Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - 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 has 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.
Las Vegas got a lot of love from WalletHub, finishing 5th overall. Helping our overall ranking were 1st place finishes in the “Halloween Costume Stores” and “Candy and Chocolate Stores” per capita categories, while lower rankings in the “Walk Score” (55th) “Crime Rate” (40th) and (surprisingly) “Weather” (93rd!) categories kept Sin City from getting a higher score.
Overall, WalletHub ranked New York City as the best city for Halloween, followed by Jersey City, Los Angeles and Chicago.
WalletHub was less kind to other Nevada cities, with Reno finishing 54th, North Las Vegas 69th, and Henderson at 72nd.
Several places in the southeast scored the lowest in the survey, with Memphis at the bottom. Baton Rouge, Birmingham, and Nashville also got frighteningly low scores.
To look at the whole WalletHub survey, click here.