Jeopardy! contestants - where they're from - Seasons 33-36 aggregated

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:

• The Tournament of Champions fields in 2017 and 2019
• The All-Star Games field
• Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time

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:

• Contestants by media market
• Contestants by state/province

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.

Contestants by media market