Halloween Candy Is Frightfully More Expensive This Year

The countdown to one of candy's busiest days of the year is on as Halloween is rapidly approaching.

But if you've already started stockpiling your 'fun-sized' treats for a busy night of trick-or-treaters or you're still formulating your game plan, one thing is certain: it's going to cost more for those sweet treats this year.

To show how inflation has impacted the cost of Halloween in 2024, CouponFollow found the average prices of popular candies and calculated how much they had risen compared to last year.

The most expensive Halloween candy this year is 3 Musketeers, which costs an average of 79 cents per ounce — a price increase of 73 percent since 2023.

Another Halloween favorite, Milky Way, has seen it price nearly double in a year, going from 39 cents in 2023 to 77 cents now - an increase of 97 percent.

Two other Halloween stalwarts have seen price hikes of 50 percent or more in 2024:

• Kit Kat: +52%
• Hershey's: +50%

Skittles are the cheapest sweets to hand out to trick-or-treaters, costing just 32 cents per ounce, on average.

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Candy isn't the only Halloween staple that has seen prices skyrocket recently. Pumpkins cost considerably more than they did just a few years ago.

The average pumpkin sold for $3.89 in 2018. Five years later, we were paying nearly 35 percent more - an average of $5.24 in 2023, according to Statista.