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The 2012 Halloween Index
The metros best primed for trick-or-treating and Halloween revelry.
Today and tonight are the times when kids across America come out for trick-or-treating. For the second year, we tracked down the metros best primed for trick-or-treating and Halloween revelry.
For this year's "Halloween Index," Kevin Stolarick and my Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) colleagues focused on five factors that make for a great Halloween metro area — population density (which makes for efficient trick-or-treating), kids ages five to 14 (as a share of metro population), and median income (a measure of regional affluence), as well as candy stores and costume rental stores per one hundred thousand people.