From WalletHub
With total Halloween spending expected to reach $8.4 billion this year — $1.5 billion more than in 2015 — the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2016’s Best Cities for Halloween report along with fun and interesting facts about the holiday in its Halloween By The Numbers infographic.
To help Americans prepare for the spookiest time of the year, WalletHub crunched the numbers to find the best and cheapest cities to celebrate the holiday. We compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 18 key metrics, ranging from “number of candy and chocolate stores per capita” to “average cost of a Halloween party ticket” to “Halloween weather forecast.”
Halloween Fun Facts
• $8.38 Billion – Projected Halloween-related spending in 2016 ($3.14 billion on costumes).
• $547.9 Million – Halloween candy sales (fourth biggest candy-selling holiday).
• $300+ Million – Annual revenue from ticket sales to haunted attractions (80 percent of which are charity-operated).
• 72 Percent – Share of parents who say they steal Halloween candy from their kids.
It’s the spookiest time of the year, when superstition runs rampant and treats always come with the potential for a trick. But like with anything else, the more you know about Halloween, the less scary it seems.
For example, did you know that ringing doorbells and lighting candles are thought to help ward away all of the witches, ghosts and evil spirits on All Hallows’ Eve? And were you aware that charities operate 80 percent of the country’s haunted attractions?
From the 16.2 percent of people who plan to put costumes on their pets to the 72 percent of parents who admit stealing from their kids’ trick-or-treating stash, there’s always something interesting to learn about Halloween. So to ease your fears and help you enjoy a fun, safe Halloween, we explored the holiday from all angles.
