This brief analysis examines the location of businesses in Pacific Beach, a residential neighborhood in San Diego with a very popular entertainment district.

The City of San Diego has over 50,000 businesses registered to pay the San Diego City business tax. It is difficult to imagine that the city has such a large number of businesses; even a city as diverse as San Diego can’t have that many restaurants, nail salons and tattoo parlors. With a little analysis, it quickly becomes apparent that most of these businesses are nearly invisible. They don’t have storefronts, and they are located in out-of-the-way places: the geography of business in San Diego has many surprises. In this analysis, we will look specifically at the beach neighborhood of San Diego.