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 | ||
Easter Facts & Stats
- 1st – 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
Source: WalletHub
