Bellevue is Kentucky’s top spot for trick-or-treating, according to a new study measuring how closely homes are packed together in neighborhoods where children live.
Overall, Kentucky comes 41st of the 50 states for trick-or-treating. The typical Kentucky child aged 5 to 14 lives in a neighborhood with 135 single-family houses in every square mile, which would put a front door roughly every 450 feet if they were spaced evenly.
The best ZIP code for trick-or-treating in Kentucky is 41073 in Bellevue, with 2,304 houses per square mile, a door about every 110 feet. Covington is the state’s densest city or town of 25,000 people or more, with 925 houses per square mile.
The figures come from web SEO experts at seobacklinks.com, who used the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 to count the single-family houses in every neighborhood in America, detached homes plus attached rowhouses and townhouses, and divided each count by the neighborhood’s land area.
Apartments and mobile homes were not counted as houses, and lakes and rivers were not counted as land. Each state is ranked by the house density of the neighborhood (census tract) where its typical child aged 5 to 14 lives, so half of the state’s children live in denser neighborhoods and half in sparser ones. ZIP codes and cities are ranked by houses per square mile of land, counting ZIP codes with at least 5,000 residents, 1,000 houses and half a square mile of land, and cities with at least 25,000 residents.
Covington was ranked second in the state with 2,290 houses per square mile.
