Online Sports Betting Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Pennsylvania Sports Betting Statistics for 2026

You cannot infer how many Pennsylvanians bet from the dollars passing through sportsbooks. The market accounts measure money, while population surveys measure reported participation and experiences. This page keeps both useful without treating them as interchangeable.

The regulator's latest quarterly reporting window sits alongside the 2025 gaming assessment and the independent 2024 state health survey. Assessment findings below consistently use its main telephone sample; the supplementary sample is not misrepresented as a later year. Broader gambling findings are labeled explicitly as context instead of sports-only estimates.

Headline figures

  • September 2026 statewide sports handle: $798,743,169. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 statewide sports taxable gross revenue: $44,737,408. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Valley Forge Casino sports handle: $284,203,028. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino At The Meadows sports handle: $252,816,673. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, past-year online gambling: 17.76%. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, online sports betting: 7.8%. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, in-play betting among sports bettors: 30.2%. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, median monthly gambling spending, MIXED: $105. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, population PGM problem-gambling classification: 2.5%. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA 2025 assessment, PGM problem-gambling classification, MIXED: 13.1%. (Penn State researchers, Jan 2026)
  • PA BRFSS 2024 All adults, past-year any gambling: 35.1%. (PA Department of Health, Feb 2026)
  • PA BRFSS 2024 All adults, ever chasing losses among past-year gamblers: 16.3%. (PA Department of Health, Feb 2026)

How much money moves through Pennsylvania sportsbooks?

The accounting sequence counts more than a single headline. Wagers, promotional credits and taxable receipts describe different parts of the market, and none directly measures a bookmaker's profit.

What did the July accounts record?

  • July 2026 statewide sports handle: $509,536,348. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • July 2026 statewide sports revenue before promotional credits: $64,784,104. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • July 2026 statewide sports promotional credits: $12,944,517. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • July 2026 statewide sports taxable gross revenue: $51,839,588. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • July 2026 statewide sports state tax due: $17,625,460. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • July 2026 statewide sports local share assessment: $1,036,792. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

The July column begins the state fiscal-year report. It combines regulated retail and online sports wagering, with promotional credits separated from revenue before those credits. The state tax and local assessment are reported account lines, not independent estimates calculated here. This distinction also avoids introducing rounding differences from multiplying a headline amount. The figures should be read as a monthly accounting record instead of a statement of unique customers or average spending per person.

What changed in the August accounting window?

  • August 2026 statewide sports handle: $498,503,057. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • August 2026 statewide sports revenue before promotional credits: $50,467,861. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • August 2026 statewide sports promotional credits: $11,106,233. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • August 2026 statewide sports taxable gross revenue: $39,361,628. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • August 2026 statewide sports state tax due: $13,382,953. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • August 2026 statewide sports local share assessment: $787,233. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

August uses the same definitions, allowing a direct comparison of reported account lines with the preceding month. That does not make the difference a measure of customer growth: schedules, results and unsettled bets can affect the relationship between stakes and receipts. The regulator specifically warns that wagers on future events may be recorded before the associated payouts. Dividing same-month revenue by handle therefore does not produce a reliable win percentage for matched bets.

What does September's remaining breakdown show?

  • September 2026 statewide sports revenue before promotional credits: $73,509,865. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 statewide sports promotional credits: $28,772,457. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 statewide sports state tax due: $15,210,719. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 statewide sports local share assessment: $894,748. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

September's statewide handle and taxable total are showed above. The remaining lines show revenue before promotional credits, the deduction itself and the reported public-revenue components. These totals cover sports wagering instead of the state's broader casino and lottery markets. Comparisons with an online-casino total would mix products. The published report also contains future-month placeholders; those blank-period zeros are not observations and are excluded here. Retaining the actual reporting month is especially important around the transition from summer schedules into the autumn sporting calendar.

How do major licensed operators compare?

Licensee accounts are the appropriate unit for this comparison. App brands and casino license holders do not always have the same names, so the figures below retain the regulator's licensee labels.

What do Valley Forge and the Meadows report?

  • September 2026 Valley Forge Casino sports promotional credits: $10,700,088. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Valley Forge Casino sports taxable gross revenue: $15,769,542. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino At The Meadows sports promotional credits: $8,126,212. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino At The Meadows sports taxable gross revenue: $12,617,049. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

The headline takeaways give these licensees' September handle. Their remaining entries concern credits and taxable receipts, with retail and online channels combined under each license holder. A larger handle does not by itself establish higher taxable receipts, and neither measure represents net profit after operating costs. The comparison is deliberately limited to the reported period. It should not be extended into a customer ranking or an endorsement of any operator. The source values are rounded to whole dollars, so small reconciliation differences can arise when summing displayed rows.

How do Hollywood and Morgantown differ?

  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino sports handle: $21,758,732. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino sports promotional credits: $366,796. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino sports taxable gross revenue: $2,365,039. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino Morgantown sports handle: $58,368,593. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino Morgantown sports promotional credits: $2,203,229. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino Morgantown sports taxable gross revenue: $2,978,058. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

These are separate licensee rows even with their related naming. Keeping them distinct prevents one location's results from being assigned to another property or app. Credits represent the reported accounting deduction, not necessarily every marketing expense incurred by an operator. Taxable receipts should therefore be compared with the same measure at another licensee, instead of with its pre-credit revenue. This is a financial reporting comparison, not evidence about the safety or quality of a betting product.

What do York, Parx and Harrah's add to the comparison?

  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino York sports handle: $59,309,823. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino York sports promotional credits: $1,365,023. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Hollywood Casino York sports taxable gross revenue: $3,182,177. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Parx Casino sports handle: $12,177,143. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Parx Casino sports promotional credits: $149,366. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Parx Casino sports taxable gross revenue: $1,621,481. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Harrah'S sports handle: $22,802,497. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Harrah'S sports promotional credits: $761,948. (PGCB, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Harrah'S sports taxable gross revenue: $957,180. (PGCB, Oct 2026)

The remaining selected licensees use the same account definitions. They illustrate differences in the scale of stakes and credit deductions without treating these entries as the entire state market. The statewide totals include other license holders too. Keep the month and the combined-channel scope attached when quoting any operator figure.

How many Pennsylvania adults participate in sports betting?

Survey design changes the answer. The assessment publishes a telephone sample and a supplementary sample separately; this page uses the main telephone results consistently instead of turning their difference into a trend.

How do online, offline and mixed participation fit together?

The online participation takeaway belongs to the main telephone sample. The other population measures below use that same sample and refer to gambling over the preceding year. ONLINE and OFFLINE in capital letters identify exclusive modes, while MIXED means participation through both. By contrast, the broader online and offline measures include mixed-mode participants. Adding those broader channel rates would double-count people. The supplementary sample's different estimates are not a later year and are not substituted into this series.

What do sports and in-play measures capture?

The sports-specific online result and the conditional in-play result appear above. The remaining measures distinguish offline sports participation, in-play participation across all adults and the broader frequency of any gambling. In-play means placing a bet after an event begins, but the survey does not turn that answer into a count of live bets or an estimate of money staked. The weekly measure covers all gambling formats, so it cannot be described as the frequency of sports betting alone. This distinction counts when using the research to discuss the reach of digital betting products.

How does sports participation vary within gambling modes?

These percentages describe people already assigned to an exclusive or mixed gambling mode. They are not percentages of all Pennsylvania adults. Sports participation and in-play participation also overlap: in-play is a form of sports betting. The comparisons show how sports fits into different gambling patterns, but do not establish that using a particular channel causes a person to bet on sport or experience harm. Mode membership encompasses other gambling activities as well, which limits sports-only interpretations.

How much time and spending do different gambling groups report?

An average can conceal a highly uneven distribution. The assessment supplies both activity measures and spending medians, which should remain distinct from sportsbook account totals.

How varied are participants' gambling activities?

The format count measures the number of types of gambling reported, not the number of operators, accounts or bets. Mixed-mode participants can encounter more types of activity simply because their definition spans online and offline settings. The results therefore describe breadth of participation instead of an independent causal effect of channel use. A person reporting several formats might still spend little, while someone focused on a single format might spend heavily. The activity count is useful alongside frequency and spending, but should not replace either. These are mean counts from the telephone sample; they are not maximum values or promises about typical behavior for an individual.

How much time did each mode report?

The monthly time figures are arithmetic means. They should not be described as medians or assumed to represent the experience of most participants. A small number of high-hour respondents can pull an average upward, especially in a skewed distribution. The activity being measured is gambling generally, so none of these values is a sports-viewing duration or the time spent specifically inside a sportsbook app. Keeping the scope broad also prevents an unsupported claim that sports betting accounts for all of the reported time. These figures come from self-reports, with the recall and interpretation limitations that accompany that method.

What do spending medians and currency use tell us?

Mixed-mode median spending appears in the takeaways. The remaining medians describe the midpoint of the reported spending distribution for each exclusive mode. They are not interchangeable with mean expenditure or the regulator's handle, which records stakes and can include recycled winnings. The payment question concerns digital or cryptocurrency use for online gambling. Its presence does not establish illegal activity, nor does it identify the particular currency or platform used. The report did not find the difference between the payment-mode groups statistically significant, so the numerical contrast should not be presented as a proven difference in the wider population.

What does the independent state health survey show?

A separate survey is a useful check on definitions, not a number to average with the gaming assessment. BRFSS covers any gambling and uses its own questions, sample and conditional follow-ups.

How does reported gambling participation vary?

These estimates concern any gambling during the preceding year, not sports betting alone. The statewide estimate is showed above; the subgroup entries retain the source categories. BRFSS excludes missing, unknown and refused responses. Differences in point estimates need to be read with their confidence intervals, which are retained in the inventory and original table. This survey's result should not be averaged with the assessment's estimate.

What does the loss-chasing question measure?

The follow-up asks whether respondents ever bet more to recover losses and is restricted to past-year gamblers. The all-gambler result appears above. Ever counts: the behavior is not necessarily confined to the preceding year. These are subgroup estimates of a reported behavior, not a diagnostic score. Confidence intervals are wide for some groups, so this page does not infer a precise ranking or a causal effect of age or gender.

What does the concealment question measure?

Concealment refers to ever lying to important people about the amount gambled, again among past-year gamblers. It is not restricted to online or sports betting. Concealment and loss-chasing responses can overlap. Adding them would not yield a valid prevalence estimate. Uncertainty intervals accompany the original estimates; unreliable cells are excluded.

Glossary

Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.