Halloween by the numbers

With total Halloween spending expected to reach nearly $8.4 billion this year - $1.5 billion more than in 2015 - the personal-finance website WalletHub released its annual Halloween report which includes fun and interesting facts about the holiday.

Here are a few fun facts.

• $8.38 billion: Projected Halloween-related spending this year ($3.14 billion on costumes).

• $547.9 million: Halloween candy sales (fourth biggest candy-selling holiday).

• $300+ million: Annual revenue from ticket sales to haunted attractions (80 percent of which are charity-operated).

• 72 percent: Share of parents who say they steal Halloween candy from their kids.