B.C. Treat Count 2022: Find the best neighbourhoods for maxing out on Halloween candy

There are always some neighbourhoods with better decorationsand, crucially, more candy on Halloween.

Do you think your 'hood can stand on its ownwiththe most generous andsought-after spooky-season vibes in all of B.C.?

Let the rest of the province know by filling out this form to report the number of trick-or-treaters who came to your house.

Count the number of costumed visitors that came knocking on your door, tell us what you gave them, and show us how you prepared for their arrival.

CBC British Columbia and the SFU City Program, which promotes citizen participation in civic issues,have teamed up once again to track the neighbourhoods with the most visitors on Halloween night.

"That's the spirit of civic engagement," said Andy Yan, director of the city program at SFU. "It's how the spirit of civic engagement embracesparticular communities."

In 2021, Yan saidthere was an increase in trick-or-treaterscompared to the previous year, and he forecasts an even bigger increase in 2022 as most pandemic restrictions have been axed.

"We had a certain level of creativity when [the pandemic] came in, through the candy chute," he said. "I was still hoping that somebody would show up with the candy catapult ... the treat trebuchet."

How to participate

Fill out thisform to report the number of trick-or-treaters who came to your house.

Then, watch as a colour-coded map reveals the Halloween hotspots and no-shows across B.C. on Monday night.

To get an idea of how it works, you can view last year's results at this link.

Yan said that historically, theDouglas Park neighbourhood in Vancouver and the Queen's Park neighbourhood in New Westminsterhaveshown out for Halloween, and he's interested to see how communities that have filled out in recent years do.

This year, we're also including a question about inflation, and how it's affecting your Halloween in 2022.

Fill outthe surveyand watch for a map to update with the most haunted houses

Thismap will be updated throughoutHalloween night and into Tuesday

On Tuesday, we'll be able to tell you where the action was and which of the neighbourhoods wereghost towns.