United States · legal market
The legal US gambling market
Status, licensing, tax, age and self-exclusion sliced across state × vertical intersections. Every figure is from our US database (56 jurisdictions, snapshot 2026-10-28). Written for counsel: citations, regulators, no marketing fluff.
- Records in US DB
- 47,889
- Verified research records
- Laws & compacts
- 6,320
- 5,346 statutes/rules · 974 tribal-state compacts
- Licences
- 28,049
- Across 103 regulators
- Jurisdictions
- 56
- States, DC and territories checked
- Tax rules on record
- 0
- Operator and player-side tax rows in the DB
- Self-exclusion programs
- 33
- 31 jurisdictions with a sourced program
Live jurisdictions by segment
Click a segment to open the status matrix filtered to live jurisdictions. Unchecked cells are omitted, not counted as illegal.
The federal frame
- Wire Act196118 U.S.C. § 1084
- UIGEA200631 U.S.C. §§ 5361–5367
- IGRA198825 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2721
- Interstate Horseracing Act197815 U.S.C. §§ 3001–3007
- Johnson Act15 U.S.C. § 1172
- Illegal Gambling Business Act18 U.S.C. § 1955
- Federal wagering excise198326 U.S.C. §§ 4401, 4402, 4421
- Lottery transport ban18 U.S.C. §§ 1301, 1307
Is gambling legal? Every state and territory
One page per jurisdiction (56) with the status of each gambling type, the minimum age, the regulator and the statute or regulator page we used.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- American Samoa
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Short answers
State tools
Check one state in depth
Legal status, operator licences, player tax withholding and self-exclusion — each answer cites the statute or regulator page we used.
Request a custom sliceA data summary, not legal or tax advice. For a decision, ask a licensed lawyer or tax professional in the jurisdiction concerned.
Research by jurisdiction
All supporting sources by jurisdiction and data type
| Jurisdiction | Licence records |
|---|---|
| Arizona | 3628Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Arkansas | 4Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| California | 171Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Colorado | 10Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Connecticut | 106Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Delaware | 674Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| District of Columbia | 342Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Idaho | 9Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Illinois | 11599Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Indiana | 18Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Iowa | 2631Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Kansas | 1809Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Kentucky | 2Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Louisiana | 4002Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Maine | 8Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Michigan | 3Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Missouri | 2Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Montana | 1819Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Nebraska | 10Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Nevada | 688Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| New Jersey | 53Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Ohio | 7Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Oklahoma | 3Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Oregon | 8Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Pennsylvania | 26Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| South Dakota | 6Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Washington | 13Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| Puerto Rico | 267Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
| US Virgin Islands | 131Verified records in this database (not a market total)Official source · 2026-10-28 |
No confirmed value published yet (records under review or not researched; this is not a zero or a prohibition): Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.