If you want to know which houses on your street will actually open the door on Halloween, Nextdoor’s Treat Map is the place to look. The map is live now in the Nextdoor app and at nextdoor.com/treat_map, and neighbors in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. can keep adding their homes to it through Saturday, October 31, 2026, according to Nextdoor’s October 8 announcement.
This is the map’s 14th Halloween, and the first one where you can filter it.
Three filters parents have been waiting for
Until now, the Treat Map worked like a digital porch light: a neighbor dropped a pin, and you knew that house was in. This year you can narrow the map to three kinds of homes: those handing out non-food treats, those with treats for pets, and those that open early, before the older kids take over the sidewalks.
That’s a big deal if your kid has a food allergy, the dog is coming along, or your little one will be done after one block.
The map also shows more than front doors now. Neighbors can pin local places, with labels like “Halloween event” and “Local business,” and in the U.S. Reese’s added its Trick-or-Treatiest Street in America list: 150 streets picked using the brand’s own data and community input.
Four steps to plan your route before Saturday
- Open the Treat Map in the Nextdoor app or at nextdoor.com/treat_map.
- Turn on the filters you need: non-food treats, pet treats or early doors.
- Look for event and business pins if you’d rather trick-or-treat before dark.
- Check again Friday night. Neighbors can add pins until October 31, so your route may change.
Handing out candy yourself? Add a home pin and tag it if you have non-food or pet treats. That’s exactly the kind of house the new filters were built to find.
Why a pin can’t promise the porch light
Pins are optional, and Nextdoor says it doesn’t verify what people post. A pin tells you a neighbor plans to hand out treats, not that the light will be on at 7 p.m.
If your neighborhood looks empty on the map, check your city’s website for official Halloween events. New York City, for example, opened a record 160 car-free streets and plazas for its Trick-or-Streets program this October and said it would hand out 75,000 pieces of candy.
Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, with no school the next morning. Pull up the map before the weekend, save a few pins, and spend the night at the doors that are actually open.
