I hope you had a happy Hallowe’en, data-loving Redditors!

Feast your eyes on a frankly embarrassing level of data analysis into Hallowe'en night at my house; tracking 2024 vs 2025 trends.

This is an update to this data from 2024, and I've incorporated both years into a single set of visualizations.

Key Takeaways:

– 2025 Trick or Treaters visiting times were much more concentrated than 2024; potentially due to colder temperatures earlier in the day, and the impact of the Jays game later in the evening.

– Some interesting costume trends. Far more Princesses for whatever reason, as well as an explosion of girls wearing KPOP Demon Hunters costumes. A lot more boys in wizard, dinosaur, firefighter and police costumes, and fewer skeleton/skull masks. Not listed due to space was Wednesday Adams, who went from 4 in 2024 to 0 in 2025.

Source: Good old fashioned observational data recorded with pen & paper.

Analysis Method: Google Sheets & Slides.

Thank you to the keen-eyed observer ICanGetLoudToo who caught an error in my original post.

Posted by Timely-Macaron268

6 comments

  1. **Source:** Good old fashioned observational data recorded with pen & paper.

    **Analysis Tool:** Google Sheets.

  4. This is great. Did you use code to get all of this or did you just type it into excel

  5. It’s interesting that costumes that have negative affect (witches, skeletons, vampires, zombies) have seen a huge drop YoY. Meanwhile, those with positive affect (princess, K-POP demon hunter, dinosaur, firefighter) have seen a huge gain.

    Hypothesis: during depressing times, people want to dress with more exciting or positive vibes, to make themselves feel better. My guess is, this has to do with the adversity that many families have faced this past year.

    Of course, OP’s data is very localized, so I’d like others to share their data/anecdata/observations. Did anyone else see similar trends in their neighbourhoods?

  6. Did people in Toronto project the game on their houses? In SoCal, you apparently had that as a thing. Though the year was really fucked up over all, I had zero (in a harder to reach spot) but the area overall had nothing. Theory is that trunk or treat has taken over as having a greater ROI for kids.

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