Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Italian cuisine Audience in Australia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Italian cuisine in Australia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Italian cuisine has an estimated audience of 4,441,300 people in Australia.

#1among Cuisine in Australia
#324among Topic in Australia
#38in Food & Beverages

The average Italian cuisine fan in Australia is 43.2 years old, more female, and lives primarily in New South Wales.

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

Category: Food & Beverages · Type: Topic · Subtype: Cuisine

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 Italian cuisine profile in Australia.

Audience size
4.4M
in Australia
Gender
61.7%
38.3% male
Age
43.2
average years
Country rank
#460
Topic in Australia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+11%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Italian cuisine fans

61.7% are female, 38.3% are male, average age 43.2.

Fig. 02

Gender split

61.7%
Female
38.3%
Male
Demographic split for Italian cuisine audience in Australia
MetricValue
Female61.7%
Male38.3%
Average age43.2
Estimated audience size4,441,300
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 43.2
average years
Age distribution of the Italian cuisine audience in Australia
Age bracketShare%
16-1911%
20-2918%
30-3919%
40-4922%
50+30%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.7%

of the worldwide Italian cuisine audience comes from Australia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Italian cuisine
CountryShare
United States16.3%
Italy9.2%
Japan8.4%
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 Italian cuisine audience in Australia is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Italian cuisine fans by region: top regions in Australia
#RegionReachAffinity×
01South Australia~400K1.22×
02Western Australia~600K1.10×
03Victoria~1.5M1.09×
04New South Wales~1.5M1.01×
05Northern Territory~40K1.00×
06Australian Capital Territory~90K0.96×
07Tasmania~90K0.95×
08Queensland~900K0.84×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Australia who actively search for Italian cuisine. 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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