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Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker

AGA’s Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker provides state-by-state and national insight into the U.S. commercial gaming industry’s financial performance based on state revenue reports. This issue highlights results for January 2025.  

Chart titled "January 2025 GGR Per Gaming Vertical, Annual Change" showing increases in revenue: Total GGR $6.51B (+11.9%), Traditional Casino GGR $4.08B (+8.7%), Sports Betting GGR $1.60B (+10.4%), iGaming GGR $827.2M (+34.7%). Source: American Gaming Association.

U.S. commercial gaming revenue expanded in January by 11.9 percent compared to the previous year. Combined revenue from traditional casino games, sports betting and iGaming reached $6.51 billion, a new January revenue record. 

While iGaming continued its very strong growth and sports betting continued to perform strongly in January, brick-and-mortar gaming revenue grew by the fastest rate since January of 2023.

Bar and line graph showing U.S. commercial gaming revenue from January 2022 to December 2025. Red bars represent revenue in billions of dollars, with figures fluctuating. A black line indicates annual change percentage. Data source: American Gaming Association.

In total, 31 of 36 commercial gaming jurisdictions that were operational a year ago and had published full January data at the time of writing, saw expanded combined revenue from traditional casino games, sports betting and iGaming expand from the previous year. Sports betting revenue was not yet available for Arizona.

Table showing commercial gaming revenue by U.S. state for January 2025. Highlights include Nevada at $1,057.4M, New Jersey at $399.1M, and Pennsylvania at $445.3M. The total U.S. revenue is $6,514.8M, with a 4.7% annual change.

January revenue from land-based gaming—encompassing casino slots, table games and retail sports betting— totaled $4.15 billion, an 8.3 percent increase compared to the previous year.

Conversely, online gaming, which encompasses both online sports betting and iGaming, reported revenue of $2.36 billion nationwide, a 14.6 percent increase year-over-year. Online gaming makes up 36.3% of the total market in January, up Slightly from 35 percent in 2024.

Bar graph showing U.S. gaming revenue from Aug 2022 to Jan 2025. Red bars for land-based and black bars for online gaming. Lines represent annual changes. Revenue increases, with notable rises in mid-2023 and mid-2024. Data from American Gaming Association.

In January, traditional casino slot machines and table games collectively generated revenue of $4.08 billion, a year-over-year increase of 8.7 percent. Breaking that down further: slot machines generated $2.88 billion, up 6.1 percent, and table game revenue increased for the first time in seven months, expanding by 17.7 percent to $909.8 million. Nebraska, Virgina and Nevada particularly benefited from new property openings and a strong month on the Las Vegas Strip.

At the state level, 23 out of the 27 states offering traditional casino slot machines and/or table games posted a year-over-year revenue expansion in January with an average increase of 14.4 percent. Among the four states with declining January revenue – Colorado, Maryland, South Dakota and West Virginia –the average contraction was only 2.1 percent.

Note that the individual slot and table game figures exclude data from Louisiana and Michigan due to disparities in state reporting methodologies; however, their combined figures contribute to the nationwide total.

Bar chart showing annual change in traditional casino gaming revenue by state for January 2025. Virginia has the highest increase over 40%, while Colorado shows the largest decline at -15%. Other states vary from slight decreases to moderate increases.

In January, nationwide sports betting revenue expanded by 10.4 percent year-over-year to reach $1.60 billion in revenue. While overall sports betting revenue increased, retail sports betting contracted by 8.8 percent.

Perhaps benefiting from a Lions playoff appearance, Michigan set an all-time sports betting revenue record in the month of January, increasing 77.5 percent to bringing $85.6 million. Montana also experienced a noteworthy year-over-year increase in sports betting revenue, up 51.3 percent with a hold rate of 22.4%, 7.9 points higher than January of last year. Conversely Ohio, New Jersey and Vermont all experienced year-over-year decreases over twenty percent.

January sports betting figures exclude data from Arizona as it had not been reported at the time of publication.

Pie chart titled "Sports Betting Revenue by State, January 2025." States shown: NY ($2,480M), IL ($1,472M), NJ ($1,222M), MA ($951M), VA ($874M), MI ($856M), PA ($843M), MD ($821M), NC ($745M), Other ($1,604M). Tennessee noted separately. Source: American Gaming Association.

In January, combined revenue generated by the six operational iGaming markets increased 34.7 percent year-over-year, reaching $827.2 million. This represented the second-highest grossing month ever for iGaming revenue, trailing only December 2024’s $842.9 million.

All iGaming markets saw gains compared to the previous year, and Pennsylvania maintained its position as the largest iGaming market with 268.0M in revenue for January. Delaware posted a 162.2 percent increase over the same time last year, continuing to benefit from its mid- year shift in online betting vendors. Rhode Island begins its first full year with a legal iGaming market with$3.2 million in revenue for January.  

Stacked area chart showing iGaming revenue growth by state (RI, DE, WV, CT, NJ, MI, PA) from Jan 2022 to Jan 2025. Revenue rises from under $400M to nearly $900M, with PA contributing the most. Data source: American Gaming Association.

About the Report 
AGA’s Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker provides state-by-state and nationwide insight into the U.S. commercial gaming industry’s financial performance. Monthly updates on AmericanGaming.org feature topline figures based on state revenue reports while quarterly reports provide a more detailed analysis covering the three previous months.