Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Mystery fiction Audience in Australia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Mystery fiction in Australia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Mystery fiction has an estimated audience of 2,544,789 people in Australia.

#5among Literary genre in Australia
#746among Topic in Australia
#21in Literature

The average Mystery fiction fan in Australia is 44.0 years old, more female, and lives primarily in New South Wales.

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

Category: Literature · Type: Topic · Subtype: Literary genre

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 Mystery fiction profile in Australia.

Audience size
2.5M
in Australia
Gender
70.0%
30.0% male
Age
44.0
average years
Country rank
#1031
Topic in Australia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-56%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Mystery fiction fans

70.0% are female, 30.0% are male, average age 44.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

70.0%
Female
30.0%
Male
Demographic split for Mystery fiction audience in Australia
MetricValue
Female70.0%
Male30.0%
Average age44.0
Estimated audience size2,544,789
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 44.0
average years
Age distribution of the Mystery fiction audience in Australia
Age bracketShare%
16-1912%
20-2916%
30-3916%
40-4921%
50+34%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.9%

of the worldwide Mystery fiction audience comes from Australia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Mystery fiction
CountryShare
United States21.7%
United Kingdom5.3%
China4.0%
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 Mystery fiction audience in Australia is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Mystery fiction fans by region: top regions in Australia
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Tasmania~70K1.19×
02Australian Capital Territory~60K1.14×
03South Australia~200K0.96×
04Western Australia~300K0.94×
05Queensland~500K0.91×
06Victoria~700K0.89×
07New South Wales~800K0.86×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Australia who actively search for Mystery fiction. 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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