Home / Life Favorite Halloween candy by state: What your trick-or-treater will tote home We have some questions for you folks in North Dakota and Indiana. ? By Emily Glover October 19, 2017 @crystalmariesing/Twenty20 Parents in the Northeast should expect to find lots of sour Halloween candy when scavenging through their little trick-or-treaters’ bags. Parents on the West Coast are in better luck if they are chocoholics. And it should be no huge surprise that families in North Dakota appreciate the body-warming properties of their favorite Halloween candy, Hot Tamales. This sweet information comes from CandyStore.com, which just released an interactive map of the best-selling Halloween candy in each of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia!) based on 10 years of data. Source: CandyStore.com. Here’s how families around the country like to satisfy their Halloween candy sugar craving: Alabama: Candy corn Alaska: Twix Arizona: Snickers Arkansas: Jolly Ranchers California: M&Ms Colorado: Milky Way Connecticut: Almond Joy D.C.: M&Ms Delaware: Lifesavers Florida: Skittles Georgia: Swedish Fish Hawaii: Skittles Idaho: Candy Corn Illinois: Sour Patch Kids Indiana: Hot Tamales Iowa: Reese’s Kansas: Reese’s Kentucky: Tootsie Pops Louisiana: Lemonhead Maine: Sour Patch Kids Maryland: Milky Way Massachusetts: Sour Patch Kids Michigan: Candy Corn Minnesota: Tootsie Pops Mississippi: 3 Musketeers Missouri: Milky Way Montana: Double Bubble Nebraska: Sour Patch Kids Nevada: Hershey’s Kisses New Hampshire: Snickers New Jersey: Skittles New Mexico: Candy Corn New York: Sour Patch Kids North Carolina: M&Ms North Dakota: Hot Tamales Ohio: Blow Pops Oklahoma: Snickers Oregon: Reese’s Pennsylvania: M&Ms Rhode Island: Candy Corn South Carolina: Candy Corn South Dakota: Starbursts Tennessee: Tootsie Pops Texas: Starbursts Utah: Jolly Ranchers Vermont: Milky Way Virginia: Snickers Washington: Tootsie Pops West Virginia: Double Bubble Wisconsin: Starbursts Wyoming: Reese’s With shoppers preparing to drop an estimated $2.7 billion on Halloween candy, that sure buys a lot of M&Ms and Starbursts—so just be sure to limit yourself during those late-night raids of your kid’s trick-or-treating loot. ? Related Stories Real Feeding Stories from Real Mamas Breastfeeding is a marathon and women’s bodies pay the price Motherly Stories Having a second baby healed me Pregnancy Products We tried the SKIMS maternity line—here’s what we thought