Business Survivability in Maple Leaf, Seattle
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Maple Leaf is a Veterinary Clinic with a 84.6% 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 Maple Leaf (84.6% average survival rate, 90.0% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #35 of 94 neighborhoods in and around Seattle
- Neighborhood average: 72.9% 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 Maple Leaf 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 Maple Leaf is a Veterinary Clinic with a 84.6% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 90.0% chance; next is a Chiropractor Office with a 82.4% chance, followed by a Dentist Office with a 77.4% chance. At a good address, Veterinary Clinic is tied with Chiropractor Office; the published file ranks it first on its average.
Is Maple Leaf a good place to start a business?
In Seattle's survivability rankings, Maple Leaf comes in at #35 of 94 neighborhoods, with an average Survivability Score of 72.9% across the business types ranked there.
- For the top-ranked business type, the best addresses in Maple Leaf score 5.4 points higher on the two-year chance than its average there.
- Yet even the strongest business types in Maple Leaf see survivability scores drop significantly at the worst addresses. No business type is immune to the consequences of poor location selection within this neighborhood.
- With 96.2% of the local population employed, Maple Leaf 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 Maple Leaf?
StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in Maple Leaf for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. This is the address StreetSpring's 2026 analysis recommends most strongly for a Veterinary Clinic in Maple Leaf:
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of hundreds of location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Veterinary Clinic in Maple Leaf. However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. 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 Maple Leaf?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterinary Clinic | 89.6% |
| 2 | Chiropractor Office | 89.6% |
| 3 | Dentist Office | 88.7% |
| 4 | Acupuncture Clinic | 88.7% |
| 8 | Eye Care Center | 87.4% |
| 9 | Convenience Store | 84.6% |
| 10 | Dance Club | 84.6% |
| 11 | Salad Shop | 84.1% |
| 12 | Coffee Shop | 84.0% |
| 13 | Bar | 84.0% |
Ties at a good address: Veterinary Clinic and Chiropractor Office are tied; Dentist Office and Acupuncture Clinic are tied; Convenience Store and Dance Club are tied; Coffee Shop and Bar 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 Maple Leaf
- #1 Veterinary Clinic: 84.6% on average across Maple Leaf; best at 90.0%, challenging at 70.9%.
- #2 Opening a Chiropractor Office in Maple Leaf shows 82.4% average survivability. Top locations reach 90.0%; lower-end sites show 60.7%.
- #3 Dentist Office (Ranked #3): 77.4% average in Maple Leaf. Best-case storefronts: 89.6%. Challenging locations: 59.4%.
- #4 Acupuncture Clinic is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Maple Leaf: 76.9% chance on average, best at 89.6%, challenging at 59.0%.
- #8 Eye Care Center: 76.6% on average across Maple Leaf; best at 89.6%, challenging at 59.0%.
Strong Performers in Maple Leaf
- #9 Opening a Convenience Store in Maple Leaf shows 78.3% average survivability. Top locations reach 85.0%; lower-end sites show 57.6%.
- #10 Dance Club (Ranked #10): 74.9% average in Maple Leaf. Best-case storefronts: 86.0%. Challenging locations: 53.6%.
- #11 Salad Shop is ranked #11 for top businesses to open in Maple Leaf: 73.7% chance on average, best at 84.6%, challenging at 54.0%.
- #12 Coffee Shop: 80.1% on average across Maple Leaf; best at 84.0%, challenging at 71.8%.
- #13 Opening a Bar in Maple Leaf shows 79.3% average survivability. Top locations reach 84.0%; lower-end sites show 64.2%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Veterinary Clinic: See how this compares to other cities →
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Dentist Office: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Maple Leaf make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations for your business in Maple Leaf 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
- Location fit is business-type-specific: a spot that's ideal for a coffee shop may underperform for a nail salon at the same address.
- Location is one of the few things about a new business you can measure before it opens.
- StreetSpring's Revenue Capture Score, the revenue a business can capture at a specific address, is the factor that matters most when comparing locations.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually.
What businesses should open next in Maple Leaf?
The top businesses to open next in Maple Leaf:
- Veterinary Clinics: 84.6% average survival rate, 90.0% at the best address
- Chiropractor Offices: 82.4% average survival rate
- Dentist Offices: 77.4% average survival rate
However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. StreetSpring's accuracy is built on studying businesses that serve more than 180 million+ Americans across 24 cities. 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. Maple Leaf sits at 96.2% employment and 3.3% housing vacancy in Census data, context the model reads alongside competition and consumer spending. StreetSpring regularly updates survivability scores for available locations: check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Maple Leaf are currently available and how they score.
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Related Articles:
- 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 Maple Leaf.
What type of business should you rent your Maple Leaf storefront to?
The analysis is clear: in Maple Leaf, Veterinary Clinics, Chiropractor Offices, and Dentist Offices 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.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually. 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 Maple Leaf storefront to a Veterinary Clinic?
Yes, our 2026 model places a Veterinary Clinic at the top of the survivability rankings for Maple Leaf storefronts, with a best-case score of 90.0% and a floor of 70.9% at the most challenging addresses.
- Two storefronts on the same street can have different survivability scores: StreetSpring calculates each one individually.
What should I consider when opening a business in Maple Leaf?
StreetSpring's Survivability Score for your Maple Leaf address is the projected chance a business of your type is still operating two years from now: check it early.
- Revenue Capture Score comes first when comparing locations: it turns local competition and consumer spending into the share of revenue a business can expect to win.
- StreetSpring's in-house models are trained on 570,000+ real business outcomes.
- The most current survivability data for Maple Leaf is on StreetSpring, and a free 10-minute trial is enough to check your specific address.
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StreetSpring combines proprietary data with advanced analytics to predict which businesses will succeed. 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.