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California (62) and New York (44) lead 340 celeb-seasons with state data.
Ballroom Data · Artometrics-style report · Nov 3, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles)
Headline
California (62) and New York (44) dominate hometowns among 340 celeb-seasons with a state on file (45 distinct state/region strings). This is a casting geography chart, not a skill chart — though mean scores for top states are included for curiosity.
Top states
| State | Celeb-seasons |
|---|---|
| California | 62 |
| New York | 44 |
| Texas | 23 |
| Florida | 16 |
| Illinois | 15 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 |
| Ohio | 13 |
| Georgia | 12 |
| New Jersey | 9 |
| Michigan | 9 |
| Kentucky | 8 |
| Alabama | 7 |
| Louisiana | 7 |
| Massachusetts | 6 |
| Maryland | 6 |
Methods & caveats
Hometown state from Kaggle demographics. International celebs may list a country in hometown_country instead; those are not on this state chart. S33–35 mostly missing.
Coverage: seasons 1–35; 3,602 performances; 11,027 individual judge marks in the cleaned Ballroom Data SQLite build (Nov 3, 2026, America/Los_Angeles).
Known gaps: Season 31 Mirrorball winner is not tagged as Winners in the performance table (Charli D’Amelio / Mark Ballas is missing from our winners extract). Seasons 33–35 largely lack Kaggle ages/hometowns. Season 35 celebrity names in the wiki scrape are often first-name-only or garbled. Dance-style strings still include some unclean variants. We never impute missing values.
Sources: howisonlab/dwts_dataset (GitHub); Kaggle brupley/dancing-with-the-stars-dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wikipedia DWTS season pages for seasons 32–35 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Scores are per-judge means on a 0–10 scale so 3-judge and 4-judge weeks are comparable. Marathons/relays/megamixes are excluded from style averages unless noted.
Disclaimer: Unofficial fan analysis. Not affiliated with BBC Worldwide, Disney, or ABC.
Downloads
Quarto source, rendered report, chart exports (PNG/SVG), and the analysis CSV.
