-year chance between them. StreetSpring can show you which specific address in your portfolio scores highest for each tenant type.

Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Philadelphia Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity


Should you rent your Clearview storefront to a Chiropractor Office?

According to our 2026 survivability model, a Chiropractor Office leads all business categories for Clearview landlords: 89.6% at the best addresses and 68.8% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

  • 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 Clearview?

Start any location decision in Clearview with the Survivability Score: it combines 100+ location factors into one projected two-year chance.

  • 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 in-house models are trained on 570,000+ real business outcomes.
  • Start with a free 10-minute trial: check the current survivability score for any Clearview address on StreetSpring.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.


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 Philadelphia are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Full dataset for Philadelphia: /resources/data/philadelphia-survivability-scores-2026.csv: includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.