The Ocean State’s gambling sector made an astonishing start to 2025 after Rhode Island revealed its total betting handle generated over $150.9 million in January.
Meanwhile, the office of the Auditor General also declared that the state’s gambling taxes had raised over $434 million in 2024.
January’s revenue figures make staggering reading, given that Rhode Island only has a population of 1.1 million residents.
To put these numbers into context, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Michigan reported revenues of $529.1 million, $210.1 million, and $331.2 million, respectively, in the same period. Yet each of these states has nearly ten times the population of Rhode Island.