A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Country music in Australia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Country music has an estimated audience of 4,402,612 people in Australia.
The average Country music fan in Australia is 43.8 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Queensland.
The audience is concentrated in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.
Top brand affinities include Retirement community, Old age, American folk music, with strongest over-indexing on Retirement community (1.82× the country average).
Demographically, the Country music audience skews more female with an average age of 43.8, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Community Orientation, Family Orientation.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 8 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical Country music fan in Australia is more female, around 43.8 years old, with strong Community Orientation tendencies and a notable affinity for Retirement community.
The key figures that characterise the Country music profile in Australia.
55.9% are female, 44.1% are male, average age 43.8.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 55.9% |
| Male | 44.1% |
| Average age | 43.8 |
| Estimated audience size | 4,402,612 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 13% | |
| 20-29 | 15% | |
| 30-39 | 15% | |
| 40-49 | 21% | |
| 50+ | 34% |
of the worldwide Country music audience comes from Australia.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 28.8% |
| Brazil | 8.9% |
| Italy | 5.3% |
Where the Country music audience in Australia is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Northern Territory | ~50K | 1.33× | |
| 02 | Tasmania | ~100K | 1.28× | |
| 03 | Queensland | ~1.5M | 1.23× | |
| 04 | South Australia | ~300K | 0.87× | |
| 05 | Western Australia | ~400K | 0.84× | |
| 06 | Australian Capital Territory | ~70K | 0.79× | |
| 07 | New South Wales | ~1M | 0.78× | |
| 08 | Victoria | ~900K | 0.65× |
The strongest cross-interests of the Country music audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Neil Diamond | Music & Radio | 2.14× | ||
| 02 | Midland | Music & Radio | 1.92× | ||
| 03 | Keith Urban | Music & Radio | 1.89× | ||
| 04 | Western riding | Sports | 1.89× | ||
| 05 | John Farnham | Music & Radio | 1.84× | ||
| 06 | Retirement community | Kids & Family | 1.82× | ||
| 07 | Sarah, Duchess of York | Literature | 1.82× | ||
| 08 | MerQury | Music & Radio | 1.73× | ||
| 09 | Princess Cruises | Travel & Leisure | 1.70× | ||
| 10 | American folk music | Music & Radio | 1.67× | ||
| 11 | River cruise | Travel & Leisure | 1.65× | ||
| 12 | Beef cattle | Pets & Animals | 1.64× | ||
| 13 | Rockabilly | Fashion & Accessoires | 1.64× | ||
| 14 | Jimmy Barnes | Music & Radio | 1.61× | ||
| 15 | Shoe insert | Health | 1.61× | ||
| 16 | Old age | Politics & Society | 1.56× | ||
| 17 | Richard Marx | Music & Radio | 1.56× | ||
| 18 | Arthritis awareness | Health | 1.54× | ||
| 19 | Flea market | Home & Garden | 1.54× | ||
| 20 | Macaulay Culkin | Movies & TV | 1.52× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Orientation | OPEN | 1.16× | |
| Family Orientation | CONSERVATISM | 1.11× | |
| Creativity | OPEN | 1.09× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Appetite | THRILL | 0.82× | |
| Luxury Orientation | PREMIUM | 0.85× | |
| Career Orientation | POWER | 0.86× |
Country music has an estimated audience of 4,402,612 people in Australia, concentrated in Queensland and New South Wales.
55.9% of Country music fans are female, 44.1% are male, with an average age of 43.8 years.
Country music fans show strongest brand affinity for Retirement community (1.82×), Old age (1.56×), and American folk music (1.67×) over the country average.
Country music fans in Australia are most concentrated in Queensland (reach ~1.5M), New South Wales (reach ~1M), and Victoria (reach ~900K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond Country music itself, the audience over-indexes on Old age (1.56×), American folk music (1.67×), Keith Urban (1.89×), and Arthritis awareness (1.54×) compared to the Australia average.
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Audience size is the estimated number of people in Australia who actively search for Country music. 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.
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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