Sydney’s best suburbs for Halloween trick-or-treaters to maximise lollies per step

New analysis reveals the Sydney suburbs tired parents should hit first to maximise their kids lolly-to-step ratio. New analysis reveals Sydney is home to three of the best suburbs in Australia for parents with keen trick-or-treaters looking to maximise their lolly-to-step ratio. For kids and teens, Halloween conjures images of running around in costumes after bedtime and gorging on lollies until you’re sick (or at least until your parents try to stop you from being sick). But for parents, it can be an arduous journey fraught with hyperactive kids barely sticking to the path while being encouraged to begrudgingly use say please and thank you. MORE: ‘un-Australian’: Mum faces Halloween display ban Newtown is Australia’s most densely packed suburb with a new front door every 21 metres. The average Aussie kid lives in a neighbourhood with 744 homes per square kilometre (sqkm) and a new front door roughly every 37m. New research looked at the average number of homes packed into each sqkm and found the best suburbs for parents looking to avoid a long walk this Halloween (‘Step’-tember is over now anyway). The inner Sydney suburb of Newtown came out on top with 2,350 homes per sqkm, putti...