Business Survivability in Woodley Park, Washington DC
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Woodley Park is a Chiropractor Office with a 85.3% 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 Chiropractor Office in Woodley Park (85.3% average survival rate, 89.6% at best locations)
- Neighborhood rank: #25 of 129 neighborhoods in and around Washington DC
- Neighborhood average: 75.5% 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 Woodley 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 Woodley Park is a Chiropractor Office with a 85.3% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a 89.6% chance; next is an Eye Care Center with a 81.6% chance, followed by a Dentist Office with a 81.7% chance. At a good address, Chiropractor Office is tied with Eye Care Center; the published file ranks it first on its average.
Is Woodley Park a good place to start a business?
StreetSpring ranks Woodley Park #25 of 129 neighborhoods in and around Washington DC, with an average Survivability Score of 75.5% across the business types ranked there.
- At its best addresses in Woodley Park, the top-ranked business type scores 4.3 points above its own average in the neighborhood.
- Yet even the strongest business types in Woodley Park see survivability scores drop significantly at the worst addresses. No business type is immune to the consequences of poor location selection within this neighborhood.
- Housing vacancy in Woodley Park sits at 4.8%, 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 Woodley Park?
Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Woodley Park that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. StreetSpring's 2026 model ranks this area #1 in Woodley Park for a Chiropractor Office:
StreetSpring's 2026 model identifies this area as the highest-survivability location for a Chiropractor Office in Woodley Park. These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. The model evaluates hundreds of factors, from primary and secondary competition to forecasted spend, site accessibility, and local market share potential.
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What are the best businesses to open in Woodley Park?
| # | Business type | Chance of lasting two or more years at a good address |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiropractor Office | 89.6% |
| 2 | Eye Care Center | 89.6% |
| 3 | Dentist Office | 88.7% |
| 4 | Physical Therapy Clinic | 88.3% |
| 8 | Dance Club | 85.1% |
| 9 | Convenience Store | 85.0% |
| 10 | Smoke Shop | 84.6% |
| 11 | Boutique | 84.6% |
| 12 | International Grocery Store | 84.6% |
| 23 | Tea Shop | 84.2% |
Ties at a good address: Chiropractor Office and Eye Care Center are tied; Smoke Shop, Boutique and International Grocery Store 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 Woodley Park
- #1 Chiropractor Office (Ranked #1): 85.3% average in Woodley Park. Best-case storefronts: 89.6%. Challenging locations: 70.0%.
- #2 Eye Care Center is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Woodley Park: 81.6% chance on average, best at 90.0%, challenging at 66.2%.
- #3 Dentist Office: 81.7% on average across Woodley Park; best at 89.6%, challenging at 62.0%.
- #4 Opening a Physical Therapy Clinic in Woodley Park shows 80.2% average survivability. Top locations reach 89.6%; lower-end sites show 62.8%.
- #8 Dance Club (Ranked #8): 77.7% average in Woodley Park. Best-case storefronts: 86.0%. Challenging locations: 64.0%.
Strong Performers in Woodley Park
- #9 Convenience Store is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in Woodley Park: 78.9% chance on average, best at 85.0%, challenging at 60.2%.
- #10 Smoke Shop: 79.4% on average across Woodley Park; best at 85.0%, challenging at 65.6%.
- #11 Opening a Boutique in Woodley Park shows 78.4% average survivability. Top locations reach 85.0%; lower-end sites show 63.8%.
- #12 International Grocery Store (Ranked #12): 78.1% average in Woodley Park. Best-case storefronts: 85.0%. Challenging locations: 62.0%.
- #23 Tea Shop is ranked #23 for top businesses to open in Woodley Park: 77.3% chance on average, best at 85.0%, challenging at 53.0%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
- Eye Care Center: See how this compares to other cities →
- Dentist Office: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Woodley Park make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, going with one of the top-scoring locations in the neighborhood rather than an average one in Woodley 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
- Different business models thrive in different micro-locations.
- 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.
- 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 Woodley Park?
The top businesses to open next in Woodley Park:
- Chiropractor Offices: 85.3% average survival rate, 89.6% at the best address
- Eye Care Centers: 81.6% average survival rate
- Dentist Offices: 81.7% average survival rate
These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. 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. Woodley Park sits at 98.1% employment and 4.8% housing vacancy in Census data, context the model reads alongside competition and consumer spending. Survivability scores are recalculated regularly as new competitors open and spending patterns shift: visit StreetSpring to see the current score for any open location in Woodley Park right now.
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- Explore Chiropractor Office survivability across Washington DC neighborhoods
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Woodley Park.
What type of business should you rent your Woodley Park storefront to?
Our 2026 survivability data for Woodley Park shows that Chiropractor Offices, Eye Care Centers, and Dentist Offices rank as the top tenant categories for minimizing vacancy risk.
- 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 Washington DC Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Woodley Park storefront to a Chiropractor Office?
According to our 2026 survivability model, a Chiropractor Office leads all business categories for Woodley Park landlords: 89.6% at the best addresses and 70.0% 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 Woodley Park?
In Woodley Park, the first step in your site-selection decision is checking the Survivability Score of the specific address you're evaluating.
- 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.
- No third-party scoring system produces these results: every prediction is generated by StreetSpring's own analytical models.
- The most current survivability data for Woodley Park 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 Washington DC are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.
Full dataset for Washington DC: /resources/data/washington-dc-survivability-scores-2026.csv: includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.