Season 41 Jeopardy! contestants - where they're from

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).

Contestants by media market

RankMarketStationPlayers
1New YorkWABC4
Toronto / Hamilton1
4PhiladelphiaWPVI1
13Seattle-TacomaKOMO1
19Cleveland-Akron (Canton)WOIO1
20Sacramento-Stockton-ModestoKXTV1
30San DiegoKNSD1
34Kansas CityWDAF1
35AustinKXAN1
42Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle CreekWWMT1
59Little Rock-Pine BluffKATV1
72MadisonWMTV1
73OmahaWOWT1
79Charleston-HuntingtonWSAZ1
99South Bend-ElkhartWSBT1
127Monterey-SalinasKSBW1
130Corpus ChristiKZTV1

Contestants by state/province

State / ProvincePlayers
California3
New York3
Michigan2
Texas2
Arkansas1
Kansas1
Nebraska1
New Jersey1
Ohio1
Ontario1
Pennsylvania1
Washington1
West Virginia1
Wisconsin1