Easter facts and stats

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7 years ago

With Easter Sunday around the corner and roughly 80 percent of all Americans expected to observe the holiday in some way, the personal-finance website WalletHub took a close look at 2017’s Best Places to Celebrate Easter to go along with its Easter Facts & Stats infographic.

To find out which cities promise the most egg-citing time on April 16, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared the 100 largest cities across 11 key metrics, ranging from Easter egg-hunt events per capita to Easter weather forecast.

Best Cities for Easter
1	St. Louis, MO	11	St. Paul, MN
2	Birmingham, AL	12	Memphis, TN
3	Pittsburgh, PA	13	Tulsa, OK
4	Cincinnati, OH	14	Las Vegas, NV
5	Orlando, FL	15	Irvine, CA
6	Atlanta, GA	16	Tampa, FL
7	Buffalo, NY	17	Louisville, KY
8	Honolulu, HI	18	Denver, CO
9	Cleveland, OH	19	Baton Rouge, LA
10	Minneapolis, MN	20	Durham, NC

To view the full report and your city’s rank, visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-to-celebrate-easter/19774/

Easter Facts & Stats

1^st – Easter’s rank among the most popular Church days of the year (51.9 percent of adults plan to attend

$152 – Average Easter spending by each person celebrating
52.4 Percent – Share of Americans who say the Easter bunny came before the Easter egg
88.7 Percent – Share of Americans who believe the proper way to eat a chocolate Easter bunny is ears first
81 Percent – Share of parents who steal Easter candy from their kids’ baskets

For the full infographic, visit: https://wallethub.com/blog/easter-facts/19776/