It’s hard to tell if your neighbors are HUGE Labor Day fanatics, unless they’re having a loud barbecue or late summer pool party. But it’s obvious if your neighborhood has massive Halloween freaks.
A new survey asked Americans to rate how much they LOVE Halloween on a scale of 1 to 5, and then compared the responses across all 50 states.
In the end, the states that are the biggest Halloween fanatics are: Delaware, Idaho, and North Dakota, which all scored an average of 4.2 out of 5.
Several states were just a notch behind that, including: Alabama, California, Iowa, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wyoming.
The state with the LEAST Halloween spirit is: Arizona, possibly because it’s still 90 degrees there during trick-or-treating. For comparison, Arizona scored an average of 3.7 out of 5.
Wisconsin also isn’t THAT into Halloween, and neither are: Montana, Hawaii, South Carolina, Nebraska, Virginia, Alaska, North Carolina, and Georgia.
By the way, the average American purchases 4.5 bags of candy per season, with most opting for the large or party size bags.
And across the country, Americans purchase around 745 MILLION pounds of candy during the Halloween season every year.
The most popular types of candy are chocolate, followed by chewy candy, and fruity candy.
(Here’s the full U.S. map, with every state’s Halloween enthusiasm score.)
