The PSA Pop Report, Explained: How to Use It to Price a Card

The PSA population report lists every card PSA has graded, with a count for each grade. It is free to search on PSA’s site and updated daily.

How to look up a card

• Search for the exact set: year and brand, e.g. "1979 O-Pee-Chee Hockey", not just the player.

• Find the card number in the set list. Variations, parallels and printings (O-Pee-Chee vs Topps, English vs Japanese Pokémon) are listed separately.

• Read across the row: how many copies at each grade, and how many higher than a given grade.

What the numbers tell you

Low population at the top grade means scarcity. Only two 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookies had graded PSA 10 when one sold for $3.75 million in 2021. Of 5,325 1st Edition Base Set Charizards PSA had graded by December 2025, 124 were PSA 10s.

The pop report counts cards that have been graded, not all the cards that exist. A card with a low population can simply be one nobody has bothered to grade yet. And people resubmit cards hoping for a higher grade, which can count the same card more than once.

Use it with sold prices

Pop tells you how scarce a grade is; recent sales tell you what people pay for it. You need both. See how to price your cards and whether grading is worth the fee.