The tables include all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! between September 12, 2016 and June 12, 2020. As such, the following events are excluded:
Contestants in the 2017, 2018, and 2020 College Championships are credited in the main table according to their given hometowns, not the location of their schools.
What's here:
The total number of players first appearing in these four seasons is 1,647. (1,497 in regular play, 45 in College Championships, 60 in Teachers Tournaments, and 45 in Teen Tournaments.)
Aggregated, the percentage of contestants from the ten largest United States media markets is 50.5% (831/1647) overall, and 51.2% (766/1497) for regular play only. For the "media center" markets of New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, the percentages are 29.8% (490/1647) overall, and 30.7% (460/1497) in regular play.
A side-by-side comparison of players by media market data for Seasons 33, 34, 35, and 36.
(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 Ads for Carts for the lookup tools I use for both American and Canadian DMAs.)
Market size ranks are based on 2019-20 Nielsen estimates.
Rank | Market | Station | Players | Regular | College | Teachers | Teen |
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1 | New York | WABC | 211 | 195 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
2 | Los Angeles | KABC | 136 | 132 | 2 | 2 | |
3 | Chicago | WLS | 76 | 71 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
— | Toronto / Hamilton / Niagara Falls | — | 16 | 16 | |||
4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 60 | 54 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
5 | Dallas-Fort Worth | KTXA | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
6 | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose | KGO | 65 | 57 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
7 | Washington (Hagerstown) | WJLA | 143 | 133 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
8 | Houston | KTRK | 21 | 18 | 2 | 1 | |
9 | Boston (Manchester) | WBZ | 71 | 66 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
10 | Atlanta | WXIA | 34 | 29 | 3 | 2 | |
11 | Phoenix (Prescott) | KTVK | 12 | 12 | |||
12 | Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota) | WTSP | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||
13 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 45 | 41 | 3 | 1 | |
14 | Detroit | WDIV | 25 | 23 | 2 | ||
15 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | KARE | 22 | 21 | 1 | ||
16 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale | WPLG | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
17 | Denver | KDVR | 45 | 43 | 1 | 1 | |
18 | Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne | WFTV | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
— | Vancouver / Victoria | — | 8 | 8 | |||
19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 13 | 12 | 1 | ||
20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 5 | 5 | |||
21 | Charlotte | WCNC | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
22 | Portland, OR | KATU | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
23 | St. Louis | KSDK | 16 | 16 | |||
24 | Pittsburgh | WPXI | 14 | 14 | |||
25 | Indianapolis | WTHR | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | |
26 | Baltimore | WBFF | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | |
27 | Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) | WTVD | 12 | 12 | |||
28 | Nashville | WZTV | 11 | 9 | 2 | ||
29 | San Diego | KNSD | 22 | 19 | 1 | 2 | |
30 | Salt Lake City | KJZZ | 11 | 10 | 1 | ||
31 | San Antonio | KENS | 4 | 4 | |||
32 | Kansas City | KSHB | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
33 | Hartford & New Haven | WTNH | 20 | 20 | |||
34 | Columbus, OH | WBNS | 14 | 14 | |||
35 | Milwaukee | WDJT | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
36 | West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce | WPBF | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
37 | Cincinnati | WXIX | 9 | 9 | |||
38 | Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson | WLOS | 3 | 3 | |||
39 | Las Vegas | KLAS | 3 | 3 | |||
40 | Austin | KXAN | 20 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
— | Kitchener / Waterloo | — | 1 | 1 | |||
41 | Jacksonville | WTLV | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||
42 | Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News | WVEC | 3 | 3 | |||
43 | Oklahoma City | KFOR | 5 | 5 | |||
44 | Birmingham (Anniston & Tuscaloosa) | WIAT | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
45 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 4 | 4 | |||
46 | Albuquerque-Santa Fe | KRQE | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||
47 | Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York | WHP | 4 | 4 | |||
48 | Louisville | WLKY | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
49 | Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem | WFMY | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
50 | New Orleans | WVUE | 8 | 8 | |||
— | Ottawa / Gatineau | — | 11 | 11 | |||
51 | Memphis | WREG | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
— | Calgary / Lethbridge | — | 4 | 4 | |||
52 | Buffalo | WIVB | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
53 | Fort Myers-Naples | WBBH | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
54 | Richmond-Petersburg | WRIC | 6 | 6 | |||
55 | Fresno-Visalia | KFSN | 1 | 1 | |||
56 | Providence-New Bedford | WPRI | 6 | 6 | |||
57 | Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton) | WALA | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
58 | Tulsa | KTUL | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||
— | Winnipeg / Brandon | — | 1 | 1 | |||
59 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy | WTEN | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||
60 | Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Hazleton | WBRE | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
61 | Knoxville | WBIR | 3 | 3 | |||
62 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
63 | Dayton | WDTN | |||||
64 | Lexington | WKYT | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
65 | Tucson (Sierra Vista) | KGUN | 7 | 6 | 1 | ||
66 | Honolulu | KGMB | 2 | 2 | |||
67 | Green Bay-Appleton | WLUK | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
68 | Des Moines-Ames | WHO | 1 | 1 | |||
69 | Roanoke-Lynchburg | WDBJ | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
70 | Spokane | KHQ | 5 | 5 | |||
71 | Omaha | WOWT | 3 | 3 | |||
72 | Wichita-Hutchinson Plus | KSNW | |||||
73 | Springfield, MO | KSPR-LD | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
74 | Charleston-Huntington | WSAZ | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
75 | Columbia, SC | WOLO | 5 | 5 | |||
76 | Rochester, NY | WROC | 4 | 4 | |||
77 | Flint-Saginaw-Bay City | WNEM | 1 | 1 | |||
78 | Huntsville-Decatur (Florence) | WAAY | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||
79 | Portland-Auburn | WMTW | 9 | 9 | |||
80 | Toledo | WTOL | 3 | 3 | |||
81 | Madison | WMTV | 2 | 2 | |||
82 | Waco-Temple-Bryan | KCEN | 1 | 1 | |||
83 | Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen | KGBT | |||||
84 | Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg | WPSD | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
85 | Colorado Springs-Pueblo | KKTV | 2 | 2 | |||
86 | Shreveport | KTBS | 1 | 1 | |||
87 | Syracuse | WSYT | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||
88 | Champaign & Springfield-Decatur | WAND | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
89 | Savannah | WSAV | 2 | 2 | |||
90 | Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City & Dubuque | KWWL | 2 | 2 | |||
91 | Charleston, SC | WCBD | 2 | 2 | |||
92 | Chattanooga | WTVC | 2 | 2 | |||
93 | El Paso (Las Cruces) | KDBC | |||||
94 | Baton Rouge | WBRZ | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
95 | Jackson, MS | WLBT | 3 | 3 | |||
96 | Burlington-Plattsburgh | WPTZ | 13 | 12 | 1 | ||
97 | Myrtle Beach-Florence | WBTW | 3 | 3 | |||
98 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
99 | Tri-Cities, TN-VA | WCYB | |||||
100 | Greenville-New Bern-Washington | WITN | |||||
101 | Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers | KFSM | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
— | Barrie / Orillia | — | 1 | 1 | |||
102 | Boise | KBOI | 2 | 2 | |||
103 | Davenport-Rock Island-Moline | KWQC | 1 | 1 | |||
104 | Reno | KOLO | 2 | 2 | |||
105 | Evansville | WFIE | |||||
106 | Johnstown-Altoona-State College | WATM | 3 | 3 | |||
107 | Lincoln & Hastings-Kearney | KOLN | 3 | 3 | |||
108 | Augusta-Aiken | WRDW | |||||
109 | Tallahassee-Thomasville | WCTV | 2 | 2 | |||
110 | Fort Wayne | WANE | 3 | 3 | |||
111 | Springfield-Holyoke | WWLP | 6 | 6 | |||
112 | Lansing | WILX | 6 | 6 | |||
113 | Sioux Falls (Mitchell) | KSFY | 1 | 1 | |||
114 | Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches) | KLTV | 1 | 1 | |||
115 | Youngstown | WKBN | 1 | 1 | |||
116 | Fargo-Valley City | KVLY-DT2 | |||||
117 | Eugene | KVAL | 2 | 2 | |||
118 | Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick | KNDO | |||||
119 | Macon | WMAZ | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
120 | Peoria-Bloomington | WMBD | |||||
121 | Traverse City-Cadillac | WPBN | 1 | 1 | |||
122 | Montgomery-Selma | WAKA | |||||
— | St. John's / Corner Brook | — | 1 | 1 | |||
123 | Lafayette, LA | KATC | 2 | 2 | |||
124 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 1 | 1 | |||
125 | Bakersfield | KBAK | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
126 | Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo | KSBY | 5 | 5 | |||
— | Saint John / Fredericton / Moncton | — | 1 | 1 | |||
127 | Wilmington | WECT | 1 | 1 | |||
128 | Corpus Christi | KZTV | |||||
129 | La Crosse-Eau Claire | WEAU | |||||
130 | Columbus, GA (Opelika, AL) | WRBL | |||||
131 | Chico-Redding | KNVN | |||||
132 | Amarillo | KFDA | |||||
133 | Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston | WTVA | |||||
134 | Wausau-Rhinelander | WJFW | |||||
135 | Medford-Klamath Falls | KDRV | 1 | 1 | |||
136 | Salisbury | WBOC-DT2 | |||||
137 | Columbia-Jefferson City | KOMU | |||||
138 | Rockford | WREX | 2 | 2 | |||
139 | Duluth-Superior, WI | KBJR-DT2 | |||||
140 | Monroe-El Dorado | KNOE | |||||
141 | Palm Springs | KMIR | |||||
142 | Lubbock | KCBD | 1 | 1 | |||
143 | Beaumont-Port Arthur | KBTV | |||||
144 | Topeka | KTKA | |||||
145 | Odessa-Midland | KMID | 1 | 1 | |||
146 | Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) | KFYR | 1 | 1 | |||
147 | Wichita Falls & Lawton | KAUZ | 2 | 2 | |||
148 | Sioux City | KMEG | |||||
149 | Panama City | WJHG | |||||
150 | Rochester-Mason City-Austin | KIMT | |||||
151 | Anchorage | KYUR | 2 | 2 | |||
152 | Erie | WSEE | |||||
153 | Joplin-Pittsburg | KSNF | 1 | 1 | |||
154 | Albany, GA | WSWG | |||||
155 | Biloxi-Gulfport | WLOX-DT2 | |||||
156 | Gainesville | WGFL | 4 | 4 | |||
157 | Wheeling-Steubenville, OH | WTOV | |||||
158 | Sherman-Ada | KTEN-DT3 | |||||
159 | Bangor | WVII | 1 | 1 | |||
160 | Terre Haute | WTWO | 2 | 2 | |||
161 | Binghamton | WIVT | 2 | 2 | |||
162 | Idaho Falls-Pocatello (Jackson) | KPVI | 1 | 1 | |||
163 | Missoula | KPAX | 1 | 1 | |||
164 | Abilene-Sweetwater | KTAB | |||||
165 | Yuma-El Centro, CA | KYMA | |||||
166 | Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill | WVNS | |||||
167 | Hattiesburg-Laurel | WDAM | |||||
168 | Billings | KTVQ | |||||
169 | Rapid City | KOTA | 1 | 1 | |||
170 | Lake Charles | KVHP | |||||
171 | Dothan | WRGX | 1 | 1 | |||
172 | Utica | WKTV | |||||
173 | Clarksburg-Weston | WBOY | |||||
174 | Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk | KHQA | |||||
175 | Harrisonburg | WHSV | 1 | 1 | |||
176 | Jackson, TN | WBBJ | 1 | 1 | |||
177 | Bowling Green | WNKY | |||||
178 | Alexandria, LA | KALB | |||||
178 | Elmira (Corning) | WETM | |||||
180 | Marquette | WLUC-DT2 | 1 | 1 | |||
181 | Watertown | WWNY | |||||
182 | Charlottesville | WVIR | 7 | 7 | |||
183 | Jonesboro | KAIT-DT2 | |||||
184 | Laredo | KYLX-LD | |||||
185 | Bend, OR | KOHD | 1 | 1 | |||
186 | Butte-Bozeman | KXLF | 2 | 2 | |||
187 | Lafayette, IN | WLFI | 4 | 4 | |||
188 | Grand Junction-Montrose | KKCO | |||||
189 | Lima | WLIO | |||||
190 | Meridian | WTOK | |||||
191 | Twin Falls | KMVT | 1 | 1 | |||
— | Charlottetown | — | 1 | 1 | |||
192 | Great Falls | KRTV | |||||
193 | Parkersburg | WTAP | 1 | 1 | |||
194 | Greenwood-Greenville | WXVT-LD | 1 | 1 | |||
195 | San Angelo | KLST | |||||
196 | Cheyenne-Scottsbluff, NE | KGWN | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
197 | Eureka | KAEF | |||||
198 | Mankato | KEYC-DT2 | |||||
199 | Casper-Riverton | KCWY | 2 | 2 | |||
200 | St. Joseph | KQTV | |||||
201 | Ottumwa-Kirksville | KTVO | 1 | 1 | |||
202 | Victoria | KXTS-LD | |||||
203 | Fairbanks | KATN | |||||
204 | Zanesville | ||||||
205 | Helena | KXLH-LD | |||||
206 | Presque Isle | WAGM | |||||
207 | Juneau | KJUD | |||||
208 | Alpena | WBKB | |||||
209 | North Platte | KNPL-LD | |||||
210 | Glendive |
State / Province | Players | Regular | College | Teachers | Teen |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | 15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Alaska | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alberta | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arizona | 19 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Arkansas | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
British Columbia | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
California | 238 | 221 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Colorado | 46 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Connecticut | 29 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Delaware | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
District of Columbia | 58 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Florida | 55 | 41 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
Georgia | 39 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Hawaii | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Idaho | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Illinois | 83 | 76 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Indiana | 27 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Iowa | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kansas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kentucky | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Louisiana | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Maine | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Manitoba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maryland | 63 | 52 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Massachusetts | 73 | 70 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Michigan | 41 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Minnesota | 21 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mississippi | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Missouri | 17 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Montana | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nebraska | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nevada | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Brunswick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Hampshire | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
New Jersey | 61 | 53 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
New Mexico | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
New York | 176 | 168 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Carolina | 27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
North Dakota | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northwest Territories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nova Scotia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nunavut | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ohio | 39 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Oklahoma | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ontario | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oregon | 21 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Pennsylvania | 64 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Prince Edward Island | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Quebec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rhode Island | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saskatchewan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Carolina | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Dakota | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Tennessee | 22 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Texas | 65 | 55 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Utah | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Vermont | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Virginia | 64 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Washington | 52 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
West Virginia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wisconsin | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Wyoming | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Yukon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |