Online Sports Betting Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Ohio Sports Betting Statistics for 2026

You need more than one headline to understand sports betting in Ohio. The licensed online, retail and lottery-terminal accounts measure different channels, while original university surveys describe particular student populations.

This page keeps those boundaries visible. Monthly financial observations cover the current calendar year; campus findings retain their original fieldwork dates and cannot be read as current statewide adult prevalence.

Headline figures

What did Ohio's online sportsbooks report?

Ohio's online accounts need two separate measures: money received in wagers and revenue retained after the reporting deductions. The regulator's revised series makes that distinction visible.

What did online accounts show early in the year?

Gross receipts describe betting activity, while revenue describes the amount remaining under the commission's reporting formula. The January receipts headline is above. The following monthly observations use the September revision of the original workbook, which revises an earlier January release. Readers should therefore use this version consistently instead of combining it with preliminary press coverage. The online channel excludes the separately administered lottery terminals. Promotional credits appear in their own reporting column and are not silently treated as a revenue deduction.

What did online accounts show in spring and early summer?

The monthly online subtotal continues the same reporting definition through this period. Receipts are not unique customer spending: the accounts do not identify individual people or separate money wagered repeatedly after a payout. Revenue is also not net business profit, because these figures do not subtract all operating costs. The source provides dollar amounts directly, so no share or implied margin has been calculated to increase the observation count. Each month remains a separate reporting period.

What did the latest online accounts show?

The September revenue headline appears above. Summer receipts and revenue complete the same channel-specific series, using the revised source instead of a mixture of report vintages. A change between months does not by itself identify the cause. Sports scheduling, betting outcomes and operator activity are not separated in these aggregate observations. The figures also exclude retail sportsbooks and Type-C terminals. Keeping those boundaries visible prevents an online number from being presented as the whole Ohio market.

What did Ohio's retail sportsbooks report?

Retail sportsbooks have their own accounts and should remain visible even when online figures dominate the headlines. Type-B retail activity is distinct from lottery-administered terminals.

What did retail accounts show early in the year?

The January gross-receipts headline appears above. Remaining observations describe the commission's Type-B retail subtotal, instead of all betting that happened at a physical location. Lottery terminals sit in a different administrative series. This distinction counts when someone compares a retail result with a news headline combining channels. Revenue is reported separately from taxable revenue in the original account; they should not be exchanged simply because both are denominated in dollars. The observations below use revenue, with the source's revised monthly values.

What did retail accounts show in spring and early summer?

These observations measure receipts and revenue at the licensed retail sportsbook channel. They do not count visits, customers or individual wagers. A large wager can contribute substantially to receipts without representing broad participation, while the monthly revenue result depends on payouts and other reporting deductions. The underlying report includes operator rows, but the article uses its published statewide subtotal. That avoids counting the same business twice through a sum of operator and market totals.

What did the latest retail accounts show?

The September retail revenue headline is in Main Takeaways. The surrounding months retain the same Type-B scope and source revision. Comparison with online accounts is useful only when the metric matches: receipts should be compared with receipts and revenue with revenue. These figures do not measure channel profitability, since staffing, property and other expenses are outside the table. They also do not show whether customers moved between apps and premises. Customer-level movement would require different evidence.

How much activity did Ohio's Type-C terminals record?

Lottery-administered terminals are a separate reporting channel. Their handle and settled prize liability should be read together without substituting either for online sportsbook receipts.

What did terminal accounts show early in the year?

  • Ohio January 2026 Type-C prize liability: $384,280. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio February 2026 Type-C handle: $336,051. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio February 2026 Type-C prize liability: $304,837. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio March 2026 Type-C handle: $384,104. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio March 2026 Type-C prize liability: $368,901. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)

January's terminal handle is showed above. Prize liability is the amount owed for prizes on settled events, recorded when the event closes, according to the source's definitions. It therefore has a different timing concept from cash entering a terminal. These figures cover the statewide Type-C channel alone. The report describes its amounts as unaudited and rounded, with adjustments possible in later postings. We retain the published amounts instead of replace them with values reverse-engineered from another column.

What did terminal accounts show in spring and early summer?

  • Ohio April 2026 Type-C handle: $285,441. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio April 2026 Type-C prize liability: $259,397. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio May 2026 Type-C handle: $315,703. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio May 2026 Type-C prize liability: $321,688. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio June 2026 Type-C handle: $266,811. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio June 2026 Type-C prize liability: $225,967. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)

The terminal series uses handle and prize liability from the same monthly rows. A payout can exceed the amount wagered in a particular month; the accounting window should not be mistaken for the return on a hypothetical single bet. The underlying source is a fiscal-year report, but each observation here explicitly identifies its calendar month. This prevents the fiscal-year label from moving January through June into the wrong calendar year. No operator-level totals are added on top of the statewide account.

What did the latest terminal accounts show?

  • Ohio July 2026 Type-C handle: $226,546. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio July 2026 Type-C prize liability: $204,649. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio August 2026 Type-C handle: $272,612. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio August 2026 Type-C prize liability: $259,452. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio September 2026 Type-C prize liability: $449,751. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)

The September handle headline appears above. The remaining values come from the newer fiscal-year report covering the following summer and September, instead of the earlier version that contained only July. This is a concrete reason to verify the live original: a search-index preview can retain an older attachment. The latest original table and its period labels are stored with the inventory. The series remains terminal-only and should not be used as a proxy for participation across all Ohio sportsbooks.

What did terminal revenue and payout percentages show?

Gross gaming revenue and payout percentage answer different questions. The terminal reports publish both, including a month when reported prize liability exceeded wagers.

What did early-year terminal outcomes show?

  • Ohio January 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $43,787. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio January 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 89.77%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio February 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $31,184. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio February 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 90.72%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio March 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $15,098. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio March 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 96.07%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)

The observations below use gross gaming revenue and the original payout percentage. The latter is calculated by the Lottery from prizes divided by handle less voids, so it should not be recalculated using a different denominator. Gross revenue is also separate from revised revenue after negative carryover. Those labels matter even when the columns happen to match in a particular month. The source rounds its displayed figures, and an independent calculation from rounded cells can differ from the printed ratio.

Why do the spring terminal results need careful reading?

  • Ohio April 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $25,899. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio April 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 90.92%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio May 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 101.90%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio June 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $40,529. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)
  • Ohio June 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 84.79%. (Ohio Lottery, Jul 2026)

May's negative gross-revenue headline appears above. The source preserves that sign and separately reports negative carryover in the next month. The article uses gross revenue throughout this section, avoiding an unnoticed switch to revised revenue. A payout percentage above the full wager amount describes this reporting window, not a guaranteed return available to a bettor. Settlement timing and the source's denominator remain essential to interpreting the numbers. No monthly percentage is averaged into an invented annual return.

What did the latest terminal outcomes show?

  • Ohio July 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $21,897. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio July 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 90.33%. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio August 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $13,080. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio August 2026 Type-C reported payout percentage: 95.20%. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Ohio September 2026 Type-C gross gaming revenue: $28,739. (Ohio Lottery, Oct 2026)

The September payout percentage is showed above. The remaining observations use the same terminal-only definitions in the newer fiscal-year account. They are not equivalent to the commission's online taxable-revenue series or to amounts distributed to public funds. The report includes additional distribution columns, but those transfers are not counted again as betting revenue. This separation makes the article useful for readers comparing channels while avoiding a false total built from overlapping accounting measures.

What did Ohio State's Columbus students report?

Campus surveys provide evidence about students that revenue accounts cannot supply. Their results describe the sampled university population, and the older voluntary assessment is not a causal before-and-after experiment.

What did undergraduate respondents report?

  • Columbus undergraduate respondents reporting less-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 7.3%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus undergraduate respondents reporting more-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 6.6%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus undergraduate respondents reporting at-least-weekly sports betting in spring 2024: 4.5%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus undergraduate respondents reporting negative consequences among past-year sports bettors in spring 2024: 7.5%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State October 2022 undergraduate respondents reporting sports betting more than monthly: 1.4%. (The Ohio State University, Feb 2023)
  • Ohio State October 2022 undergraduate respondents reporting sports betting at least weekly: 0.9%. (The Ohio State University, Feb 2023)

The undergraduate participation headline appears above. Frequency measures use the weighted Columbus Student Life Survey's past-year question. Consequences were asked only of past-year bettors. The older voluntary wellness assessment used different recruitment and measurement. These snapshots cannot establish a causal effect of legalization or represent all Ohio adults.

What did graduate respondents report?

  • Columbus graduate respondents reporting less-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 7.7%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus graduate respondents reporting more-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 4.4%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus graduate respondents reporting at-least-weekly sports betting in spring 2024: 1.2%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus graduate respondents reporting at any frequency sports betting in spring 2024: 13.3%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus graduate respondents reporting negative consequences among past-year sports bettors in spring 2024: 4.2%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State October 2022 graduate/professional respondents reporting sports betting more than monthly: 1.4%. (The Ohio State University, Feb 2023)
  • Ohio State October 2022 graduate/professional respondents reporting sports betting at least weekly: 0.1%. (The Ohio State University, Feb 2023)

The newer report separates graduate students from professional students. Its consequence percentage is conditional on past-year sports betting. The older wellness assessment combines those groups and uses different recruitment. Its dated baseline therefore cannot establish a like-for-like change or a causal policy effect.

What did professional respondents report?

  • Columbus professional respondents reporting less-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 11.6%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus professional respondents reporting more-than-monthly sports betting in spring 2024: 4.8%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus professional respondents reporting at-least-weekly sports betting in spring 2024: 4.2%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Columbus professional respondents reporting at any frequency sports betting in spring 2024: 20.6%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)

The professional-student consequence headline appears above. Frequency and any-participation estimates below refer to the weighted Columbus survey's past-year question. Professional students are separate from graduate students in this report, so combining the two groups would require their original weighting information. The report does not support treating these campus estimates as a statewide prevalence measure. It also distinguishes participation from consequences: having placed a sports bet does not itself establish harmful behavior or a clinical gambling diagnosis.

What did Ohio State's regional campuses report?

Regional-campus evidence adds local detail without becoming a statewide estimate. Small campus samples make precise ranking claims especially difficult to justify.

How frequently did regional respondents bet on sports?

  • Ohio State regional-campus respondents in spring 2024 reporting sports betting less than monthly: 5.3%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State regional-campus respondents in spring 2024 reporting sports betting more than monthly: 2.1%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State regional-campus respondents in spring 2024 reporting sports betting at least weekly: 1.3%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)

The regional report publishes frequency categories for its pooled campus respondents. These percentages answer a past-year question about how often students engaged in sports betting, instead of how much they spent. The survey invited the regional-campus student population and weighted the responses. That does not turn the respondents into a representative sample of every resident in the surrounding counties. The frequency categories also should not be read as clinical risk categories; the instrument reports behavior and a separate consequence item.

What did Lima, Mansfield and Marion report?

  • Ohio State Lima respondents in spring 2024 reporting any past-year sports betting: 8.0%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State Marion respondents in spring 2024 reporting any past-year sports betting: 10.0%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)

Mansfield's participation headline appears above. The other campus estimates below use the same past-year participation question. They describe each campus's student respondents, not the adult population of each city. The source explains that low sample sizes limit its campus breakdown to this participation table. It does not publish campus-specific frequency or consequence estimates here. Apparent differences should therefore be described cautiously, without inventing a regional league table or claiming the campus setting caused an observed response. These are descriptive survey comparisons.

What did Newark, Wooster and the pooled consequence item show?

  • Ohio State Newark respondents in spring 2024 reporting any past-year sports betting: 8.1%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)
  • Ohio State Wooster respondents in spring 2024 reporting any past-year sports betting: 6.9%. (The Ohio State University, Mar 2024)

The pooled regional consequence headline appears above. It applies only to past-year sports bettors who answered the consequence question, not to every regional student or each named campus separately. The remaining participation values are campus-specific and use a different denominator. Keeping those levels separate prevents a pooled finding from being assigned to Newark or Wooster without evidence. The original report's examples of consequences include missed obligations and damaged relationships, but the aggregate answer is not a clinical diagnosis or a measure of financial loss.

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Methodology and sources

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