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Neighbors Across the Country Use Nextdoor to Plan for Halloween Tonight
We released the Nextdoor Treat Map a few weeks ago and the response from neighbors across the country has been incredible!
From neighborhoods in San Francisco to San Diego to Tampa to Minneapolis, neighbors across the U.S. are using the Nextdoor Treat Map today to have a fun, safe, and efficient Halloween.
Every day we’re honored to be helping neighbors connect in new ways, especially for holidays like Halloween.
Happy Halloween!
Find the Hot Spots for Trick-or-Treating in Your City with Nextdoor’s Heat Maps
Neighbors across the country are already using Nextdoor’s Treat Map to find the best streets for trick-or-treating in their neighborhoods, but have you ever wondered what the best trick-or-treating spots are in your city?
We’re excited to announce that we’ve taken the Treat Map one step further and created heat maps for trick-or-treating in select cities across the United States.
The trick-or-treating heat maps are generated based on the aggregate responses from Nextdoor members across 44,000 neighborhoods. To preserve the privacy of the our members, the heat maps do not zoom all the way down to street level. Using a gradient of green to candy-corn orange, the trick-or-treating heat maps quickly show the hot spots for candy in cities across the United States.
A snapshot of the best areas for trick-or-treating in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
A closer look at San Francisco’s neighborhoods.
Now, if you’re particularly adventurous, you can use the Treat Map to make a beeline to the candy in your neighborhood and the heat map to find the other neighborhoods to head to before Halloween night is over.
This is just another way that we’re helping neighbors celebrate old traditions with new technology. We hope you enjoy the candy!
You can find more information on the Nextdoor Treat Map here. Are you a reporter interested in writing about how Nextdoor is helping neighbors across the country celebrate Halloween? Contact us here.
Trick-or-Treating Safety Tips
Halloween is a holiday that’s beloved by many in neighborhoods across the country, but it can also be a dangerous night. From kids running between streets and neighborhoods in the dark, people driving home from parties, and hundreds of people giving out candy to children, the holiday can sometimes hold more tricks than treats.
Here are a few tips from the Center for Disease Control on how to have a safe Halloween:
- Avoid trick-or-treating alone. Walk in groups or with a trusted adult.
- Hold a flashlight while trick-or-treating to help you see and others see you.
- Look both ways before crossing the street. Use established crosswalks wherever possible.
- Only walk on sidewalks whenever possible, or on the far edge of the road facing traffic to stay safe.
- Enter homes only if you’re with a trusted adult and only visit well-lit houses.
And of course, you can use the Nextdoor Treat Map to see who is giving out candy in your neighborhood, plan your route ahead of time, and even print out a map to make sure you stay on track.
From all of us at Nextdoor, have a very happy and safe Halloween!
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