With Halloween just around the corner and total spending on related expenses projected to reach $8.8 billion this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its 2019’s Best Places for Halloween
report as well as accompanying videos, along with fun and interesting stats about the holiday in its “Halloween Facts: Tricks & Treats By the Numbers” infographic.
To help Americans decide where to spend the most spooktacular time of year without frightening their bank accounts, WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 21 key metrics. They range from candy and chocolate stores per capita to average price per Halloween party ticket to share of potential trick-or-treat stops.
The top 20 locations are
- New York, N.Y.
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Boston, Mass.
- San Diego, Calif.
- Las Vegas, Nev.
- Chicago, Ill.
- Miami, Fla.
- Philadelphia, Penn.
- San Francisco, Calif.
- San Jose, Calif.
- Gilbert, Ariz.
- Chula Vista, Calif.
- Irvine, Calif.
- Irving, Texas
- Laredo, Texas
- Santa Ana, Calif.
- El Paso, Texas
- Jersey City, N.J.
- Chandler, Ariz.
- Plano, Texas
2019 Halloween facts
- $8.8 billion: Projected Halloween spending
- $3.2 billion: Costume spending
- $2.6 billion: Candy spending
- 36%: Share of parents who think 12-13 is old enough to trick-or-treat alone.
- 72%: Share of parents who admit to stealing candy from their kids.
- $300+ million: Annual revenue from ticket sales for haunted attractions, 80% of which are run by charities.
