The main table includes all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2024-25. Thus, they exclude:
Jeopardy! is continuing the practice, revived in Season 37, of allowing contestants to be introduced as "originally from" a location other than their current residence, which had been ended in 2016. Those introductions are not separated out in these statistics.
What's here:
(Credits: Zap2it & TitanTV for TV schedules for each market; ThinkTV for a listing of Canadian market sizes, enabling me to rank them properly with the U.S. markets; and the U.S. Census Bureau for KML files of county boundaries for use with Google Earth.)
Ranks represent market size estimates for 2024-25.
Updated through Week 10 of Season 41 (2024-11-15).
Rank | Market | Station | Players |
---|---|---|---|
1 | New York | WABC | 15 |
9 | Boston (Manchester) | WBZ | 5 |
— | Toronto / Hamilton | — | 4 |
8 | Washington (Hagerstown) | WJLA | 4 |
22 | Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) | WTVD | 4 |
13 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 3 |
33 | Kansas City | WDAF | 3 |
34 | Austin | KXAN | 3 |
2 | Los Angeles | KABC | 2 |
3 | Chicago | WLS | 2 |
5 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 2 |
10 | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose | KGO | 2 |
14 | Detroit | WDIV | 2 |
19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 2 |
32 | Hartford & New Haven | WTNH | 2 |
— | London / Woodstock / Wingham | — | 2 |
56 | Richmond-Petersburg | WRIC | 2 |
57 | Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton) | WALA | 2 |
62 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy | WTEN | 2 |
77 | Madison | WMTV | 2 |
7 | Atlanta | WXIA | 1 |
— | Montréal / Laval | — | 1 |
16 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | KARE | 1 |
— | Vancouver / Victoria | — | 1 |
20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 1 |
23 | Portland, OR | KATU | 1 |
24 | St. Louis | KSDK | 1 |
25 | Indianapolis | WTHR | 1 |
27 | Pittsburgh | WPXI | 1 |
29 | Baltimore | WBFF | 1 |
30 | San Diego | KNSD | 1 |
35 | Columbus, OH | WBNS | 1 |
37 | Cincinnati | WXIX | 1 |
40 | Las Vegas | KLAS | 1 |
43 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 1 |
48 | Albuquerque-Santa Fe | KRQE | 1 |
— | Ottawa / Gatineau | — | 1 |
52 | Providence-New Bedford | WPRI | 1 |
58 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 1 |
65 | Tucson (Sierra Vista) | KGUN | 1 |
69 | Honolulu | KGMB | 1 |
73 | Omaha | WOWT | 1 |
82 | Charleston-Huntington | WSAZ | 1 |
85 | Charleston, SC | WCBD | 1 |
87 | Colorado Springs-Pueblo | KKTV | 1 |
88 | Syracuse | WSYT | 1 |
100 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 1 |
— | Halifax / Dartmouth | — | 1 |
112 | Johnstown-Altoona-State College | WATM | 1 |
113 | Fargo-Valley City | KXJB-LD | 1 |
123 | Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo | KSBY | 1 |
128 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 1 |
130 | Corpus Christi | KZTV | 1 |
162 | Binghamton | WIVT | 1 |
— | Dawson Creek | — | 1 |
State / Province | Players |
---|---|
New York | 11 |
California | 8 |
Ontario | 7 |
Connecticut | 5 |
Massachusetts | 5 |
Michigan | 4 |
North Carolina | 4 |
Ohio | 4 |
Pennsylvania | 4 |
Texas | 4 |
Virginia | 4 |
Missouri | 3 |
New Jersey | 3 |
Washington | 3 |
British Columbia | 2 |
Florida | 2 |
Illinois | 2 |
Maryland | 2 |
Wisconsin | 2 |
Arizona | 1 |
Arkansas | 1 |
Colorado | 1 |
District of Columbia | 1 |
Georgia | 1 |
Hawaii | 1 |
Indiana | 1 |
Kansas | 1 |
Minnesota | 1 |
Nebraska | 1 |
Nevada | 1 |
New Hampshire | 1 |
New Mexico | 1 |
North Dakota | 1 |
Nova Scotia | 1 |
Oregon | 1 |
Quebec | 1 |
Rhode Island | 1 |
South Carolina | 1 |
Vermont | 1 |
West Virginia | 1 |