We’ve had 80-100 the last couple of years but less than half that this year.
Don’t know what’s usual in my apartment building, since we just moved here in June.
I got ZERO trick-or-treaters, much to my disappointment (I like the cute little mooches).
I voted “Less than a dozen,” but we didn’t have any. The trend seems to be going to the malls or private church/school parties rather than door-to-door. I’m just as glad; it makes the dogs insane.
One, I didn’t even answer the door.
At my house, 0. There haven’t been any trick o’ treaters for about 12 years because there are no children in this neighborhood. At a friend’s house, where I actually was last night, about 40.
212 to be exact… but I live on a very popular Trick or Treat street.
We bagged about a dozen, but three got away.
About three times more than we have ever had before, so something like 25-30. I don’t know what is going on. We usually only get the eight or ten kids that I know live around our street. This year we ran out of candy by 8:00 and had to shut the light off and even then I had to turn away a group of 8. I watched them carefully to make sure we didn’t get a trick.
I got about 40, which is down from last year when I got about 100.
The church closest to my house held a carnival for the first time this year and I think they siphoned off a lot of my t-o-t’ers. Also, this is the first year my kids said they were too old to dress up and t-o-t.
As usual, we tricked them by offering veggies first. The kids took about 9 carrots (some went back to the carrots even after they got their candy!), but there was no love for broccoli or radishes. Last year, I found bits of chewed up Brussel’s sprouts in my grass!
Same here, thank fuck.
Although I did get someone, not dressed up, trick or treating about two months ago. That was weird.
We typically get one neighbor kid and one of his friends. The wife always has something special for him. This year he came alone and two kids from down the street came a few minutes later. So that’s more than usual.
Normally, I get zero, but this year I got two little kids (brother and sister, same visit).
We had 2.5 bags of candy that we were stumped what to do at 7:30, they were trickling in like a drip, but in the next 30 mins we were able to give away all of the candy
Well, I didn’t give out candy, but then I had no expectation that anyone would show up wanting any, either (and I was correct about this).
Just as well, I was recovering from speaking with the dead and was in no shape to play hostess. 
About 350 which was a bit more than last year when it was raining. Cold but clear this year.
350? I was about to ask if you lived in Grand Central Station, but these days you wouldn’t have gotten that many if you did live in Grand Central Station.
I live in a neighborhood where the home-owners are older and don’t have any children living at home anymore. All the kids in the neighborhood come from the rental houses and apartments.
There is a lot of turnover in the rental units, so from year to year there is a wide variance in the number of trick-or-treating kids.
I usually buy 5 bags of candy (3 musketeers, snickers, almond joy, and other mini chocolate bars). Some years I go through all of it. Some years, I am left with 4 unopened bags of candy.
This year I had no-one come by for the first hour and a half of trick-or-treating and ended up giving out handfulls of candy to the kids who came to my door and still ended up with 2 unopened bags and a half a bowl full.
I had about 12 kids. I also threw candy to about 6 adults.
I saw about a dozen kids across the railroad tracks on the other side of the street who didn’t cross over, but this was at the start of trick-or-treating (4pm) and they weren’t in costume and looked like they were just coming home from school. (A small number of parents drive their kids to ‘better’ neighborhoods to trick-or-treat and never actually go around our area.)
I think # of ToTers is mostly a function of the age of the neighborhood.
For 10 years we lived in a neighborhood with 40 year old houses. Maybe 1 in 5 houses would have pre-teen kids. Mostly empty nesters. We’d get a couple dozen trick or treaters.
Now we live in a nearby neighborhood with 10 year old houses. At least 1/2 have pre-teen kids. We get over 300 and that’s low for the area since we’re at the end of a one way street off the main paths. Halloween night brings streets packed with kids and adults sitting around fire pits drinking, socializing, and setting off fireworks.
One group of four boys.
This is fewer than usual, but it was expected. We’d had snow a few days before, and it was raining on top of the snow, so kids were being strategic and limiting their time outside. That meant going directly to the blocks where lot of houses were decorated, and on our block it’s slim pickings. When the weather is good and it’s fun to be out after dark, we get more kids.
That’s about how many we lay in candy for, and we always, always, always run out. Usually around 7:00 (TOT doesn’t even officially start till 6). Last year we only made it to 7 because the neighborhood “candy angels” brought us a couple extra bags that bought us another 10 minutes. This year we put it out in a bin on the porch with a sign not to be greedy, and they had us cleaned out by 6:30. I’d estimate you get 500-700 kids each year, depending on the weather and what else is going on.
We don’t live in Grand Central Station, but we do live in one of only a handful of walkable neighborhoods in multiple counties, but we get kids hauled in from all over the place. At peak times, there are lines nearly to the street at every single house that’s giving out candy. People set up on their porches or out in their yards rather than have the door open for 2 hours straight. It’s gotten to the point that it feels less like a holiday and more like a swarm of locusts, honestly.