Rascasse Audience Intelligence

News.com.au Audience in Australia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about News.com.au in Australia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. News.com.au has an estimated audience of 10,604,720 people in Australia.

#3among Website / Newspaper / Magazine in Australia
#1in News

News.com.au has an estimated audience of 10,604,720 people in Australia. 56.3% are female, 43.7% are male, average age 43.5. Top brand affinities: Real property, Nicole Kidman, Bored Panda, Blanket, Scarlett Johansson.

Top brand affinities include Real property, Nicole Kidman, Bored Panda, with strongest over-indexing on Real property (1.84× the country average).

Demographically, the News.com.au audience skews more female with an average age of 43.5, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Tradition, Individualism.

The typical News.com.au fan in Australia is more female, around 43.5 years old, with strong Tradition tendencies and a notable affinity for Real property.

Category: News · Type: Website / Newspaper / Magazine

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 News.com.au profile in Australia.

Audience size
10.6M
in Australia
Gender
56.3%
43.7% male
Age
43.5
average years
Country rank
#63
Website / Newspaper / Magazine in Australia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-7%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Audience demographics of News.com.au

56.3% are female, 43.7% are male, average age 43.5.

Fig. 02

Gender split

56.3%
Female
43.7%
Male
Demographic split for News.com.au audience in Australia
MetricValue
Female56.3%
Male43.7%
Average age43.5
Estimated audience size10,604,720
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 43.5
average years
Age distribution of the News.com.au audience in Australia
Age bracketShare%
16-1910%
20-2918%
30-3920%
40-4923%
50+30%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

79.9%

of the worldwide News.com.au audience comes from Australia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for News.com.au
CountryShare
Australia79.9%
New Zealand3.0%
China1.5%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the News.com.au audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for News.com.au audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Nicole KidmanMovies & TV2.33×
02Bored PandaInternet & Social Media2.33×
03Scarlett JohanssonMovies & TV2.33×
04Demi MooreMovies & TV2.33×
05Kate HudsonMovies & TV2.33×
06Natalie PortmanMovies & TV2.33×
07Adriana LimaFashion & Accessoires2.33×
08Emma StoneMovies & TV2.33×
09DaisoFashion & Accessoires2.33×
10Titanic (1997 film)Movies & TV2.18×
11Suits (TV series)Movies & TV2.16×
12Nathan FillionMovies & TV2.07×
13Sabrina CarpenterMusic & Radio1.98×
14Google NewsNews1.94×
15Real propertyHome & Garden1.84×
16MSNNews1.74×
17BlanketHome & Garden1.59×
18Meghan MarkleFashion & Accessoires1.57×
19Bed sheetHome & Garden1.56×
20QuiltHome & Garden1.52×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the News.com.au 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 News.com.au audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TraditionCONSERVATISM1.11×
IndividualismJOY1.10×
SustainabilityBALANCE1.09×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by News.com.au audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL0.85×
Price SensitivityPREMIUM0.87×
Pet OwnershipJOY0.88×
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 News.com.au. 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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