Texas is one of the biggest lottery states in the country. Millions of tickets are sold here every week, and a lot of players want one thing: a clear breakdown of which Powerball numbers have come up most often. Not hype. Not predictions. Just the data.
This article pulls the full historical frequency record and lays out what the spread actually looks like.
How Powerball works in Texas
Powerball is a national game. Texas joined on January 31, 2010, and it quickly became one of the state's most-played lottery formats. The rules are the same here as in every other participating state: five white balls are drawn from a pool of 69, plus one Powerball from a pool of 26. Each combination has a 1 in 292,201,338 chance.
Because Powerball is national, the draw data is the same whether you live in Houston or Hartford. The Texas Lottery Commission reports sales and winners locally, but the numbers themselves come from the same central draws. That means when you look at frequency statistics, you're looking at the national record — the same record every Texas player is participating in.
The full draw frequency picture
Powerball switched to its current 5/69 white-ball matrix in October 2015. From that point through mid-2026, there have been roughly 1,365 draws in the current format. Over that span, each white ball number had about 99 expected appearances. Some came up more. Some came up less. The gap between the highest and lowest is what most people want to know about.
Counting appearances across those 1,365 draws, the most frequently drawn white ball is 61, which appeared 122 times. The least drawn is 13, which appeared 73 times. That's a 49-draw gap. On a ranked list, that looks significant. But ranked lists can be misleading.
In a truly random draw process with these parameters, statisticians would expect natural clustering. The numbers won't line up perfectly at 99 each. Some will ride high, others low, purely due to variance. The key question is whether the observed gap is larger than what randomness alone would produce.
Most drawn numbers
Beyond 61 at 122 appearances, other numbers that have appeared more frequently than average in the post-2015 matrix include 32, 39, and 69. These sit in the 110–120 appearance range. On a simple frequency table, they look like "hot" numbers.
But here's the catch: no statistical test has shown that these numbers are behaving outside the bounds of normal random variation. A chi-square test on the post-2015 frequency distribution returns a p-value of roughly 0.10. In standard statistical terms, that means there's about a 10 percent chance you'd see this much spread in a perfectly fair, random system. That is not strong enough evidence to call any number genuinely "hot." The top performers are almost certainly the upper end of statistical noise, not signals of bias.
So if you're looking at a frequency chart and thinking the top numbers are somehow luckier, the math doesn't support that interpretation. They've appeared more often in the past. That says nothing about future draws.
Least drawn numbers
On the other end of the table, 13 sits at 73 appearances in the current matrix era. Other numbers in the lower tier include 49, 34, and 26, all appearing in the 75–85 range.
The same logic applies in reverse. These are not "due." They are not cursed. They are simply the lower tail of the same random distribution that produced the higher counts. The gap between 122 and 73 is notable on a chart but not statistically out of range for this many draws.
This is important because a lot of players intentionally pick low-frequency numbers, assuming they're "overdue." That's the gambler's fallacy in another costume. Every draw is independent. The balls have no memory.
What the spread actually means
Over the full history of Powerball — more than 3,800 draws since 1992 — the overall variance between most-drawn and least-drawn numbers has stayed within the expected range for a fair random process. Regulators and independent auditors run statistical tests on this data regularly. No major US lottery has ever shown a sustained mechanical or procedural bias that produced outsized frequency anomalies.
In practical terms: the spread you see on a frequency table is real in the data but meaningless for prediction. It's the natural texture of randomness. Our brains are pattern-seeking machines, so a ranked list feels like it contains information. The math says it mostly contains noise.
A note for Texas players
Texas lottery players are some of the most active in the country. The state ranks consistently in the top three for total lottery sales and jackpot participation. When Texas joined Powerball in 2010, ticket sales jumped immediately — and they've stayed strong. The Texas Lottery Commission publishes annual reports showing that a meaningful slice of state revenue comes from lottery sales, which fund public education.
What this means for frequency data is simple: more tickets sold in Texas doesn't change the draw outcome. Powerball is national and random. The frequency table is the same whether you check it in Dallas or Denver. But Texans search for this data more than players in most other states, which is why this state-specific breakdown exists. The numbers are national. The framing is local.
Checking your own numbers
If you play specific numbers regularly — birthdays, anniversaries, or a set you've used for years — it's natural to wonder how they've performed historically. Have they ever shown up in a winning combination? How does their frequency compare to the average?
Those are fair questions, and the data can answer them. But the honest answer about prediction is the same: historical frequency doesn't forecast future results. It only tells a story about what already happened.
If you want to see the full draw history for any specific number back to Powerball's first game, you can check the complete frequency record and compare your own picks against the historical spread.
The bottom line
Texas Powerball numbers statistics show a spread between most-drawn and least-drawn numbers that looks dramatic on a chart but falls within the expected range for a fair random process. The most frequent number in the current matrix era is 61. The least frequent is 13. Neither is "hot" or "cold" in any statistically meaningful sense.
Frequency tables are interesting. They satisfy curiosity. They let you check your own picks. But they don't predict what comes next. Every draw starts fresh. Every number has the same probability.
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