{"id":712866,"date":"2025-10-10T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/?p=712866"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:10:55","slug":"north-carolina-sees-september-sports-betting-handle-increase-but-decreased-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/betting\/north-carolina-sees-september-sports-betting-handle-increase-but-decreased-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Sees September Sports Betting Handle Increase, But Decreased Revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The North Carolina Lottery Commission reported $654.1 million in September online sports betting handle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&rsquo;s a nearly $115.7 million increase from September 2024&rsquo;s handle total<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, gross wagering revenue decreased year over year in September 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/us\/north-carolina\/\">North Carolina online sports betting<\/a> stormed into the football season, as the North Carolina Lottery Commission reported the second most ever bet this past September in a single month in the Tar Heel State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Carolina Lottery Commission reported $654,096,849 this past September. The total handle for the month was only eclipsed by the March 2025 online sports betting handle total of $667,058,573. <\/p><div class=\"\" data-freestar-ad=\"__300x250 __300x250\" id=\"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\">\n        <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n            freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({\n                placementName: \"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\",\n                slotId: \"sportsbettingdime_InContent_1\"\n            });\n        <\/script>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Year over year, September&rsquo;s online sports betting total saw a 21.5% increase over the September 2024 handle total of $538,367,688. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-revenues-decrease-year-over-year-in-september\">Revenues Decrease Year-Over-Year in September<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the $654.1 million in online sports betting handle, the lottery commission reported $66,763,867 in gross gaming revenues. While this was an increase of more than $12.6 million over the August revenue total, it was actually a decrease year-over-year from the September 2024 revenue total. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state reported $70,062,945 in gross gaming revenues in September 2024. Gross gaming revenue decreased by 4.8% in September 2025 compared with the September 2024 totals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At North Carolina&rsquo;s 18% tax rate on gross gaming revenues, North Carolina brought in $12,017,496 in tax revenues for September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rebounds-from-dreadful-august-numbers\">Rebounds from Dreadful August Numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>North Carolina sports bettors certainly flocked to their respective platforms in September more so than both July and August. While August featured gross gaming revenues of $9.7 million for the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/betting\/north-carolina-reports-least-profitable-month-of-sports-betting\/\">July was the least profitable month of sports betting<\/a> in the Tar Heel State&rsquo;s history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Carolina Lottery Commission reported just $22.6 million in gross gaming revenues for July, leading to just a shade over $4 million in sports betting tax revenue for the month. July&rsquo;s gross gaming revenue dropped by nearly $36 million from June&rsquo;s total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The July 2025 gross gaming revenue totals were nearly a $20 million drop from the July 2024 totals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the least profitable month of sports betting in the state&rsquo;s history. Prior to July 2024, August 2024 held the disconcerting record as it reported $33,747,320 in gross gaming revenue, which led to $6,074,518 in tax revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 2025 fiscal year, North Carolina reported $6.4 billion in total online sports betting handle, $647,693,353 in gross gaming revenue, and $116.6 million in sports betting tax revenues.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina online sports betting stormed into the football season, as the North Carolina Lottery Commission reported the second most ever bet this past September in a single month in the Tar Heel State. The North Carolina Lottery Commission reported $654,096,849 this past September. The total handle for the month was only eclipsed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/betting\/north-carolina-sees-september-sports-betting-handle-increase-but-decreased-revenues\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":713084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"website_editions":[],"website_editions_hreflang":[],"website_editions_default_edition":"us","website_editions_htmllang":"us","content_studio_integration_article_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[219383],"tags":[219434],"content_buckets":[219595],"class_list":["post-712866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","tag-north-carolina","content_buckets-content-bucket-betting-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713354,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712866\/revisions\/713354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712866"},{"taxonomy":"content_buckets","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_buckets?post=712866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}