{"slug":"more-bars-or-grocers","topic":"Two things compared","query":"taverns_and_bars_minus_grocers","title":"More bars or grocers in Milwaukee neighborhoods","question":"Does your Milwaukee neighborhood have more bars or grocers?","answer":"Kilbourn Town has the widest lead of bars over grocers in the City of Milwaukee: 48 bars and 1 grocer.","finding":"Across the City we have 428 bars and 78 grocers on record. In 1 of the 24 neighborhoods we rank, grocers outnumber bars.","metric":"bars minus grocers","period":"As of November 3, 2026","source":{"title":"Little Milwaukee business records, from public licenses, filings and OpenStreetMap","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/records","license":"CC BY 4.0, with OpenStreetMap-derived records under ODbL","redistributable":true},"method":"We count the records in each category inside each neighborhood's boundary and subtract grocers from bars.","caveat":"These are the records we hold in each category, and we don't have a category for every record, so a true count can be higher. Treat a small gap as a tie.","columns":[{"key":"a","label":"bars"},{"key":"b","label":"grocers"}],"floor":"To be ranked, a neighborhood needs at least 5 of the two together. Neighborhoods under that are in the table with their numbers and the reason.","city":[{"rank":1,"slug":"kilbourn-town","name":"Kilbourn Town","value":47,"shown":"+47","extra":{"a":"48","b":"1"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"juneau-town","name":"Juneau Town","value":41,"shown":"+41","extra":{"a":"45","b":"4"}},{"rank":3,"slug":"lower-east-side","name":"Lower East Side","value":34,"shown":"+34","extra":{"a":"38","b":"4"}},{"rank":4,"slug":"bay-view","name":"Bay View","value":33,"shown":"+33","extra":{"a":"37","b":"4"}},{"rank":5,"slug":"walkers-point","name":"Walker's Point","value":29,"shown":"+29","extra":{"a":"31","b":"2"}},{"rank":6,"slug":"historic-third-ward","name":"Historic Third Ward","value":25,"shown":"+25","extra":{"a":"26","b":"1"}},{"rank":7,"slug":"riverwest","name":"Riverwest","value":22,"shown":"+22","extra":{"a":"24","b":"2"}},{"rank":8,"slug":"historic-mitchell-street","name":"Historic Mitchell 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