Halloween is coming up fast on the horizon so we’ve pulled together a few statistics from across the internet…

• Americans are big fans of Halloween: they spent nearly $7 billion last year and this figures has continued to rise in recent years
• It’s a great time to be in the pumpkin trade – 18,952 tonnes of pumpkin will be sold, which is the equivalent of 15,420 Ford Focus’
• The top adult costume is a witch, flying away with the win and accounting for 13.4% of answers provided.  A distant second was a pirate, closely followed by a vampire
• 1 in 3 parents will take their children trick or treating
• A third of all expenditure throughout Halloween is on sweets
• 11.5% of those asked got their pets involved by dressing them up for the occasion!

We hope you enjoyed our Halloween stats – watch out for our bonanza of Christmas facts and figures coming soon!