5 SoCal Cities Rank Among Best Places for Halloween 2025

With Halloween just around the corner and total spending on related expenses projected to reach $13.1 billion this year, the personal-finance company WalletHub today released its 2025’s Best Places for Halloween report, as well as expert commentary, along with fun and interesting stats about the holiday in its Halloween Facts infographic.

To help Americans decide where to spend the most spook-tacular time of year without frightening their bank accounts, WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 20 key metrics. They range from candy and chocolate stores per capita to Halloween party supplies stores per capita to share of potential trick-or-treat stops.

Top 20 Cities for Halloween 2025
1. New York, NY
2. Jersey City, NJ
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. Chicago, IL
5. Las Vegas, NV
6. Miami, FL
7. Anaheim, CA
8. Boston, MA
9. Gilbert, AZ
10. Newark, NJ
11. Orlando, FL
12. San Diego, CA
13. St. Paul, MN
14. Honolulu, HI
15. Washington, DC
16. Laredo, TX
17. San Francisco, CA
18. Cincinnati, OH
19. Hialeah, FL
20. San Jose, CA

Halloween 2025 Facts:

  • $13.1 Billion: Projected Halloween spending in 2025.
  • $4.3 Billion: Halloween costume spending in 2025.
  • $3.9 Billion: Halloween candy spending in 2025.
  • 15%: Share of parents who think 9 or 11 is old enough to trick-or-treat alone.
  • More than half: Share of parents who help themselves to some of their children’s Halloween haul.
  • $400 Million: Annual revenue generated by the Halloween attraction industry in ticket sales, with 53% of haunted houses supporting or being affiliated with a nonprofit organization.

“Halloween holds a big place in American popular culture, and we collectively spend billions of dollars celebrating every year. At the same time, it’s also a holiday that comes with a certain amount of risk, given that children visit strangers’ houses in the dark,” according to Chriis Lupo, WalletHub analyst. “The best cities for Halloween are those that provide the safest conditions for celebrating, along with an abundance of activities, Halloween-related stores and good weather.”

New York City is the best place to be on Halloween, boasting the second-most Halloween costume shops and the most candy stores per capita, according to Lupo. +On top of that, New York has the highest population density in the country, and the second-highest walkability score, which means it’s easy to go trick or treating and get a lot of candy. When it comes to other Halloween activities, New York also has the second-most movie theaters per capita and the 16th-most haunted houses, along with many amusement parks.”

 

 

 

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