Most Common Australia Powerball Numbers

Updated after every draw, last draw on 29 October 2026

Which Australia Powerball numbers come up the most? Are some numbers "hot", and are others "due"? We counted every number drawn in all 446 draws since 19 April 2018, when the current numbers started. And then we checked whether any of it actually means something. Let's find out!

1. The most and least common numbers
2. The most common Powerball numbers
3. Hot and cold numbers
4. The most common pairs
5. Does any of this mean anything?

The most and least common numbers

In Australia Powerball, 7 numbers are drawn from 35. So over 446 draws, each number should have come up around 89 times. Here's how they actually did.

Number 9 leads the way with 103 draws, while number 31 has only come up 71 times. That's quite a gap! But before you rush to play 9, hold that thought: we'll see why in a moment.

The most common Powerball numbers

The Powerball is drawn from a separate barrel of 20 numbers. Over 446 draws, each should have come up around 22 times.

The most common Powerball is 2, drawn 31 times, and the least common is 12, with 13.

Hot and cold numbers

"Hot" numbers are the ones that have come up the most lately, and "cold" numbers are the ones that haven't been drawn for a while. Some players swear by them, either riding the hot streak or betting that a cold number is due.

Here's the thing though: the balls have no memory. A number that came up three times last month is no more likely to come up tonight, and a number that hasn't been drawn in 18 draws isn't any closer to being "due". Every draw starts from scratch.

The most common pairs

Which two numbers have come up together the most?

With 595 possible pairs, a few were always going to come up together more often than the rest. Just like the numbers on their own, it's chance at work.

Does any of this mean anything?

Probably not, and we can check! Even with perfectly random balls, some numbers come up more than others. Flip a coin 100 times and you'll rarely get exactly 50 heads. The real question is whether the gaps are bigger than chance alone would produce.

Statisticians answer that with a chi-square test. For the 446 draws above, it tells us that perfectly random balls would give a spread at least this uneven 79% of the time. In other words, nothing out of the ordinary: the numbers are just as random as they should be.

The same goes for the Powerball numbers: a spread at least this uneven would happen 29% of the time.

So the most common numbers aren't any more likely to be drawn next, and the least common ones aren't due either. Every combination has exactly the same chance. Want to put that to the test? Play your favourite numbers thousands of times in our Australia Powerball simulator, for free.