US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Sports Betting and Pari-mutuels

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from sports betting and pari-mutuels, from highest to lowest. First are New Hampshire (0.433), Rhode Island (0.324) and Wyoming (0.313). The middle one of the 51 has 0.0299.

What this measures

The percentage from taxes on sports betting and horse-race betting. The Census only split this out starting in 2023, so there is no 2022 figure. That year is marked unknown, not zero, since states taxed betting long before it had its own line. Source: Census government finances.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	% of all taxes
1	New Hampshire	0.433
2	Rhode Island	0.324
3	Wyoming	0.313
4	New York	0.306
5	Tennessee	0.238
6	Kentucky	0.227
7	Pennsylvania	0.196
8	Nevada	0.195
9	Delaware	0.169
10	Louisiana	0.148
11	Arkansas	0.146
12	Illinois	0.13
13	New Jersey	0.124
14	Virginia	0.121
15	Indiana	0.108
16	Ohio	0.101
17	Arizona	0.0881
18	Iowa	0.082
19	West Virginia	0.0689
20	Maryland	0.0646
21	Missouri	0.0637
22	Colorado	0.0627
23	Massachusetts	0.0617
24	Connecticut	0.0541
25	Alabama	0.0341
26	Kansas	0.0299
27	Michigan	0.0299
28	Mississippi	0.0224
29	North Dakota	0.019
30	District of Columbia	0.0157
31	Idaho	0.0131
32	Maine	0.0129
33	Florida	0.00928
34	South Dakota	0.00884
35	California	0.00559
36	Oklahoma	0.00554
37	New Mexico	0.00498
38	Minnesota	0.00328
39	Texas	0.0028
40	Washington	0.00181
41	Nebraska	0.00115
42	Georgia	0
43	Hawaii	0
44	Montana	0
45	North Carolina	0
46	Oregon	0
47	South Carolina	0
48	Utah	0
49	Vermont	0
50	Wisconsin	0
51	Alaska	0

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