Bettors in North Carolina wagered greater than $666 million on sports by the state’s authorized operators, the fifth consecutive month that the state has eclipsed $600 million in paid wagers.
The interval from September to January overlaps with the soccer season. In these 5 months, bettors wagered greater than $3.55 billion in paid wagers.
Sunday’s Super Bowl, sometimes the most important single sports betting day of the season, marked the tip of the 2025 season. Those numbers aren’t included in the January report. North Carolina was forecast to wager greater than $75 million on the sport.
The quantity wagered in January 2026 was up 7% from the quantity wager in January 2025, based on numbers launched by the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, which oversees sports betting in the state.
Sports betting launched in March 2024. The quantity wager in paid wagers has exceeded $600 million 9 instances, together with $700 million twice, in 23 months since.
Recent sports betting scandals in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and school basketball have led to prison prices towards gamers and others, however they don’t appear to have restricted the urge for food for authorized sports betting.
Bettors have positioned greater than $12.6 billion in paid wagers plus one other $691 million in promotional bets for the reason that launch of authorized sports betting in North Carolina.
The state has collected greater than $250 million in taxes from operators. January’s $14.4 million in taxes marked the fifth consecutive month with greater than $12 million in taxes paid by the operators, who pay an 18% tax on gross wagering income. Operators have made simply in need of $1.4 billion in gross wagering income as calculated by the Lottery Commission.
The cash is distributed to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, two youth sports applications, the athletic departments at UNC System faculties (not NC State or North Carolina), a serious occasions fund and the overall fund.
The WRAL Documentary Unit is inspecting the influence of legalized sports betting over the previous two years, with a documentary set to premiere throughout all WRAL platforms on March 18.
“We’ve seen increased tax revenue from gambling obviously,” Kelly Crosbie, a director in the division of substance abuse on the NCDHHS, mentioned throughout an interview for the WRAL documentary. “We’ve all seen increased advertising of every kind, on social media, billboards, radio, TV. We’ve also seen a huge increase about people reaching out for problem gambling resources.”