Rascasse Audience Intelligence

American football Audience in Australia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about American football in Australia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. American football has an estimated audience of 4,166,506 people in Australia.

#7among Sport in Australia
#359among Topic in Australia
#28in Sports

The average American football fan in Australia is 38.7 years old, more male, and lives primarily in New South Wales.

The audience is concentrated in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland.

Top brand affinities include Mississippi State Bulldogs football, with strongest over-indexing on Mississippi State Bulldogs football (1.56× the country average).

Demographically, the American football audience skews more male with an average age of 38.7, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Social Media Usage.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 1 brand affinities and 8 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical American football fan in Australia is more male, around 38.7 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for Mississippi State Bulldogs football.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Sport

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the American football profile in Australia.

Audience size
4.2M
in Australia
Gender
39.8%
60.2% male
Age
38.7
average years
Country rank
#504
Topic in Australia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+14%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of American football fans

39.8% are female, 60.2% are male, average age 38.7.

Fig. 02

Gender split

39.8%
Female
60.2%
Male
Demographic split for American football audience in Australia
MetricValue
Female39.8%
Male60.2%
Average age38.7
Estimated audience size4,166,506
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 38.7
average years
Age distribution of the American football audience in Australia
Age bracketShare%
16-1921%
20-2921%
30-3919%
40-4919%
50+20%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.6%

of the worldwide American football audience comes from Australia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for American football
CountryShare
United States34.4%
Japan4.5%
Italy4.4%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Australia average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the American football audience in Australia is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

American football fans by region: top regions in Australia
#RegionReachAffinity×
01South Australia~400K1.24×
02Victoria~1.5M1.08×
03Western Australia~500K1.07×
04Australian Capital Territory~90K1.00×
05Tasmania~90K0.99×
06Northern Territory~40K0.95×
07New South Wales~1.5M0.93×
08Queensland~900K0.92×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the American football audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for American football audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Mississippi State Bulldogs footballSports1.56×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the American football audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by American football audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.92×
Social Media UsageJOY0.91×
Sports ActivityPOWER0.89×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by American football audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Quality AwarenessPREMIUM0.76×
IndulgenceJOY0.79×
Luxury OrientationPREMIUM0.80×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Australia who actively search for American football. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Australia. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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