New Study Reveals The Best Cities In America For Halloween This Year (And The Worst)

Think your city does Halloween right? Maybe it does, but this new study by WalletHub breaks it down like we’ve never seen before.

To help Americans prepare for the spookiest time of the year, WalletHub crunched the numbers to find the best and worst cities to celebrate the holiday. They compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 16 key metrics, ranging from the number of candy stores per capita to the average cost of a Halloween party ticket to the best and worst weather forecasts for Halloween.

That’s some pretty thorough evidence. So did your city make the top 10 best or worst lists? Let’s find out…

Best Cities for Halloween in 2015
1 New York, NY
2 Jersey City, NJ
3 Newark, NJ
4 Gilbert, AZ
5 Laredo, TX
6 Irving, TX
7 Santa Ana, CA
8 Garland, TX
9 Chandler, AZ
10 Plano, TX

Worst Cities for Halloween in 2015
91 Houston, TX
92 Nashville, TN
93 Indianapolis, IN
94 Charlotte, NC
95 Baton Rouge, LA
96 Oakland, CA
97 Winston-Salem, NC
98 Detroit, MI
99 Memphis, TN
100 St. Petersburg, FL

Just for good measure here are a few more Halloween-based rankings they came up with…

For a complete look at the entire list of 100 cities and how they determined their rankings just give this a click.

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