Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 61 stores from 34 ice cream & frozen treats in Akron, OH. Handel's Homemade Ice Cream grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt.

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
34
Tracked stores
61
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. Handel's Homemade Ice Cream and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream - +9.0%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +0.3%
3 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - -7.7%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Trail Mix Boston
  • Stricklands Frozen Custard
  • Sweet Henrie's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

61 tracked store locations in Akron, OH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (22)
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream (4)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (3)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (2)
  • Trail Mix Boston (1)
  • Stricklands Frozen Custard (1)
  • Sweet Henrie's (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 22
  • 2 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream 4
  • 3 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt 3
  • 4 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 2
  • 5 T Trail Mix Boston 1
  • 6 S Stricklands Frozen Custard 1
  • 7 S Sweet Henrie's 1
  • 8 R Rosati's Frozen Custard 1
  • 9 P Pav's Creamery 1
  • 10 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 1
  • 11 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard 1
  • 12 C Country Maid Ice Cream 1
  • 13 S Sloan's Ice Cream 1
  • 14 S Stricklands of Kent 1
  • 15 L Lulu's Yogurt 1
  • 16 D Durbin Magic Freeze 1
  • 17 N Nik's Donuts 1
  • 18 S Sal's Gelato 1
  • 19 S Strickland's Ice Cream 1
  • 20 C Chill Ice Cream 1
  • 21 F Fantasy Delight 1
  • 22 W Wolf Creek Creamery 1
  • 23 H Hersheys of Hudson Ice Cream 1
  • 24 S Stoddard's Frozen Custard 1
  • 25 S Stow Cone 1
  • 26 B Biggins' Big Dip 1
  • 27 E Ebony's Ice Cream 1
  • 28 V Vance's Carriage House Creamery 1
  • 29 H Henry's Creamery 1
  • 30 T The Ice Bucket 1
  • 31 C Chilling Station 1
  • 32 T Twisted Bliss 1
  • 33 B Bubbles & Puffles 1
  • 34 W Welch's Dairy Cream 1

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