Arizona is the 4th Least Gambling-Addicted State, according to a new WalletHub study of 2016’s Most Gambling-Addicted States.
Americans lose roughly $100 billion gambling each year, and with fans expected to wager more than $100 million on this weekend’s Kentucky Derby, the personal-finance website WalletHub released an in-depth report on 2016’s Most Gambling-Addicted States
In order to call out the states where the gambling problem is most prevalent, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states across 13 key metrics. The data set ranges from “presence of illegal gambling operations” to “lottery sales per capita” to “percentage of people with gambling disorders.”
Gambling Addiction in Arizona (1=Most Addicted, 25=Avg.):
- 16th – Number of Casinos per Capita
- 26th – Number of Gaming Machines per Capita
- 31st – Lottery Sales per Capita
- 40th – % of Adults with Gambling Disorders
- 39th – Number of Gambling-Related Arrests per Capita
- 40th – Legality of Daily Fantasy Sports
- 18th – NCPG (National Council on Problem Gambling) Affiliation
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