Season 34 Jeopardy! contestants - where they're from

The main tables track all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2017-18. Thus, they exclude:

Shadi Peterman, defending champion in the season premiere
The Tournament of Champions field, which has its own table at the bottom
The return of Rebecca Zoshak, who re-appeared on March 21 & 22, having been disadvantaged by a badly worded Final Jeopardy! clue in her first appearance on January 11
The return of Ryan Fenster, who re-appeared from July 17-20, having originally appeared from January 29 - February 2 and been disadvantaged by a bad ruling in Double Jeopardy! in his fifth game

In the main table, the College Championship contestants are assigned to the markets of their hometowns, not the institutions they competed for. A separate table showing the breakdown by school appears at the bottom.

Some big-picture numbers about this season of Jeopardy! contestants:

Market representation: 101/256 (39.5%) overall; 97/210 (46.2%) for the United States; and 4/46 (8.7%) for Canada.
State/provincial representation: 45 of 50 states and D.C. had at least one contestant (Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, and South Dakota were not seen). Ontario and British Columbia were the only two Canadian provinces represented.
Non-diverse games: Both challengers hailed from the same media market on three occasions: November 20 (Boston), March 2 (New York), and March 8 (New York).
Diverse weeks: There were eleven weeks of regular play where all ten challengers were from different markets: 4, 14, 19, 23, 27, 28, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45.
Largest markets with no contestant appearing: Overall - Miami-Fort Lauderdale (no. 16); regular play only - Tampa - St. Petersburg (no. 13).

Additionally, I've put together a side-by-side comparison of Seasons 33 and 34.

What's here:

Contestants by media market
Contestants by state/province
2017 Tournament of Champions
2018 College Championship by school

(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 this really cool Nielsen DMA lookup tool I recently discovered.)

Complete for all of Season 34 (2018-07-27), including the separate table for the Tournament of Champions.

Contestants by media market

Rank	Market	Station	Players	Regular	College	Teachers
1	New York	WABC	65	63	1	1
2	Los Angeles	KABC	35	34	1	0
6	Washington (Hagerstown)	WJLA	25	23	1	1
3	Chicago	WLS	24	24	0	0
10	Boston (Manchester)	WBZ	19	18	1	0
17	Denver	KDVR	16	15	0	1
4	Philadelphia	WPVI	14	12	1	1
12	Seattle-Tacoma	KOMO	12	11	0	1
8	San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose	KGO	10	6	3	1
15	Minneapolis-St. Paul	KARE	9	9	0	0
7	Houston	KTRK	8	7	0	1
28	Indianapolis	WTHR	7	7	0	0
32	Hartford & New Haven	WTNH	7	7	0	0
—	Toronto / Hamilton	—	6	6	0	0
27	Nashville	WZTV	6	6	0	0
9	Atlanta	WXIA	5	4	1	0
11	Phoenix (Prescott)	KTVK	5	5	0	0
22	Portland, OR	KATU	5	4	0	1
29	San Diego	KNSD	5	5	0	0
34	Columbus, OH	WBNS	5	5	0	0
97	Burlington-Plattsburgh	WPTZ	5	5	0	0
21	St. Louis	KSDK	4	4	0	0
24	Pittsburgh	WPXI	4	4	0	0
26	Baltimore	WBFF	4	4	0	0
57	Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Hazleton	WBRE	4	4	0	0
20	Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto	KXTV	3	3	0	0
30	Salt Lake City	KJZZ	3	2	0	1
33	Kansas City	KSHB	3	2	0	1
49	Louisville	WLKY	3	3	0	0
74	Omaha	WOWT	3	3	0	0
85	Syracuse	WSYT	3	2	0	1
94	Baton Rouge	WBRZ	3	2	1	0
106	Lincoln & Hastings-Kearney	KOLN	3	3	0	0
107	Johnstown-Altoona-State College	WATM	3	3	0	0
115	Lansing	WILX	3	3	0	0
183	Charlottesville	WVIR	3	3	0	0
14	Detroit	WDIV	2	2	0	0
19	Cleveland-Akron (Canton)	WOIO	2	2	0	0
25	Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)	WTVD	2	2	0	0
39	Austin	KXAN	2	2	0	0
42	Jacksonville	WTLV	2	1	1	0
44	Birmingham (Anniston & Tuscaloosa)	WIAT	2	2	0	0
50	Memphis	WREG	2	1	1	0
51	New Orleans	WVUE	2	2	0	0
—	Ottawa / Gatineau	—	2	2	0	0
55	Richmond-Petersburg	WRIC	2	2	0	0
58	Little Rock-Pine Bluff	KATV	2	2	0	0
60	Albany-Schenectady-Troy	WTEN	2	2	0	0
70	Roanoke-Lynchburg	WDBJ	2	2	0	0
75	Springfield, MO	KSPR-LD	2	1	0	1
76	Rochester, NY	WROC	2	2	0	0
77	Columbia, SC	WOLO	2	2	0	0
79	Portland-Auburn	WMTW	2	2	0	0
81	Madison	WMTV	2	2	0	0
91	Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City & Dubuque	KWWL	2	2	0	0
95	Jackson, MS	WLBT	2	2	0	0
96	South Bend-Elkhart	WSBT	2	1	0	1
5	Dallas-Fort Worth	KTXA	1	1	0	0
13	Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota)	WTSP	1	0	1	0
18	Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne	WFTV	1	1	0	0
—	Vancouver / Victoria	—	1	1	0	0
23	Charlotte	WCNC	1	1	0	0
36	Milwaukee	WDJT	1	1	0	0
—	Kitchener / Waterloo	—	1	1	0	0
41	Oklahoma City	KFOR	1	1	0	0
43	Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek	WWMT	1	1	0	0
45	Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York	WHP	1	1	0	0
46	Albuquerque-Santa Fe	KRQE	1	1	0	0
52	Providence-New Bedford	WPRI	1	1	0	0
53	Buffalo	WIVB	1	0	1	0
59	Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton)	WALA	1	1	0	0
61	Knoxville	WBIR	1	1	0	0
62	Tulsa	KTUL	1	0	1	0
63	Lexington	WKYT	1	0	0	1
65	Tucson (Sierra Vista)	KGUN	1	1	0	0
69	Green Bay-Appleton	WLUK	1	1	0	0
72	Spokane	KHQ	1	1	0	0
80	Huntsville-Decatur (Florence)	WAAY	1	1	0	0
87	Colorado Springs-Pueblo	KKTV	1	1	0	0
92	Charleston, SC	WCBD	1	1	0	0
101	Myrtle Beach-Florence	WBTW	1	1	0	0
103	Evansville	WFIE	1	1	0	0
104	Boise	KBOI	1	1	0	0
105	Reno	KOLO	1	1	0	0
109	Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches)	KLTV	1	1	0	0
111	Fort Wayne	WANE	1	1	0	0
116	Springfield-Holyoke	WWLP	1	1	0	0
121	Lafayette, LA	KATC	1	1	0	0
123	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo	KSBY	1	1	0	0
136	Medford-Klamath Falls	KDRV	1	0	0	1
138	Rockford	WREX	1	1	0	0
141	Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston)	KFYR	1	1	0	0
144	Odessa-Midland	KMID	1	1	0	0
155	Terre Haute	WTWO	1	1	0	0
159	Gainesville	WGFL	1	1	0	0
162	Idaho Falls-Pocatello (Jackson)	KPVI	1	1	0	0
180	Marquette	WLUC-DT2	1	1	0	0
186	Bend, OR	KOHD	1	1	0	0
194	Parkersburg	WTAP	1	1	0	0
197	Cheyenne-Scottsbluff, NE	KGWN	1	1	0	0
198	Casper-Riverton	KCWY	1	1	0	0

Contestants by state/province

State / Province	Players	Regular	College	Teachers
New York	58	55	1	2
California	54	49	4	1
Illinois	26	26
New Jersey	21	18	2	1
Pennsylvania	20	20
Massachusetts	18	17	1
Colorado	17	16		1
District of Columbia	16	16
Washington	14	13		1
Texas	13	12		1
Indiana	11	11
Virginia	11	10	1
Maryland	9	8		1
Minnesota	9	9
Ontario	9	9
Connecticut	8	8
Michigan	8	7		1
Tennessee	8	7	1
Ohio	7	7
Arizona	6	6
Louisiana	6	5	1
Nebraska	6	6
Oregon	6	4		2
Florida	5	3	2
Georgia	5	4	1
Missouri	5	4		1
Alabama	4	4
Arkansas	4	3		1
Kentucky	4	3		1
New Hampshire	4	4
South Carolina	4	4
Wisconsin	4	4
Mississippi	3	3
North Carolina	3	3
Utah	3	2		1
Idaho	2	2
Iowa	2	2
Maine	2	2
Oklahoma	2	1	1
Vermont	2	2
Wyoming	2	2
British Columbia	1	1
Kansas	1	1
Nevada	1	1
New Mexico	1	1
North Dakota	1	1
Rhode Island	1	1
West Virginia	1	1

2017 Tournament of Champions

Rank	Market	Station	Players
2	Los Angeles	KABC	4
1	New York	WABC	2
19	Cleveland-Akron (Canton)	WOIO	2
4	Philadelphia	WPVI	1
5	Dallas-Ft. Worth	KTXA	1
9	Atlanta	WXIA	1
85	Syracuse	WSYT	1
88	Champaign & Springfield-Decatur	WAND	1
109	Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches)	KLTV	1
112	Augusta-Aiken	WRDW	1

Five of the fifteen ToC contestants are introduced as being from different towns than their original Jeopardy! appearances (previously billed towns in parentheses):
Sam Deutsch (Bethesda, MD)
Seth Wilson (Chicago, IL)
Hunter Appler (Mount Airy, NC)
Pranjal Vachaspati (Shaker Heights, OH)
Alan Lin (Santa Barbara, CA)

2018 College Championship by school

Rank	Market	Station	Players	Schools
4	Philadelphia	WPVI	2	Penn, Swarthmore
10	Boston (Manchester)	WBZ	2	Tufts, WPI
1	New York	WABC	1	Columbia
3	Chicago	WLS	1	U. of Chicago
8	San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose	KGO	1	Stanford
9	Atlanta	WXIA	1	Georgia Tech
18	Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne	WFTV	1	Central Florida
27	Nashville	WZTV	1	Vanderbilt
38	Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson	WLOS	1	Furman
41	Oklahoma City	KFOR	1	Oklahoma
52	Providence-New Bedford	WPRI	1	Brown
76	Rochester, NY	WROC	1	RIT
97	Burlington-Plattsburgh	WPTZ	1	Dartmouth