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NEW YORK (AP) — Sherri Jenkins is a Halloween person by default. She lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, a rural town where much of the original horror film “Friday the 13th” was filmed.

This history is, of course, a big draw for tourists, but the town and its residents are all about promoting Halloween as well as the parade and other activities. Jenkins, 69, keeps up with that vibe, hosting friends and handing out candy to 1,000 or more trick-or-treaters each year.

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She’s not alone. About two-thirds of U.S. adults will celebrate Halloween in some way this year, with parents of children under 18 more likely to have plans to do so, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

“We’re definitely in a party place,” Jenkins said, noting that she’s not on board with healthier alternatives to candy. “I did it one year when I got raisins, and everyone was making fun of me.”

Jenkins decorates her yard and has dressed her dog in a butterfly costume. She usually puts together an outfit for herself at the last minute.

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It’s the majority when it comes to Halloween candy. Only 5% of US adults say they would hand out healthy snacks instead of candy to children, according to the poll conducted October 9-13.

But Jenkins will be in the minority if the butterfly costume makes it to her dog: Only 9% of U.S. adults say they would dress a pet in a costume.

Parents are likely to celebrate

About 8 in 10 parents of a child under 18 say they will do something to celebrate the holiday, compared with about 6 in 10 adults without young children.

Parents are more likely than Americans overall to say they would take their children trick-or-treating and dress their children in costumes, and are also more likely to say they would wear a costume themselves.

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In Kingman, Arizona, Jessica Byrd, 34, said Halloween is her favorite holiday. Her 15-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter were on board.

“I love the free candy, of course, and everyone is so nice to each other and welcoming Halloween,” Bird said.

The three will dress up and trick-or-treat together. Bird chose Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Her teenage son will play Snorlax from Pokemon and her daughter will play Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.

Fred Juncas, 34, in Durham, North Carolina, has a 3-year-old daughter. They’ll also be trick-or-treating – Dad dressed as Abby Saga from “KPop Demon Hunters” and his little one as a Pokemon character.

“We went last year and I loved it,” Juncas said. “That’s all I’ve been hearing since May: Halloween, Halloween.”

He has no plans to hand out candy, but about a third of U.S. adults say they will. A similar percentage, 31%, said they would watch a scary movie.

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Back in Blairstown, Jenkins enjoys watching horror when she’s in the mood. “It gets your heart rate up but it’s not real, so you feel safe,” she said.

Big Halloween fans

Byrd, in Arizona, is a huge fan of Halloween, decorating the inside of her home with witches, skeletons and bats year-round.

“It’s a creative and beautiful thing to express that creativity,” she said of the holiday.

About 3 in 10 U.S. adults say they will display Halloween decorations in their homes or yards, and about a quarter will carve pumpkins.

Kathy Rice, 75, in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a huge Halloween person. She fondly remembers the holiday from her childhood.

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“I come from a large family and we had a big neighborhood with a lot of kids,” she said. “Everyone made a lot of Halloween.”

Cedar loves decorating for Halloween inside and out. There is a big furry spider in front of her house. She goes with the artificial pumpkins into the yard, including two large pumpkins with lights. There is a huge two-legged cauldron with a sign on it: “Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet!”

She and her neighbor have a Halloween tradition for themselves. They leave candy for each other in her cauldron during the spooky season.

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“So far this year I’ve left her some magazines, cake and a few decorations,” Rice said. “She left me a cookie, some bright eyeballs, and a clip of my hair with really weird Halloween hands.”

Halloween, but not so much

Not everyone enjoys Halloween, but they do enjoy it nonetheless. Karalyn Kiessling, 31, of South Lyon, Michigan, puts her husband and herself in this category.

“We’re moderate people on Halloween,” she said. “We like to dress up and go to Halloween parties with our friends, but we don’t have kids yet, so we’re not really into that. We don’t decorate our whole house or anything, but we don’t cancel that for later.”

Kiessling had just undergone surgery that left a scar on her neck. “I’m thinking about being Frankenstein’s bride this year,” she said with a laugh.

While the couple doesn’t watch horror movies to celebrate Halloween, they have another tradition along those lines: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

“It’s fun and it’s fun. It’s a cult classic,” Kiessling said. “We love it.”

Sanders reported from Washington.

The AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults was conducted Oct. 9-13, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.