{"slug":"most-theaters","topic":"Business","query":"theaters_records_by_neighborhood","title":"Most theaters by Milwaukee neighborhood","question":"Which Milwaukee neighborhood has the most theaters?","answer":"The Historic Third Ward has the most theaters of any City of Milwaukee neighborhood, with 16 theaters.","finding":"The top 5 neighborhoods have 73.8% of the City's 65 theaters. Among the suburbs, West Allis has the most, at 2.","metric":"Records in the theaters category","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 business records we've placed in the theaters category, by the neighborhood boundary each address is inside.","caveat":"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.","columns":[{"key":"per","label":"Per 1,000 residents"}],"floor":null,"city":[{"rank":1,"slug":"historic-third-ward","name":"Historic Third Ward","value":16,"shown":"16","extra":{"per":"10.1"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"juneau-town","name":"Juneau Town","value":13,"shown":"13","extra":{"per":"2.3"}},{"rank":3,"slug":"kilbourn-town","name":"Kilbourn Town","value":10,"shown":"10","extra":{"per":"1.9"}},{"rank":4,"slug":"lower-east-side","name":"Lower East Side","value":6,"shown":"6","extra":{"per":"0.5"}},{"rank":5,"slug":"alverno","name":"Alverno","value":3,"shown":"3","extra":{"per":"2.6"}},{"rank":5,"slug":"avenues-west","name":"Avenues West","value":3,"shown":"3","extra":{"per":"0.4"}},{"rank":5,"slug":"marquette","name":"Marquette","value":3,"shown":"3","extra":{"per":"2.0"}},{"rank":8,"slug":"harbor-view","name":"Harbor View","value":2,"shown":"2","extra":{"per":"1.0"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"amani","name":"Amani","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.2"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"downer-woods","name":"Downer Woods","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.2"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"haymarket","name":"Haymarket","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"1.5"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"historic-mitchell-street","name":"Historic Mitchell Street","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.1"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"lake-park","name":"Lake Park","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":""}},{"rank":9,"slug":"martin-drive","name":"Martin Drive","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.8"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"riverwest","name":"Riverwest","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.1"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"upper-east-side","name":"Upper East Side","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.3"}},{"rank":9,"slug":"washington-park","name":"Washington Park","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.3"}}],"suburbs":[{"rank":1,"slug":"west-allis","name":"West Allis","value":2,"shown":"2","extra":{"per":"0.0"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"bayside","name":"Bayside","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.2"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"glendale","name":"Glendale","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.1"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"greenfield","name":"Greenfield","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.0"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"south-milwaukee","name":"South Milwaukee","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.0"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"wauwatosa","name":"Wauwatosa","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.0"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"whitefish-bay","name":"Whitefish Bay","value":1,"shown":"1","extra":{"per":"0.1"}}],"suburbs_note":null,"left_out":"164 City neighborhoods aren't in this table: no record in this category is inside their boundary.","median":"1","median_value":1,"display_only":false,"photo":{"src":"/neighborhoods/historic-third-ward/third-ward-street.jpg","credit":"SecretName101","license":"CC BY 4.0","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Third_Ward_in_Milwaukee_photographed_in_June_2024_%E2%80%947274.jpg","caption":"Historic Third Ward, ranked 1st of 17","alt":"Historic Third Ward"},"related":["most-businesses","lowest-share-of-national-chains","most-restaurants","most-taverns","most-cafes","most-grocers"],"trend":null,"scatter":null,"built_at":"2026-11-03T02:42:47.914Z","url":"https://littlemilwaukee.com/answers/most-theaters","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}