I’ve been using Excel to keep track of how many kids show up each year at Halloween.
We’ve done full-size bars every year and added glow sticks a couple years ago.
I wonder what happened in 2020 and 2021
20th year in a row I had zero.
It felt like there was a lot less kids this year
This is cool data to share OP, thanks for sharing 🙂
I bought one of those handheld tally counters to see how many we had this year. We ran out of candy after 533 trick-or-treaters.
Personally, id remove the massive grey bar and just keep it empty. After all the amount of kids was 0.
We ran out of candy last year. So this year we bought two big bags from Costco. Didn’t even get through one bag this time. There were definitely fewer kids out in our neighborhood, and weather wasn’t a factor.
Do you know why there was such a huge drop from 2009-2010?
My wife and I anecdotally have noticed that year over year we see fewer and fewer. It just seems like something kids generally are no longer doing much.
Where are you located? I’m in Ontario and everyone shut down just before the World Series game, we only had 2 kids after 8 pm
This is awesome! My parents got 380 kids this year.. would have been cool to see this data each year if they did something similar.
I’m from the east coast where Halloween is a big deal but moved to the midwest plains and “trunk or treat” is the thing here. I buy a small bag of candy each year, I think I’ve gotten three visitors in 4 years. Its truly sad
Same here. I ended up putting a lot of leftover candy in a bowl on the steps and was glad to see someone took it all.
We have been in our house for 9 Halloweens now and have never had one
Our front door is in an unlit alley right next to a major road so you know
Gotta compare to baseline kid population in the neighborhood as it changes over time.
We are in a relatively new development. Kidmageddon.
Didn’t count but I’d guess 150+
Was a pretty constant stream of 2-5 kids every few minutes between 630-830
Pre COVID my uncle would do a massive Halloween display with an ambulance, professional audio system, lights, etc. and would get about 450 kids. I believe in 2022 and 2023 the count was around 50.
Fridays can’t catch a break
I got 7 this year, which is nearly a record (I had 8 once). My full size bars were popular, but I also had several kids get excited when I first offered onions (gave away 5 – they got real candy too).
I’ve been tracking the number of kids to my door since moving here in 2016. Zero. Still Zero.
One group of kids walked down the street and that was it.
This person is mildly insane but it’s pretty cool.
I’m 32 and I was still trick or treating in 2009 lol. I get no more than like 30 small children and like 10-15 teenagers to my house
I got 40 and I was thrilled. I live at the top of a hill and I gave out full size bars and special pops like baby bottle pops and push pops and ring pops. The joy on the little faces! I can’t wait for next year 🙂
What happened during 2020 and 2021? Some sort of black swan event?
I live in a neigborhood full of.starter homes and townhomes (been here 20+ years). I call it “newlywed and nearly dead”. Lots of turn over in the homes, so you never know from one year to the next. This year just over 20.
I had king size, I was expecting 24-36 kids. I got 8 and ate 4 myself
I’ve lived in the same place for 9 years this October and we’ve had 3 trick or treaters 😭, all for the first time last year. This year we got one, but I was at work.
Our first year here I bought a Costco sized box hoping for lots of trick or treaters 😂
Very interesting data from which I can infere that if there is no school the next day, it is very likely to rain.
Looks like making the spreadsheet made the most impact 😅
We used to get around 100 kids now we get 0. Haven’t gotten any in a few years… they all just go to the same neighborhood now.
OP got 99 the first year with no school the next day and has been chasing 100 ever since!
At what amount of precipitation does it get the rain designation?
18 and 25 have the same amount but only one has it. 24 has more than both and doesn’t.
Needs ICE a potential impact
Our area was surprisingly really down this year. Which we weren’t expecting as the weather was great and it’s a Friday.
So what you’re saying is you have some leftovers? 😏
Damn I wish we had more kids, we give out full size candy bars, but no one comes. We had 3 this year, and the last kid got like 30 full size candy bars lmaoooo
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I’ve been using Excel to keep track of how many kids show up each year at Halloween.
We’ve done full-size bars every year and added glow sticks a couple years ago.
I wonder what happened in 2020 and 2021
20th year in a row I had zero.
It felt like there was a lot less kids this year
This is cool data to share OP, thanks for sharing 🙂
I bought one of those handheld tally counters to see how many we had this year. We ran out of candy after 533 trick-or-treaters.
Personally, id remove the massive grey bar and just keep it empty. After all the amount of kids was 0.
We ran out of candy last year. So this year we bought two big bags from Costco. Didn’t even get through one bag this time. There were definitely fewer kids out in our neighborhood, and weather wasn’t a factor.
Do you know why there was such a huge drop from 2009-2010?
My wife and I anecdotally have noticed that year over year we see fewer and fewer. It just seems like something kids generally are no longer doing much.
Where are you located? I’m in Ontario and everyone shut down just before the World Series game, we only had 2 kids after 8 pm
This is awesome! My parents got 380 kids this year.. would have been cool to see this data each year if they did something similar.
I’m from the east coast where Halloween is a big deal but moved to the midwest plains and “trunk or treat” is the thing here. I buy a small bag of candy each year, I think I’ve gotten three visitors in 4 years. Its truly sad
Same here. I ended up putting a lot of leftover candy in a bowl on the steps and was glad to see someone took it all.
We have been in our house for 9 Halloweens now and have never had one
Our front door is in an unlit alley right next to a major road so you know
Gotta compare to baseline kid population in the neighborhood as it changes over time.
We are in a relatively new development. Kidmageddon.
Didn’t count but I’d guess 150+
Was a pretty constant stream of 2-5 kids every few minutes between 630-830
Pre COVID my uncle would do a massive Halloween display with an ambulance, professional audio system, lights, etc. and would get about 450 kids. I believe in 2022 and 2023 the count was around 50.
Fridays can’t catch a break
I got 7 this year, which is nearly a record (I had 8 once). My full size bars were popular, but I also had several kids get excited when I first offered onions (gave away 5 – they got real candy too).
I’ve been tracking the number of kids to my door since moving here in 2016. Zero. Still Zero.
One group of kids walked down the street and that was it.
This person is mildly insane but it’s pretty cool.
I’m 32 and I was still trick or treating in 2009 lol. I get no more than like 30 small children and like 10-15 teenagers to my house
I got 40 and I was thrilled. I live at the top of a hill and I gave out full size bars and special pops like baby bottle pops and push pops and ring pops. The joy on the little faces! I can’t wait for next year 🙂
What happened during 2020 and 2021? Some sort of black swan event?
I live in a neigborhood full of.starter homes and townhomes (been here 20+ years). I call it “newlywed and nearly dead”. Lots of turn over in the homes, so you never know from one year to the next. This year just over 20.
I had king size, I was expecting 24-36 kids. I got 8 and ate 4 myself
I’ve lived in the same place for 9 years this October and we’ve had 3 trick or treaters 😭, all for the first time last year. This year we got one, but I was at work.
Our first year here I bought a Costco sized box hoping for lots of trick or treaters 😂
Very interesting data from which I can infere that if there is no school the next day, it is very likely to rain.
Looks like making the spreadsheet made the most impact 😅
We used to get around 100 kids now we get 0. Haven’t gotten any in a few years… they all just go to the same neighborhood now.
OP got 99 the first year with no school the next day and has been chasing 100 ever since!
At what amount of precipitation does it get the rain designation?
18 and 25 have the same amount but only one has it. 24 has more than both and doesn’t.
Needs ICE a potential impact
Our area was surprisingly really down this year. Which we weren’t expecting as the weather was great and it’s a Friday.
So what you’re saying is you have some leftovers? 😏
Damn I wish we had more kids, we give out full size candy bars, but no one comes. We had 3 this year, and the last kid got like 30 full size candy bars lmaoooo
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