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 2023-24.
Updated through Week 2 of Season 41 (2024-09-20).
| Rank | Market | Station | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | WABC | 4 |
| — | Toronto / Hamilton | — | 1 |
| 4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 1 |
| 13 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 1 |
| 19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 1 |
| 20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 1 |
| 30 | San Diego | KNSD | 1 |
| 34 | Kansas City | WDAF | 1 |
| 35 | Austin | KXAN | 1 |
| 42 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 1 |
| 59 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 1 |
| 72 | Madison | WMTV | 1 |
| 73 | Omaha | WOWT | 1 |
| 79 | Charleston-Huntington | WSAZ | 1 |
| 99 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 1 |
| 127 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 1 |
| 130 | Corpus Christi | KZTV | 1 |
| State / Province | Players |
|---|---|
| California | 3 |
| New York | 3 |
| Michigan | 2 |
| Texas | 2 |
| Arkansas | 1 |
| Kansas | 1 |
| Nebraska | 1 |
| New Jersey | 1 |
| Ohio | 1 |
| Ontario | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Washington | 1 |
| West Virginia | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 1 |