TriviaNo. 7032 · The 2026 edition
Find Out How Scary Your City Is With This New Interactive Map
Curious if your hometown makes the list of spookiest places? This interactive map reveals the creepiest cities across the country.
Our own summary of the original — the full post and photos live at marthastewart.com.
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A new interactive map ranks cities based on various spooky criteria, from haunted history to Halloween celebrations. Check where your city falls on the scare scale.
About this
Martha Stewart reports on Instacart's new interactive Halloween map and 'Scare Score' tool, which ranks U.S. zip codes on how enthusiastically they do Halloween. The score is built from past shopping data for candy, costumes, and décor, and the article lists the ten most Halloween-iest zip codes in the country.
The list
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Draper, UT 84020
Top-ranked zip code on Instacart's scariest cities list
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Lehi, UT 84043
Second scariest zip code nationally
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Scarsdale, NY 10583
Third place on the list
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Birmingham, MI
Fourth scariest city; no zip code given
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Hinsdale, IL 60521
Fifth place on the list
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Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Sixth scariest zip code
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Santa Monica, CA 90402
Seventh place on the list
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Rye, NY 10580
Eighth scariest zip code
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Austin, TX 78746
Ninth place; Austin's 78746 zip code
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San Jose, CA 95125
Tenth and final zip code on the list
Where to watch: Instacart interactive Halloween map: https://trickortreat.instacart.com/?location=10017
Facts from the original
- Instacart created an interactive Halloween map and 'Scare Score' technology to rank U.S. cities by Halloween enthusiasm.
- The map uses data from previous Halloween seasons to determine which cities purchased the most candy, costumes, and décor, based on shopping data and volume of orders per person in the area.
- The scare score is ranked out of 100, featuring an index for all categories.
- You can find your neighborhood's scare score by searching your zip code in the tool and seeing how your city ranks in each category.
- Results for each zip code share the best-seller candies and local favorites, calculated by the total weight of each candy delivered in the zip code in October 2023.
- You can boost your city's scare score by ordering candy, costumes, and décor for delivery.
- Instacart included 'The Most Halloween-iest Zip Codes' in the U.S. based on their scare scores.
From the original
Instacart launched an interactive Halloween map and a 'Scare Score' that ranks how scary—or rather, how Halloween-obsessed—each U.S. zip code is. The score draws on previous Halloween seasons' shopping data, counting candy, costume, and décor purchases and the volume of orders per person in an area. Each score is out of 100, with an index for every category, and users can look up their own zip code to see how their neighborhood stacks up and which candies are best-sellers locally, based on the total weight of candy delivered there in October 2023. The article also shares Instacart's list of the ten most Halloween-iest zip codes, topped by Draper, UT 84020. Readers are told they can raise their city's score by ordering candy, costumes, and décor for delivery.
