Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 238 stores from 94 ice cream & frozen treats in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Always Ice Cream and Bruster's Ice Cream.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
94
Tracked stores
238
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Dairy Queen and Always Ice Cream sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +3.8%
2 A Always Ice Cream logo Always Ice Cream ▲1 +1.1%
3 B Bruster's Ice Cream logo Bruster's Ice Cream - +0.5%
4 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - -4.2%
5 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - -4.9%
6 K Kona Ice logo Kona Ice - -7.6%
7 T The Charmery - -13.4%
8 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲1 -16.7%
9 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▼1 -18.7%
10 I Icy Delights - -30.5%
11 T Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt ▼1 -31.8%
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
  • Dairy Queen
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Always Ice Cream
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Kilwins
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

238 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Baskin-Robbins (39)
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (48)
  • Dairy Queen (8)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (10)
  • Always Ice Cream (3)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (18)
  • Kilwins (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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