America's Halloween trick-or-treat hotspots
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Some areas have an especially high concentration of potential Halloween trick-or-treaters, per an Axios analysis of census data.
The big picture: Five-to-14-year-olds — prime trick-or-treating age — make up about 12.5% of the U.S. population.
Zoom in: Kids 5-14 make up the greatest shares of the state population in Utah (16.2%), Texas (14.4%) and Georgia (13.3%).
- They account for the lowest shares in Massachusetts (10.9%), Florida (11%) and Pennsylvania (11.6%).
How it works: That's according to the 2022 five-year American Community Survey, a demographics-tracking effort from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Caveat: Plenty of kids younger than 5 and older than 14 go trick-or-treating, but this is the least imperfect way to slice the census data for our purposes.
The bottom line: Find your county in the map above to gauge how much candy you might need on hand this Halloween.
