Minnesota Cities Make List of Best Places to Spend Halloween

It's not surprising that Minnesota has one of the best cities where you could spend Halloween. But what is surprising is the cities Wallet Hub did come up with. After all, the city that was one of the first in the country to celebrate Halloween with a parade is Anoka, Minnesota.

Anoka, in fact, is billed as the "Halloween Capital of the World" because it hosted that Halloween parade back in 1920. But alas, when Wallet Hub was coming up with their list of cities sadly Anoka's population of around 18,000 left them out of the running.

Wallet Hub only looked at the 100 largest cities in this particular Halloween study. So that means Sioux Falls wasn't considered either and Sioux Falls is a pretty great place to hang out on Halloween too.

In any case, the cities in Minnesota that Wallet Hub chose, (as you may have guessed) are St. Paul and Minneapolis.

St. Paul ranked  25th and Minneapolis was 30th out of the 100 cities they looked at.

They compared these cities in 3 basic categories, 1) Trick-or-Treater Friendliness, 2) Halloween Fun, and 3) Halloween Weather. In those categories were things like walker friendliness, crime rates, the number of Halloween costume stores, haunted houses, movie theaters, and pumpkin patches per capita.

Halloween is big business in the U.S., with projected spending around 11.6 billion dollars this year. Of that big pool of cash, 3.8 billion will be spent on costumes, and 3.5 billion will be spent on Halloween candy.

And just like every year, more than half of parents admit to raiding their children's Halloween candy haul for a snack. Some things never change!

You can see the complete Halloween cities study at Wallet Hub.