Milwaukee Neighborhoods

Get to Know Your Neighborhood

Milwaukee is a thriving city with historic architecture and nieghborhoods for everyone. From opportunities to enjoy the shoreline of Lake Michigan, to a thriving culture and arts scene, and award winning parks, Milwaukee is an affordable place in the Midwest to call home.  Our neighborhoods are vibrant centers of culture and economic activity, as well as affordable places for families to live and work.  Listed below are resources that will assist you and your family to explore Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. Each unique neighborhood has a rich history and an engaging community that is sure to appeal to a variety of people. 

• Map of Milwaukee:  This PDF map displays all the neighborhoods in Milwaukee
• Neighborhoods of Milwaukee:  This Wikipedia article gives an overview and brief description of many neighborhoods in Milwaukee.
• Discover Milwaukee:  Extensive resource compiling information about Milwaukee and its neighborhoods
• Neighborhood Associations:  List of Neighborhood Associations in Milwaukee
• Neighborhood News Serrvice:  Provides objective, professional reporting on local issues in five Milwaukee neighborhoods
• My Milwaukee Home:  This site provides the user with a variety of facts about a property and its surrounding area. Simply enter a valid City of Milwaukee street address and obtain information such as property details, street parking restrictions, nearest public choice/charter schools and much more.
• My Milwaukee Neighborhood:  This site provides valuable information about any property, including Neighborhood Groups in Milwaukee COMPASS: Community Mapping, Community Information/Crime Trend Bulletins and more.
• Neighborhood Strategic Planning Statistics:  This site provides access to a wide variety of information for each of the 18 Neighborhood Strategic Planning (NSP) sites in the City of Milwaukee. By clicking on a name of the NSP, you can view a summary of housing, criminal, census data, safety and health information.
• Healthy Neighborhoods:  Working with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, The City of Milwaukee's Neighborhood Improvement Development Coorperation (NDIC) is promoting the Healthy Neighborhoods initiative. The approach focuses on a neighborhood’s positive attributes and works to engage neighbors and homeowners to invest in their neighborhoods and position them as good places to live.

Take Root Milwaukee Neighborhood Partners

These partners are a vital part of the communities they represent and active members of Take Root Milwaukee.

Layton Boulevard West Neighbors is a non-profit community development organization dedicated to revitalizing some of the most diverse, interesting, and exciting neighborhoods in the City. Milwaukee's Silver City, Burnham Park, and Layton Park neighborhoods, LBWN serves residents between Layton Boulevard (27th) and Miller Park Way (43rd) and between Pierce Street (the Menomonee Valley) and Lincoln Avenue on Milwaukee's near southwest side. LBWN is proud to be a Milwaukee Healthy Neighborhood.
Visit the Take Root Layton Boulevard Neighborhood Page
Contact:  Will Sebern, Community Outreach Manager at 414-385-5300 or visit www.lbwn.org to learn more.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation is a national organization with a community focus. In collaboration with local community development groups, LISC Milwaukee staff help identify priorities and challenges, delivering the most appropriate support to meet local needs.  LISC-Milwaukee's Sustainable Communities Initiative promotes the following neighborhoods:

• The Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative involves Harambee residents creating a vision for their community and determining priorities. The plan includes physical, social, and economic improvements that address quality of life issues as well as neighborhood resources and collaboration opportunities.

• Washington Park Partners (WPP) is part of a comprehensive planning process that LISC is spearheading in the Washington Park neighborhood along with numerous other community partners. WPP relies heavily on a strategy pioneered by the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP) in the South Bronx and adopted by NCI (New Communities Initiative) in Chicago that calls for “bottom-up” resident-led planning and leadership development.