--- title: Here Are The Best Cities For Trick-Or-Treating description: These 20 cities are the best for trick-or-treating. 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But real estate site Zillow takes this annual battle for Halloween domination to a national level: instead of house-to-house comparisons, the site ranks which cities measure up as the best for trick-or-treaters overall. The winner: San Francisco. Followed by Los Angeles and Chicago, with Baltimore rounding out the list at number 20. The results are based on four variables: neighborhood home values (with the assumption that wealthier neighborhoods will give out more and better candy), population density, [Walk Score](http://www.walkscore.com) and local crime data. [According to Zillow](http://www.zillow.com/blog/trick-or-treat/), the list reflects the cities that amount to the Holy Grail of trick-or-treating: “the most candy, in the least amount of time, with the fewest safety risks.” See if your city makes the cut [here](http://www.zillow.com/blog/trick-or-treat/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3506272/best-cities-halloween-trick-or-treat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3506272/best-cities-halloween-trick-or-treat/"},"headline":"Here Are The Best Cities For Trick-or-Treating","datePublished":"2014-10-14T15:31:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:09.524Z","description":"Data for the most dedicated trick-or-treaters","url":"https://time.com/3506272/best-cities-halloween-trick-or-treat/","keywords":["Living","cities","Culture","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5eee8173e245daf/698760a7cd68486246097192/78489072.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5eee8173e245daf/698760a7cd68486246097192/78489072.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Children trick-or-treating","caption":"Children trick-or-treating","creditText":"Comstock—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3506272/best-cities-halloween-trick-or-treat/","name":"Here Are The Best Cities For Trick-or-Treating"}}]}] ```