The best trick-or-treating neighborhoods are . . .
Published: 10/24/2012 1:30 PM
Last Modified: 10/24/2012 1:28 PM
Our neighbor warned us: “You’re going to need a lot of candy.”
We nodded politely.
“No, seriously,” he told us. “A lot.”
That first year in the neighborhood, my wife and I bought enough Halloween treats to feed busloads of children.
We just didn’t expect to see actual buses dumping kids off a couple of blocks from our front door.
I ran back to the store for more candy. Twice.
Churches. Schools. Day-care centers. Boy Scout troops. You name it, they all come pouring into certain parts of midtown Tulsa every Oct. 31.
It’s all good fun, except for the frightful mess of candy wrappers they leave behind. But residents do sometimes ask themselves, “Why us? Why here?”
To judge what kind of Halloween experience a neighborhood will offer, you have to consider four factors, according to the real estate experts at Zillow.
Home values.
Population density.
“Walkability.”
And crime rates.
Zillow recently ranked the Top 20 cities for trick-or-treating. And, scandalously, Tulsa didn’t make the cut.
But I spent some time -- don’t tell my editor, but probably way too much time -- crunching numbers to see how parts of town would stack up against Zillow’s rating system.
I found pretty much what I expected, and what trick-or-treaters seem to know instinctively, without the benefit of a spreadsheet.
The best Halloween neighborhoods -- based on Zillow’s criteria -- include:
North Maple Ridge.
Swan Lake.
Yorktown.
Lewiston Gardens.
And Florence Park.
Interestingly, they all line up along 21st Street, starting near downtown and ending close to the Tulsa County Fairgrounds.
Surely Tulsa has other trick-or-treating hot spots.
Where would you recommend taking a busload of little goblins?
Written by
Michael Overall
Staff Writer
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