Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 63 stores from 47 ice cream & frozen treats in Wilmington, NC. Celtic Creamery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and Sunset Slush.

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
47
Tracked stores
63
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. Celtic Creamery and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Celtic Creamery - +19.9%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +9.2%
3 S Sunset Slush ▼1 +0.9%
4 B Boombalatti's Homemade Ice Cream - +0.5%
5 P Pelican's SnoBalls logo Pelican's SnoBalls - -16.1%
  • Kilwins
  • Boombalatti's Homemade Ice Cream
  • Dairy Queen
  • Sunset Slush
  • Beach Bunny
  • Celtic Creamery
  • Sweet Alicious
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

63 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Kilwins (2)
  • Boombalatti's Homemade Ice Cream (3)
  • Dairy Queen (5)
  • Sunset Slush (5)
  • Beach Bunny (1)
  • Celtic Creamery (3)
  • Sweet Alicious (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 5
  • 2 S Sunset Slush 5
  • 3 P Pelican's SnoBalls logo Pelican's SnoBalls 4
  • 4 B Boombalatti's Homemade Ice Cream 3
  • 5 C Celtic Creamery 3
  • 6 K Kilwins logo Kilwins 2
  • 7 M Milly's Ice Cream 1
  • 8 I Island Ice Factory 1
  • 9 T Tropical Treats 1
  • 10 S Spike's Dairy Bar 1
  • 11 T The Daily Scoop 1
  • 12 C Calabash Sweets & Ice Cream 1
  • 13 G Grumpy’s Soft Serve at The Bend 1
  • 14 C Chuck’s Homemade Ice Cream 1
  • 15 H Haley's Ice Cream Store 1
  • 16 F Frosty's Ice Cream 1
  • 17 K Kreamium Frozen Custard 1
  • 18 F Flava's Ice Cream Shop 1
  • 19 S Scoops Ice Cream Parlor 1
  • 20 T Tropicalsno Wilmington 1
  • 21 V Van Gogh Gurt 1
  • 22 K Kona Ice logo Kona Ice 1
  • 23 I Ice Cream Stand 1
  • 24 S Southport Suzie's 1
  • 25 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 1
  • 26 R Russell's Ice Cream 1
  • 27 B Beach Bunny 1
  • 28 S Sweet Alicious 1
  • 29 C Calabash Creamery 1
  • 30 P Phroyo 1
  • 31 S Saltwater Shanty 1
  • 32 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream 1
  • 33 F Fuzzy Peach logo Fuzzy Peach 1
  • 34 F Fudgeboat 1
  • 35 B Beaches N Cream 1
  • 36 T The Original Ice Cream Stand 1
  • 37 T The Fuzzy Peach logo The Fuzzy Peach 1
  • 38 L Lil & John's Sweetreat Ice Cream Parlor 1
  • 39 J Jeremiah's Italian Ice logo Jeremiah's Italian Ice 1
  • 40 T The Scoop 1
  • 41 F Fun Time Ice Cream 1
  • 42 C Crispy Cones logo Crispy Cones 1
  • 43 O Ocean Isle Creamery 1
  • 44 M Mimi & Papa's 1
  • 45 G Gelarto 1
  • 46 M MooTown 1
  • 47 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 1

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