New Hampshire has 7.86 Spirit Halloween stores per million residents, more than any other state in America. California, which has the most stores of anywhere by a wide margin, ranks 20th.
Raw store counts just track population. Eleven stores in New Hampshire hits harder than 142 in California, and the per-person view is where the map gets interesting.
The top 10
| Rank | State | Stores per million | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Hampshire | 7.86 | 11 |
| 2 | Arizona | 6.11 | 45 |
| 3 | Delaware | 5.88 | 6 |
| 4 | Colorado | 5.82 | 34 |
| 5 | Idaho | 5.67 | 11 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 5.47 | 22 |
| 7 | Alaska | 5.46 | 4 |
| 8 | Washington | 5.39 | 42 |
| 9 | North Dakota | 5.13 | 4 |
| 10 | Utah | 5.03 | 17 |
Arizona is the one that survives both tests. It is second per person and eighth by raw count, with 45 stores. Nowhere else manages that.
The big states are middle of the pack
| State | Stores | Rank by count | Rank per person |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | 1st | 20th |
| Texas | 106 | 2nd | 21st |
| Florida | 93 | 3rd | 16th |
| New York | 75 | 4th | 18th |
California has more than three times as many Spirit Halloween stores as Arizona and still comes out worse per person. It has 142 stores spread across 106 different cities. Arizona has 45 across just 20, and Phoenix and Tucson hold 16 of them between them.
The bottom of the list
Montana is last in America with 0.89 stores per million, a single store for a state of 1.1 million people.
| State | Stores per million | Stores |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 0.89 | 1 |
| Nebraska | 1.52 | 3 |
| Vermont | 1.55 | 1 |
| Wyoming | 1.72 | 1 |
| Kansas | 2.04 | 6 |
| Mississippi | 2.04 | 6 |
Every state gets at least one. Montana, Vermont and Wyoming get exactly one each.
Every state, ranked
| Rank | State | Stores per million | Stores | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Hampshire | 7.86 | 11 | 1.4M |
| 2 | Arizona | 6.11 | 45 | 7.4M |
| 3 | Delaware | 5.88 | 6 | 1.0M |
| 4 | Colorado | 5.82 | 34 | 5.8M |
| 5 | Idaho | 5.67 | 11 | 1.9M |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 5.47 | 22 | 4.0M |
| 7 | Alaska | 5.46 | 4 | 0.7M |
| 8 | Washington | 5.39 | 42 | 7.8M |
| 9 | North Dakota | 5.13 | 4 | 0.8M |
| 10 | Utah | 5.03 | 17 | 3.4M |
| 11 | Pennsylvania | 4.70 | 61 | 13.0M |
| 12 | Ohio | 4.66 | 55 | 11.8M |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 4.58 | 32 | 7.0M |
| 14 | Oregon | 4.48 | 19 | 4.2M |
| 15 | Connecticut | 4.41 | 16 | 3.6M |
| 16 | Florida | 4.18 | 93 | 22.2M |
| 17 | Illinois | 3.90 | 49 | 12.6M |
| 18 | New York | 3.81 | 75 | 19.7M |
| 19 | Missouri | 3.72 | 23 | 6.2M |
| 20 | California | 3.64 | 142 | 39.0M |
| 21 | Texas | 3.53 | 106 | 30.0M |
| 22 | New Jersey | 3.46 | 32 | 9.3M |
| 23 | Michigan | 3.39 | 34 | 10.0M |
| 24 | Indiana | 3.37 | 23 | 6.8M |
| 25 | New Mexico | 3.32 | 7 | 2.1M |
| 26 | Wisconsin | 3.23 | 19 | 5.9M |
| 27 | Virginia | 3.11 | 27 | 8.7M |
| 28 | Kentucky | 3.10 | 14 | 4.5M |
| 29 | Minnesota | 2.97 | 17 | 5.7M |
| 30 | Maryland | 2.92 | 18 | 6.2M |
| 31 | Maine | 2.88 | 4 | 1.4M |
| 32 | Nevada | 2.83 | 9 | 3.2M |
| 33 | Iowa | 2.81 | 9 | 3.2M |
| 34 | West Virginia | 2.81 | 5 | 1.8M |
| 35 | Hawaii | 2.78 | 4 | 1.4M |
| 36 | Rhode Island | 2.75 | 3 | 1.1M |
| 37 | Louisiana | 2.61 | 12 | 4.6M |
| 38 | Alabama | 2.56 | 13 | 5.1M |
| 39 | Tennessee | 2.55 | 18 | 7.0M |
| 40 | North Carolina | 2.52 | 27 | 10.7M |
| 41 | South Carolina | 2.46 | 13 | 5.3M |
| 42 | Arkansas | 2.30 | 7 | 3.0M |
| 43 | Georgia | 2.29 | 25 | 10.9M |
| 44 | South Dakota | 2.20 | 2 | 0.9M |
| 45 | Mississippi | 2.04 | 6 | 2.9M |
| 46 | Kansas | 2.04 | 6 | 2.9M |
| 47 | Wyoming | 1.72 | 1 | 0.6M |
| 48 | Vermont | 1.55 | 1 | 0.6M |
| 49 | Nebraska | 1.52 | 3 | 2.0M |
| 50 | Montana | 0.89 | 1 | 1.1M |
How we counted
We read all 1,299 Spirit Halloween locations listed on the company’s store locator on July 29, 2026, and divided each state’s store count by its population.
Two caveats. This is a single-day snapshot taken hours after the locator went live, and Spirit says it is opening 1,575 stores this season, so the rankings will shift as the map fills in through August. And Spirit puts stores where it can lease space cheaply and quickly, so a high per-person figure says as much about a state’s vacant retail as it does about how much anyone there likes Halloween.
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Based on a Haunted Attraction Network review of all 1,299 Spirit Halloween locations listed on the company’s store locator on July 29, 2026. Population figures are US Census Bureau estimates. Counts are a snapshot and will change as Spirit adds locations through August.
