In the first season, each rating point is equivalent to 942,000 TV households. In the second season, one rating point represents 954,000 households. Then, until the sixth season, there are an estimated 95.9 million television households in the US. A single ratings point represents 1%, or 959,000 households. During the sixth season, there are an estimated 99.4 million television households and one point represents 994,000. During the eighth season, there are an estimated 102.2 million television households and one point represents 1,022,000 households. In the ninth season, there are an estimated 105.5 million television households and one point represents 1,055,000 households. Not that the change is much to care about, but... Share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to a specific program. Please note that some information from early seasons were not available. All the numbers refer to the episodes' premieres, repeats were not included. Source: Nielsen Media Research, superthanks go to Jamie for providing the exact numbers.

Episode name	Rating	Share	Households	Viewers
Pilot (The X-Files)	7.9	15	7,441,000	7,900,000
Deep Throat	7.3	14	6,877,000	7,300,000
Squeeze	7.2	13	6,782,000	7,200,000
Conduit	6.3	11	5,935,000	6,300,000
The Jersey Devil	6.6	12	6,217,000	6,600,000
Shadows	5.9	11	5,558,000	5,900,000
Ghost in the Machine	5.9	11	5,558,000	5,900,000
Ice	6.6	11	6,217,000	6,600,000
Space	6.5	11	6,123,000	6,500,000
Fallen Angel	5.4	9	5,087,000	5,400,000
Eve	6.8	12	6,406,000	6,800,000
Fire	6.8	12	6,406,000	6,800,000
Beyond the Sea	6.6	11	6,217,000	6,600,000
GenderBender	7.2	11	6,782,000	7,200,000
Lazarus	7.6	12	7,159,000	7,600,000
Young at Heart	7.2	11	6,782,000	7,200,000
E.B.E.	6.2	9	5,840,000	6,200,000
Miracle Man	7.5	13	7,065,000	7,500,000
Shapes	7.6	14	7,159,000	7,600,000
Darkness Falls	8.0	14	7,536,000	8,000,000
Tooms	8.6	15	8,101,000	8,600,000
Born Again	8.2	14	7,724,000	8,200,000
Roland	7.9	14	7,442,000	7,900,000
Erlenmeyer Flask	8.8	16	8,290,000	8,800,000
Season Averages	7.0	12.3	6,696,000	7,100,000
Little Green Men	10.3	19	9,826,000	10,300,000
The Host	9.8	17	9,349,000	9,800,000
Blood	9.1	16	8,681,000	9,100,000
Sleepless	8.6	15	8,204,000	8,600,000
Duane Barry	8.9	16	8,491,000	8,900,000
Ascension	9.6	16	9,158,000	9,600,000
3	9.4	16	8,968,000	9,400,000
One Breath	9.5	16	9,063,000	9,500,000
Firewalker	9.0	16	8,586,000	9,000,000
Red Museum	10.4	18	9,922,000	10,400,000
Excelsius Dei	8.9	15	8,491,000	8,900,000
Aubrey	10.2	16	9,731,000	10,200,000
Irresistible	9.2	15	8,777,000	9,200,000
Die Hand Die Verletzt	10.7	18	10,208,000	10,700,000
Fresh Bones	11.3	19	10,780,000	11,300,000
Colony	10.3	17	9,826,000	10,300,000
End Game	11.2	19	10,685,000	11,200,000
Fearful Symmetry	10.1	17	9,635,000	10,100,000
Dod Kalm	10.7	18	10,208,000	10,700,000
Humbug	10.3	18	9,826,000	10,300,000
The Calusari	8.3	16	7,918,000	8,300,000
F. Emasculata	8.9	16	8,491,000	8,900,000
Soft Light	8.5	15	8,109,000	8,500,000
Our Town	9.4	17	8,968,000	9,400,000
Anasazi	10.1	18	9,635,000	10,100,000
Season Averages	9.7	16.8	9,261,000	9,700,000
The Blessing Way	12.3		11,796,000	19,900,000
Paper Clip	11.1		10,645,000	17,200,000
D.P.O.	10.9		10,453,000	15,600,000
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose	10.2		9,782,000	15,400,000
The List	10.8		10,357,000	16,800,000
2Shy	10.2		9,782,000	14,800,000
The Walk	10.4		9,974,000	15,900,000
Oubliette	10.2		9,782,000	15,900,000
Nisei	9.8		9,398,000	16,400,000
731	12.1		11,604,000	17,700,000
Revelations	10.0		9,590,000	15,200,000
War of the Coprophages	10.1		9,686,000	16,300,000
Syzygy	10.8		10,357,000	16,000,000
Grotesque	11.6		11,124,000	18,300,000
Piper Maru	10.6		10,165,000	16,400,000
Apocrypha	10.8		10,357,000	16,700,000
Pusher	10.8		10,357,000	16,200,000
Teso Dos Bichos	10.7		10,261,000	17,400,000
Hell Money	9.9		9,494,000	14,900,000
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'	10.5		10,070,000	16,100,000
Avatar	9.3		8,919,000	14,600,000
Quagmire	10.2		9,782,000	16,000,000
Wetwired	9.7		9,302,000	14,500,000
Talitha Cumi	11.2		10,741,000	17,900,000
Season Averages	10.6		10,157,000	16,900,000
Herrenvolk	13.2	23	12,659,000	21,100,000
Unruhe	11.7		11,220,000	19,100,000
Home	11.9	21	11,412,000	18,800,000
Teliko	11.3	20	10,837,000	18,000,000
The Field Where I Died	12.3	18	11,796,000	19,800,000
Sanguinarium	11.1	16	10,645,000	18,800,000
Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man	10.7		10,261,000	17,100,000
Paper Hearts	10.7	16	10,261,000	16,600,000
Tunguska	12.2	18	11,670,000	18,800,000
Terma	10.6		10,165,000	17,300,000
El Mundo Gira	13.3	19	12,755,000	22,400,000
Kaddish	10.3		9,878,000	16,600,000
Never Again	13.0	19	12,467,000	21,400,000
Leonard Betts	17.2	29	16,495,000	29,100,000
Memento Mori	11.5	17	11,029,000	19,100,000
Unrequited	10.9	16	10,453,000	16,600,000
Tempus Fugit	11.9	18	11,412,000	18,800,000
Max	11.6	18	11,124,000	18,300,000
Synchrony	11.3	17	10,837,000	18,100,000
Small Potatoes	13.0	20	12,467,000	20,900,000
Zero Sum	11.7	17	11,220,000	18,600,000
Elegy	10.6		10,165,000	17,100,000
Demons	11.8	18	11,316,000	19,100,000
Gethsemane	12.7	19	12,179,000	19,800,000
Season Averages	11.9	18.9	11,424,000	19,200,000
Unusual Suspects	13.0	19	12,467,000	21,700,000
Redux	16.1	22	15,440,000	27,300,000
Redux II	15.6	22	14,960,000	24,800,000
Detour	13.2	19	12,659,000	22,800,000
Christmas Carol	12.8	19	12,275,000	20,900,000
The Post-Modern Prometheus	11.5	16	11,029,000	18,700,000
Emily	12.4	19	11,892,000	20,900,000
Kitsunegari	11.6	17	11,410,000	19,700,000
Schizogeny	12.9	19	12,630,000	21,300,000
Chinga	12.7	18	12,420,000	21,300,000
Kill Switch	11.1		11,700,000	18,000,000
Bad Blood	12.0	17	11,720,000	19,200,000
Patient X	12.6	19	12,330,000	20,200,000
The Red and the Black	12.0	18	11,750,000	20,000,000
Travelers	9.9	15	9,494,000	15,000,000
Mind's Eye	10.4	16	10,200,000	16,500,000
All Souls	8.5		8,152,000	13,400,000
Pine Bluff Variant	11.4	18	11,160,000	18,200,000
Folie a Deux	11.0	17	10,740,000	17,600,000
The End	11.9	20	11,660,000	18,800,000
Season Averages	12.1	18.3	11,780,000	19,800,000
The Beginning	11.9	17	11,860,000	20,300,000
Drive	11.0	16	10,970,000	18,500,000
Triangle	10.8	16	10,720,000	18,200,000
Dreamland	10.1	15	10,050,000	17,500,000
Dreamland II	10.0	15	9,960,000	17,000,000
Terms of Endearment	10.5	15	10,470,000	18,700,000
The Rain King	12.5	18	12,430,000	21,200,000
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas	10.6	16	10,490,000	17,300,000
Tithonus	9.2	13	9,140,000	15,900,000
S.R. 819	9.1		9,045,000	15,700,000
Two Fathers	11.5	16	11,458,000	18,800,000
One Son	10.1	16	10,039,000	16,600,000
Arcadia	10.5	16	10,453,000	17,900,000
Agua Mala	10.1		10,039,000	16,900,000
Monday	10.2		10,138,000	16,700,000
Alpha	10.1	15	10,005,000	17,700,000
Trevor	10.4	16	10,296,000	17,600,000
Milagro	9.0	14	8,949,000	15,200,000
Three of a Kind	8.2	12	8,150,000	12,900,000
The Unnatural	10.1	15	10,082,000	16,900,000
Field Trip	9.5	15	9,431,000	15,400,000
Biogenesis	9.4	14	9,328,000	15,900,000
Season Averages	10.2	15.3	10,159,000	17,200,000
Hungry	9.6	14	9,677,000	16,180,000
The Goldberg Variation	8.8	13	8,870,000	14,490,000
The Sixth Extinction	10.6	15	10,693,000	18,760,000
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati	10.6	14	10,536,000	16,150,000
Millennium	9.1	13	9,173,000	15,040,000
Rush	7.9	11	7,963,000	12,710,000
Orison	9.4	14	9,475,000	15,630,000
The Amazing Maleeni	9.4	14	9,475,000	16,180,000
Signs and Wonders	8.5	12	8,568,000	13,800,000
Sein und Zeit	8.4	12	8,467,000	13,950,000
Closure	9.1	13	9,173,000	15,360,000
X-Cops	9.7	14	9,778,000	16,560,000
First Person Shooter	9.3	13	9,374,000	15,310,000
Theef	7.4	11	7,459,000	11,920,000
En Ami	7.5	11	7,560,000	11,990,000
Chimera	7.5	11	7,560,000	12,890,000
all things	7.5	11	7,560,000	12,190,000
Hollywood A.D.	7.7	12	7,762,000	12,890,000
Brand X	6.8	10	6,854,000	10,810,000
Fight Club	6.9	11	6,955,000	11,700,000
Je Souhaite	8.2	13	8,266,000	12,790,000
Requiem	8.9	14	8,971,000	15,300,000
Season Averages	8.6	12.5	8,644,000	14,209,000
Within	9.5	13	9,709,000	15,870,000
Without	9.0	13	9,198,000	15,150,000
Redrum	8.1	12	8,278,000	13,210,000
Patience	8.2	12	8,380,000	13,340,000
Roadrunners	8.3	12	8,483,000	13,600,000
Invocation	8.2	12	8,380,000	13,890,000
Via Negativa	7.3	10	7,461,000	12,370,000
Per Manum	9.4	14	9,607,000	16,900,000
Surekill	8.0	12	8,176,000	13,300,000
Salvage	7.1	10	7,256,000	11,690,000
The Gift	8.8	13	8,994,000	14,580,000
Badlaa	7.3	10	7,461,000	11,870,000
Medusa	8.2	13	8,380,000	13,800,000
This Is Not Happening	10.6	15	10,833,000	16,800,000
DeadAlive	7.3	11	7,461,000	12,570,000
Vienen	7.4	11	7,563,000	11,800,000
Empedocles	7.3	11	7,461,000	12,460,000
Three Words	7.6	12	7,767,000	12,200,00
Alone	7.5	11	7,665,000	12,720,000
Essence	7.7	12	7,869,000	12,810,000
Existence	8.4	13	8,585,000	14,100,000
Season Averages	8.2	12	8,332,000	13,573,000
Nothing Important Happened Today	6.5	10	6,858,000	10,600,000
Nothing Important Happened Today II	5.9	9	6,225,000	9,400,000
Daemonicus	5.5	8	5,803,000	8,700,000
Hellbound	5.1	7	5,381,000	7,800,000
4-D	5.1	8	5,381,000	8,700,000
Lord of the Flies	6.2	9	6,541,000	9,900,000
John Doe	5.0	7	5,275,000	8,700,000
Trust No 1	5.1	7	5,381,000	8,400,000
Underneath	4.4	7	4,642,000	7,300,000
Provenance	5.5	8	5,803,000	9,700,000
Providence	5.2	7	5,486,000	8,400,000
Scary Monsters	5.1	8	5,381,000	8,200,000
Audrey Pauley	4.8	7	5,064,000	8,000,000
Improbable	5.2	8	5,486,000	8,600,000
Jump the Shark	5.1	8	5,381,000	8,600,000
Release	5.1	8	5,381,000	7,800,000
William	5.8	9	6,119,000	9,700,000
Sunshine Days	6.2	10	6,541,000	10,300,000
The Truth	7.5	12	7,913,000	13,200,000