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North Carolina Lottery Sales and Revenue by Year
The North Carolina lottery sold $5.38B in tickets in fiscal year 2024, up 24% from the year before. It transferred $1.19B to the state, 22% of sales, and paid 71% of sales back as prizes. Its sales were the 6th largest of the 45 state lotteries that year.
Sales peaked in FY2024 at $5.38B. Figures are state fiscal years from the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State Government Finances, FY2012 to FY2024.
FY2012–FY2024 · Source: U.S. Census Bureau · North Carolina lottery
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Data
| Fiscal year | Ticket sales | Prizes | Administration | Transfers to the state | Prizes as share of sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $5.38B | $3.80B | $385M | $1.19B | 70.7% |
| FY2023 | $4.34B | $2.86B | $384M | $1.10B | 65.9% |
| FY2022 | $3.89B | $2.54B | $339M | $1.00B | 65.4% |
| FY2021 | $3.47B | $2.46B | $75.1M | $935M | 70.9% |
| FY2020 | $2.75B | $1.96B | $68.1M | $725M | 71.1% |
| FY2019 | $2.62B | $1.85B | $62.6M | $707M | 70.6% |
| FY2018 | $2.38B | $1.65B | $62.9M | $669M | 69.2% |
| FY2017 | $2.22B | $1.54B | $54.3M | $621M | 69.5% |
| FY2016 | $2.22B | $1.49B | $95.3M | $631M | 67.2% |
| FY2015 | $1.83B | $1.23B | $81.4M | $522M | 67.1% |
| FY2014 | $1.71B | $1.14B | $76.4M | $499M | 66.4% |
| FY2013 | $1.57B | $1.02B | $72.2M | $474M | 65.2% |
| FY2012 | $1.48B | $961M | $68.1M | $455M | 64.8% |
Notes
Transfers to the state are lottery proceeds the Census Bureau counts as income to the state; some states route part of them to dedicated funds.
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