Online Sports Betting Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Virginia Sports Betting Statistics for 2026

You cannot measure Virginia's sports-betting market by treating every stake as bookmaker income. The official accounts show a different figure after winnings and authorized deductions, while surveys and service records answer different questions about people.

This page separates licensed activity, conditional young-adult survey findings and problem-gambling service use. Broader gambling and combined gaming questions are labeled explicitly. Each dated citation supports a distinct observation; the page does not claim that its sources represent the same population.

Headline figures

What do Virginia's latest sports-betting accounts measure?

Handle is money put into bets, not money kept by bookmakers. The regulator's accounting bridge is more useful than treating every dollar wagered as operator income.

What did July's account contain?

  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, total wagers: $609,159,469.62. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, cash winnings: $549,773,796.29. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, void and cancelled wagers: $2,322,455.51. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, federal excise taxes deducted: $1,482,525.53. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, allowable adjustments deducted: $190,723.82. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, adjusted gross revenue: $55,389,968.47. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)

July opens the activity fiscal year. Winnings, voided bets and authorized deductions reduce the taxable base, so handle should never be quoted as profit. The figures below reproduce the signed report's monthly column, with deduction amounts displayed as positive magnitudes for readability. They describe licensed market activity, not household spending or unique bettors.

What did August's account contain?

  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, total wagers: $532,277,071.50. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, cash winnings: $481,001,362.20. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, void and cancelled wagers: $2,244,328.64. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, federal excise taxes deducted: $1,298,167.36. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, allowable adjustments deducted: $574,555.46. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, adjusted gross revenue: $47,158,657.84. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)

August uses the same accounting categories as July. The exact amounts come from the signed report instead of rounded press-release prose. These are aggregate market figures; they cannot establish which individual operator gained customers or which sport generated the activity. Cash winnings can also be wagered again, making handle unsuitable as a count of newly deposited money.

What did September's account contain?

  • September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, cash winnings: $660,981,299.71. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, void and cancelled wagers: $3,012,673.67. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, federal excise taxes deducted: $1,756,294.00. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, allowable adjustments deducted: $2,052,560.06. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)

September's handle and adjusted revenue are showed above. The remaining lines show why subtracting cash winnings alone does not reproduce the taxable amount. Federal excise taxes, cancelled wagers and authorized adjustments belong to the accounting bridge. The report does not identify the behavior of individual players behind those adjustments. Its totals should therefore support market reporting, not claims about a typical bettor's losses. Differences between months may reflect the sporting calendar, betting outcomes and accounting timing; this report alone cannot isolate their effects.

How do fiscal totals, operators and tax allocations fit together?

Activity and tax reporting have different time labels. Keeping those labels visible prevents an apparently precise comparison from mixing collections with the underlying betting month.

What do the opening fiscal-period figures show?

  • July 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, General Fund allocation: $8,097,453.93. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund allocation: $207,627.02. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, total tax collections: $8,305,080.95. (Virginia Lottery, Aug 2026)
  • July–September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, fiscal-year-to-date total wagers: $1,871,018,264.14. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • July–September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, fiscal-year-to-date cash winnings: $1,691,756,458.20. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • July–September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, fiscal-year-to-date void and cancelled wagers: $7,579,457.82. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)

The activity totals cover the opening quarter of the activity fiscal year. Tax figures retain the month label printed in the corresponding signed report. These series are not interchangeable: the Lottery's tax tables and betting activity tables have different reporting conventions. Cumulative values should not be added to their component months.

How many operators and what August allocations were reported?

  • August 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, General Fund allocation: $6,841,644.73. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund allocation: $175,426.79. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • August 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, total tax collections: $7,017,071.52. (Virginia Lottery, Sep 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia, mobile operators accepting sports wagers: 10. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia, land-based casinos accepting sports wagers: 3. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • September 2026 Virginia, operators reporting cumulative positive taxable adjusted gross revenue: 10. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)

Operating in the market and reporting positive taxable revenue are different classifications. The operator counts below belong to the latest activity report, while the allocations retain August's source label. A land-based casino count is not a count of every casino in Virginia. No operator-level market shares can be inferred from these aggregate totals.

What does the latest fiscal and tax report add?

  • October 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, General Fund allocation: $9,011,854.94. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • October 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund allocation: $231,073.20. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • October 2026 Virginia sports-betting tax table, total tax collections: $9,242,928.14. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • July–September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, fiscal-year-to-date federal excise taxes deducted: $4,536,986.89. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • July–September 2026 Virginia licensed sports betting, fiscal-year-to-date allowable adjustments deducted: $2,817,839.34. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Virginia fiscal 2027 cumulative tax collections reported in October 2026, General Fund allocation: $32,137,000.10. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)
  • Virginia fiscal 2027 cumulative tax collections reported in October 2026, Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund allocation: $824,025.64. (Virginia Lottery, Oct 2026)

The latest cumulative revenue and tax headline figures appear above. Remaining allocations and deductions retain fiscal scope. The September report explicitly labels its collection column October; the earlier letters instead use their activity-month names. We retain those labels and avoid pretending the documents establish a uniform cash-calendar series. Allocations do not establish actual service expenditure.

How often did surveyed young adults report gambling activities?

A young-adult survey can describe reported behavior without counting every young adult in Virginia. These figures are conditional on recent gaming or gambling and must keep that denominator attached.

How often did respondents report event betting and poker?

  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, betting on online video-gaming tournaments or events daily or almost daily: 3.4%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, betting on online video-gaming tournaments or events weekly: 7.8%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, betting on online video-gaming tournaments or events once or twice: 17.3%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, poker for money daily or almost daily: 1.8%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, poker for money weekly: 8.4%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, poker for money once or twice: 19.1%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

Event betting concerns wagering on competitions, not playing video games. Monthly activities can overlap.

How often did respondents report bingo and casino activities?

  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, bingo daily or almost daily: 1.8%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, bingo weekly: 6.8%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, bingo once or twice: 24.4%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, slot machines or casino visits daily or almost daily: 2.2%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, slot machines or casino visits weekly: 7.9%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, slot machines or casino visits once or twice: 28.7%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

These are adjacent gambling activities, not sports estimates. The casino item combines slots and visits without separating channels. Percentages retain the conditional survey denominator.

How often did respondents report sports bets and lottery purchases?

  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, sports betting once or twice: 30.1%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, lottery or scratch tickets daily or almost daily: 2.3%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, lottery or scratch tickets weekly: 12.7%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gamed/gambled in the past month, lottery or scratch tickets once or twice: 51.0%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

The sports daily and weekly results are showed above. Less frequent sports participation appears below beside lottery and scratch-ticket responses. These self-reports concern recent activity, not verified licensed accounts. The presentation does not establish whether every reported wager was made legally or through a regulated operator. A single wave cannot establish trends. Respondents who played several products can appear in more than one activity category, so adding across products would overstate unique participation.

What did the young-adult survey reveal about experiences and beliefs?

Social benefits and unwanted experiences can coexist in self-reports. Neither turns a convenience survey into a clinical assessment or makes its combined gaming questions specific to sports betting.

What social connection and disclosure experiences were reported?

  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gambled in the past month and said gambling helps build or maintain social connections: 20.5%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 surveyed Virginia young adults who gambled in the past month and were not honest about time spent gambling: 23.4%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

These questions were asked about gambling among respondents who had gambled recently. The money-disclosure finding is showed above; the remaining findings concern social connection and time disclosure. A respondent may endorse several statements, so these categories are not mutually exclusive. The presentation does not show whether lack of disclosure involved family, friends or anyone else. It would be inappropriate to supply that missing context or equate the responses with a diagnosis. The results are useful as prompts for further research into how gambling fits into relationships. They do not establish that gambling caused a relationship problem, and they are not estimates for all young adults in the state.

What risks were reported for gaming or gambling combined?

  • 2024 Virginia young-adult risk-item respondents reporting "gaming or gambling time often interfered with regular activities": 15.0%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult risk-item respondents reporting "gaming or gambling negatively affected finances": 14.6%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult risk-item respondents reporting "spent much of the day thinking about gaming or gambling": 12.5%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

The risk chart deliberately combines gaming and gambling. These findings therefore cannot be attributed solely to sports betting or even solely to gambling. Its respondent base differs from the fallacy items, and the chart does not provide a sports-only subgroup. We preserve the combined wording and reproduce point estimates without converting them into statewide counts. The interference, finances and preoccupation items are separate experiences instead of diagnostic categories. One person may report several of them. The chart's confidence intervals also show that the estimates are uncertain, even before considering how the survey sample was recruited.

Which gambling fallacies attracted agreement?

  • 2024 Virginia young-adult fallacy-item respondents strongly agreeing that gambling is a good way to make money: 8.9%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult fallacy-item respondents somewhat agreeing that gambling more often helps win more than lose: 21.1%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult fallacy-item respondents strongly agreeing that gambling more often helps win more than lose: 6.7%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult fallacy-item respondents somewhat agreeing that chances of winning get better after a loss: 18.7%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)
  • 2024 Virginia young-adult fallacy-item respondents strongly agreeing that chances of winning get better after a loss: 6.1%. (OMNI Institute / Virginia DBHDS, Jul 2024)

The money-making somewhat-agree result is showed above. The remaining responses distinguish stronger agreement from weaker agreement and retain each statement's wording. These are opinions reported by survey respondents, not guidance about how betting odds work. Losing previously does not make a subsequent independent outcome more favorable. Item respondent bases differ; a common headcount would mislead.

Who used Virginia's problem-gambling service network?

People receiving help are a service population, not a representative sample of gamblers. The VCU presentation shows whom the program reached and what capacity supported that work.

What service volume and access were reported?

The number served and timely-connection result appear above. New referrals and the male share add context without turning referrals into a count of new gambling problems. A referral is a service event and may depend on outreach, awareness and referral practice. The presentation does not supply a sports-only client subgroup or a comparison group outside the service network. Its outcome claims also lack enough denominator detail for use here, so those claims are excluded. Service reach should be interpreted as evidence about program activity instead of proof that problem gambling became more or less prevalent. Likewise, connections within a week describe access timing, not the length or success of subsequent treatment.

Which ages appeared in the service population?

The chart reports the age distribution of people represented in the service presentation. The oldest label is reproduced as over sixty-five instead of silently changing its boundary. Rounded percentages need not sum perfectly. These shares cannot be compared directly with the helpline age chart, whose intervals and service population differ.

What additional needs and service capacity were reported?

These figures describe clients, capacity and outreach. Employment, mental-health concerns and substance-use disorder can overlap. Clinician and peer counts describe the support network; outreach totals describe activity, not unique treatment completions. Outreach figures retain published lower bounds.

What did Virginia's helpline record?

Calls measure contact with a helpline, not the number of people with a gambling disorder. The VCPG presentation distinguishes calls from intakes and shows how the contact profile changed.

How do calls and intakes differ?

The latest call total is showed above. An intake is counted when a caller asks for help with problem gambling, so it is not synonymous with every incoming call. The historical baseline comes from the same producer's comparison slide. Changes in awareness, service access or repeat contacts may affect use, and the presentation does not isolate their contributions. These figures therefore cannot be read as a direct growth rate in statewide gambling disorder. Nor do they establish how many contacts involved sports betting instead of other gambling products. The distinction counts when describing demand for services or comparing contact counts with survey estimates.

What ages were represented among callers?

The latest caller profile is reproduced using the chart's original age labels. Those labels put sixty-six in adjacent categories; the source does not resolve that boundary ambiguity. We preserve it instead of silently redistribute callers. The percentages describe reported helpline contacts, not a population survey of Virginia adults.

How did callers find help and who was represented?

The share calling for themselves appears above. The remaining profile figures describe gender and the internet as a route to help. They do not identify a caller's gambling channel: finding a helpline online is different from gambling online. The presentation reports these measures for its service population and does not explain missing-data handling in detail. The percentages should therefore remain descriptive of the published caller profile. Gender composition can reflect who seeks help as well as who experiences difficulties. Neither measure demonstrates how all gamblers behave or how an individual person should be classified. Further assessment would be needed to understand a caller's circumstances and support needs.

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.