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How many trick-or-treaters did you get?

Third annual online trick-or-treat count kicks off Friday night
For the third year in a row, The Vancouver Sun is teaming up with Bing Thom Architects to pinpoint which Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods have the most trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.
In 2012, the first year of the count, about 100 people took part. Last year, it was more than 600.
The Queen’s Park neighbourhood of New Westminster was the clear trick-or-treat winner last year, with some houses reporting more than 400 trick-or-treaters showing up at their doorstep.
To take part in the project, after you turn off the lights on Oct. 31, click on our interactive survey below and fill out our quick survey.
Tell us the nearest intersection to where you live, how many trick-or-treaters you received and what type of candy you gave out. You can also add an optional comment, like reporting the cutest costume you saw or whether you saw more or less trick-or-treaters this year than last year. Filling out our online form is the easiest way to take part in the project and ensures your report will show up on our map instantly.
But, if you’d prefer, you can email your report to [email protected] or post a message on Twitter with the hashtag #treatcount2014. Just make sure your email or tweet includes the key details. For example: “Cambie and 41st, 40, lollipops #treatcount2014.”
The trick-or-treat count was devised by Andy Yan, a researcher with Bing Thom Architects.
Yan said he’s been surprised how popular the count has become.
“I think it shows people’s pride in their city and in their neighbourhood,” he said. “Trick-or-treating is a statement on a neighbourhood’s generosity and people see this as part of their identity. It’s fantastic!”
The main purpose of the count is to have fun. But Yan also believes that the number of trick-or-treaters in a neighbourhood can be an indicator of social cohesion.
After all, a neighbourhood with lots of trick-or-treaters is one where parents feel comfortable enough to let their kids knock on neighbours’ doors — and where those neighbours, in turn, feel connected enough to those kids to give them free candy.
Yan said, with the municipal elections just a couple of weeks away, there may also be a political angle to this year’s treat count.
While he hasn’t crunched all the numbers, Yan said he was looking at voter turnout maps for the City of Vancouver the other day and noticed that the neighbourhoods with lots of trick-or-treaters also tend to be those with higher-than-average turnout.
“It’s a funny predictor of who shows up to vote,” said Yan. “These are neighbourhoods not to be messed with.”

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Take part in our annual count by letting us know how many trick-or-treaters came to your door.