Business Survivability in Highland Park, Seattle
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Highland Park is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.3% 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 Highland Park (82.3% average survival rate, 89.6% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #72 of 94 neighborhoods in and around Seattle
- Neighborhood average: 72.5% 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 Highland Park 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 Highland Park is a Veterinary Clinic with a 82.3% 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 83.0% chance, followed by a Psychiatry or Psychology Practice with a 82.6% chance.
Is Highland Park a good place to start a business?
Highland Park is ranked number 72 of 94 neighborhoods in and around Seattle to start a business, with an average 72.5% chance of lasting two or more years across the business types ranked there.
- The gap between the best addresses and the average for the top-ranked business type in Highland Park is 7.3 points on the two-year chance.
- Yet the same categories that score highest in Highland Park can underperform significantly at the wrong address. Location precision within the neighborhood matters as much as choosing the neighborhood itself.
- Housing vacancy in Highland Park sits at 6.9%, a Census figure that StreetSpring's model reads for every business type it scores here.
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 Highland Park?
Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Highland Park that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. Of all available storefronts analyzed in Highland Park, StreetSpring ranks this area highest for a Veterinary Clinic in 2026:
This map shows the optimal location for a Veterinary Clinic in Highland Park based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis. Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point: the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. 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 Highland Park?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterinary Clinic | 89.2% |
| 2 | Acupuncture Clinic | 88.3% |
| 3 | Mental Health Clinic | 88.3% |
| 4 | Physical Therapy Clinic | 87.9% |
| 6 | Eye Care Center | 85.8% |
| 9 | Convenience Store | 84.1% |
| 10 | Chicken Shop | 83.9% |
| 11 | Seafood Restaurant | 83.3% |
| 12 | Pizza Restaurant | 83.2% |
| 13 | Spa | 83.1% |
Ties at a good address: Acupuncture Clinic and Mental Health Clinic 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 Highland Park
- #1 Veterinary Clinic is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in Highland Park: 82.3% chance on average, best at 89.6%, challenging at 67.0%.
- #2 Acupuncture Clinic: 83.0% on average across Highland Park; best at 89.2%, challenging at 63.2%.
- #3 Opening a Psychiatry or Psychology Practice in Highland Park shows 82.6% average survivability. Top locations reach 89.2%; lower-end sites show 63.6%.
- #4 Physical Therapy Clinic (Ranked #4): 82.7% average in Highland Park. Best-case storefronts: 88.7%. Challenging locations: 63.2%.
- #6 Eye Care Center is ranked #6 for top businesses to open in Highland Park: 77.3% chance on average, best at 89.2%, challenging at 57.3%.
Strong Performers in Highland Park
- #9 Convenience Store: 73.4% on average across Highland Park; best at 84.6%, challenging at 52.2%.
- #10 Opening a Chicken Shop in Highland Park shows 77.3% average survivability. Top locations reach 84.6%; lower-end sites show 57.1%.
- #11 Seafood Restaurant (Ranked #11): 78.5% average in Highland Park. Best-case storefronts: 84.0%. Challenging locations: 54.3%.
- #12 Pizza Restaurant is ranked #12 for top businesses to open in Highland Park: 78.2% chance on average, best at 83.6%, challenging at 56.1%.
- #13 Spa: 78.0% on average across Highland Park; best at 84.0%, challenging at 62.8%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Veterinary Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Acupuncture Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Mental Health Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Highland Park make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in Highland Park 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
- The right address for one business type may be the wrong one for another: always evaluate fit for your specific concept.
- Every site-selection decision starts with location, the one factor you can check before you sign a lease.
- 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 survivability down to the exact storefront location.
What businesses should open next in Highland Park?
The top businesses to open next in Highland Park:
- Veterinary Clinics: 82.3% average survival rate, 89.6% at the best address
- Acupuncture Clinics: 83.0% average survival rate
- Mental Health Clinics: 82.6% average survival rate
Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point: the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. 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. Highland Park's employment rate (96.7%) and housing vacancy rate (6.9%) are part of the Census context StreetSpring's model reads when it scores each business type at each address. StreetSpring regularly refreshes survivability scores to reflect new competition and updated spending data: see which locations in Highland Park 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 Highland Park.
What type of business should you rent your Highland Park storefront to?
Our 2026 survivability data for Highland Park shows that Veterinary Clinics, Acupuncture Clinics, and Mental Health Clinics rank as the top tenant categories for minimizing vacancy risk.
- Every site-selection decision starts with location, the one factor you can check before you sign a lease.
- StreetSpring scores survivability down to the exact storefront location. StreetSpring allows property owners to evaluate any address against 500+ business types, so you can prioritize the categories that score highest at your specific location.
Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Seattle Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Highland Park storefront to a Veterinary Clinic?
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, a Veterinary Clinic ranks as the top tenant type for your Highland Park storefront: best-case locations show a 89.6% survival rate, while the most challenging addresses drop to 67.0%.
- StreetSpring scores survivability down to the exact storefront location.
What should I consider when opening a business in Highland Park?
When selecting a location in Highland Park it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.
- Revenue Capture Score is the top factor to weigh before signing a lease, because it measures how much of the local customer spending a business at that address can win.
- StreetSpring's proprietary algorithms power these predictions.
- StreetSpring's live scoring tool starts with a free 10-minute trial: enter any address in Highland Park to see its current Survivability Score for your business type.
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StreetSpring's AI platform has analyzed thousands of business openings to identify success patterns. 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.