# Which Milwaukee neighborhood has the most ice cream shops?

The Lower East Side has the most ice cream shops of any City of Milwaukee neighborhood, with 3 ice cream shops.

Count by residents and Martin Drive comes first, at 0.8 per 1,000, even though it ranks 4th by plain count. Among the suburbs, Wauwatosa has the most, at 4.

Metric: Records in the ice cream shops category. Period: As of November 3, 2026. Source: [Little Milwaukee business records, from public licenses, filings and OpenStreetMap](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records).

## City of Milwaukee neighborhoods

| Rank | Neighborhood | Records in the ice cream shops category | Per 1,000 residents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Lower East Side](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/lower-east-side) | 3 | 0.3 |
| 2 | [Walker's Point](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/walkers-point) | 2 | 0.3 |
| 2 | [Washington Heights](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/washington-heights) | 2 | 0.3 |
| 4 | [Bay View](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bay-view) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 4 | [Bluemound Heights](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bluemound-heights) | 1 | 0.3 |
| 4 | [Capitol Heights](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/capitol-heights) | 1 | 0.2 |
| 4 | [Estabrook Park](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/estabrook-park) | 1 |  |
| 4 | [Historic Mitchell Street](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/historic-mitchell-street) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 4 | [Historic Third Ward](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/historic-third-ward) | 1 | 0.6 |
| 4 | [Lincoln Village](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/lincoln-village) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 4 | [Martin Drive](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/martin-drive) | 1 | 0.8 |
| 4 | [Muskego Way](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/muskego-way) | 1 | 0.1 |

169 City neighborhoods aren't in this table: no record in this category is inside their boundary.

## Suburbs

| Rank | Neighborhood | Records in the ice cream shops category | Per 1,000 residents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Wauwatosa](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/wauwatosa) | 4 | 0.1 |
| 2 | [Franklin](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/franklin) | 2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | [Glendale](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/glendale) | 2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | [Greenfield](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/greenfield) | 2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | [Oak Creek](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/oak-creek) | 2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | [West Allis](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/west-allis) | 2 | 0.0 |
| 7 | [Bayside](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bayside) | 1 | 0.2 |
| 7 | [Cudahy](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/cudahy) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 7 | [Fox Point](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/fox-point) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 7 | [South Milwaukee](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/south-milwaukee) | 1 | 0.0 |
| 7 | [St. Francis](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/st-francis) | 1 | 0.1 |

## How it was measured

We count the business records we've placed in the ice cream shops category, by the neighborhood boundary each address is inside.

## What would change the answer

A record's category comes from its license and from public sources, and we don't have a category for every record. So the true count can be higher where more records have no category.