The main table includes all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2020-21. Thus, they don't take into account:
Beginning in Week 3, Jeopardy! revived the practice of allowing contestants to be introduced as "originally from" a location other than their current residence, which had been ended in 2016. At least for now, this table will not separate out based on the style of introduction; wherever a player is billed as being from, that's what ends up in the table.
What's here:
(Credits: Zap2it & TitanTV for TV schedules for each market; John Coryat (yes, that's actually the last name) for ZIP code maps; ThinkTV for a listing of Canadian market sizes, enabling me to rank them properly with the U.S. markets; and Randy Majors for a Google Maps adaptation containing county lines.)
The tables below reflect updated market size estimates for 2020–21; those figures are larger for all markets on account of Nielsen updating its methodology to account for broadband-only (BBO) homes.
Updated through Week 34 of Season 37 (2021-05-07).
| Rank | Market | Station | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Los Angeles | KABC | 86 |
| 6 | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose | KGO | 37 |
| 1 | New York | WABC | 24 |
| 3 | Chicago | WLS | 11 |
| 9 | Washington (Hagerstown) | WJLA | 9 |
| 27 | San Diego | KNSD | 9 |
| 10 | Boston (Manchester) | WBZ | 8 |
| 11 | Phoenix (Prescott) | KTVK | 8 |
| 21 | Portland, OR | KATU | 8 |
| 4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 7 |
| 14 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | KARE | 6 |
| 15 | Detroit | WDIV | 6 |
| 20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 6 |
| 40 | Las Vegas | KLAS | 5 |
| 12 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 4 |
| — | Toronto / Hamilton | — | 3 |
| 7 | Atlanta | WXIA | 3 |
| 19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 3 |
| 24 | Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) | WTVD | 3 |
| 33 | Columbus, OH | WBNS | 3 |
| 46 | Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News | WVEC | 3 |
| 121 | Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo | KSBY | 3 |
| 16 | Denver | KDVR | 2 |
| 32 | Hartford & New Haven | WTNH | 2 |
| 49 | Louisville | WLKY | 2 |
| 65 | Dayton | WDTN | 2 |
| 78 | Portland-Auburn | WMTW | 2 |
| 81 | Madison | WMTV | 2 |
| 87 | Syracuse | WSYT | 2 |
| 115 | Lansing | WILX | 2 |
| 124 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 2 |
| 125 | Bakersfield | KBAK | 2 |
| 5 | Dallas-Fort Worth | KTXA | 1 |
| 8 | Houston | KTRK | 1 |
| 13 | Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota) | WTSP | 1 |
| 17 | Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne | WFTV | 1 |
| 18 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale | WPLG | 1 |
| — | Puerto Rico | — | 1 |
| 26 | Pittsburgh | WPXI | 1 |
| 29 | Nashville | WZTV | 1 |
| 31 | San Antonio | KENS | 1 |
| 35 | Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson | WLOS | 1 |
| 38 | Austin | KXAN | 1 |
| 39 | West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce | WPBF | 1 |
| 41 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 1 |
| 42 | Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York | WHP | 1 |
| 48 | Albuquerque-Santa Fe | KRQE | 1 |
| 50 | New Orleans | WVUE | 1 |
| — | London / Waterloo / Wingham | — | 1 |
| 52 | Providence-New Bedford | WPRI | 1 |
| 53 | Buffalo | WIVB | 1 |
| 56 | Richmond-Petersburg | WRIC | 1 |
| 59 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 1 |
| 61 | Tulsa | KTUL | 1 |
| 63 | Lexington | WKYT | 1 |
| 66 | Spokane | KHQ | 1 |
| 80 | Toledo | WTOL | 1 |
| 82 | Colorado Springs-Pueblo | KKTV | 1 |
| 93 | El Paso (Las Cruces) | KDBC | 1 |
| 94 | Baton Rouge | WBRZ | 1 |
| 96 | Burlington-Plattsburgh | WPTZ | 1 |
| 110 | Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches) | KLTV | 1 |
| 113 | Eugene | KVAL | 1 |
| 123 | Peoria-Bloomington | WMBD | 1 |
| 135 | Columbia-Jefferson City | KOMU | 1 |
| 141 | Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) | KFYR | 1 |
| 142 | Topeka | KTKA | 1 |
| 146 | Palm Springs | KMIR | 1 |
| 149 | Wichita Falls & Lawton | KAUZ | 1 |
| 160 | Gainesville | WGFL | 1 |
| 161 | Missoula | KPAX | 1 |
| 167 | Billings | KTVQ | 1 |
| 171 | Utica | WKTV | 1 |
| 176 | Harrisonburg | WHSV | 1 |
| 183 | Marquette | WLUC-DT2 | 1 |
| 184 | Bend, OR | KOHD | 1 |
| 188 | Lafayette, IN | WLFI | 1 |
| State / Province | Players |
|---|---|
| California | 146 |
| New York | 19 |
| Illinois | 11 |
| Michigan | 11 |
| New Jersey | 11 |
| Virginia | 11 |
| Oregon | 9 |
| Arizona | 8 |
| Massachusetts | 8 |
| Ohio | 8 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 |
| Texas | 7 |
| Minnesota | 6 |
| Florida | 5 |
| Nevada | 5 |
| Washington | 5 |
| North Carolina | 4 |
| Ontario | 4 |
| Colorado | 3 |
| Georgia | 3 |
| Kentucky | 3 |
| Connecticut | 2 |
| Indiana | 2 |
| Louisiana | 2 |
| Maine | 2 |
| Maryland | 2 |
| Montana | 2 |
| Wisconsin | 2 |
| Arkansas | 1 |
| District of Columbia | 1 |
| Idaho | 1 |
| Kansas | 1 |
| Missouri | 1 |
| New Mexico | 1 |
| North Dakota | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 1 |
| Tennessee | 1 |
| Vermont | 1 |