Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Cooking Audience in Canada

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Cooking in Canada — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Cooking has an estimated audience of 14,995,622 people in Canada.

The average Cooking fan in Canada is 42.2 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Ontario.

The audience is concentrated in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec.

Demographically, the Cooking audience skews more female with an average age of 42.2, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Creativity, DIY Mentality.

Category: Food & Beverages · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Cooking profile in Canada.

Audience size
15M
in Canada
Gender
56.3%
43.7% male
Age
42.2
average years
Country rank
#48
Topic in Canada
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-15%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Cooking fans

56.3% are female, 43.7% are male, average age 42.2.

Fig. 02

Gender split

56.3%
Female
43.7%
Male
Demographic split for Cooking audience in Canada
MetricValue
Female56.3%
Male43.7%
Average age42.2
Estimated audience size14,995,622
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 42.2
average years
Age distribution of the Cooking audience in Canada
Age bracketShare%
16-1914%
20-2918%
30-3920%
40-4921%
50+28%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

2.3%

of the worldwide Cooking audience comes from Canada.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Cooking
CountryShare
United States20.2%
Japan4.6%
Italy4.6%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Canada average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Cooking audience in Canada is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Cooking fans by region: top regions in Canada
#RegionReachAffinity×
01British Columbia~3M1.42×
02Ontario~8.5M1.36×
03Nova Scotia~500K1.19×
04New Brunswick~400K1.06×
05Alberta~2M1.02×
06Saskatchewan~500K1.02×
07Manitoba~600K1.00×
08Quebec~3M0.88×
09Prince Edward Island~60K0.82×
10Newfoundland and Labrador~200K0.74×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Cooking 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 Cooking audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
CreativityOPEN1.01×
DIY MentalityTHRILL1.00×
Pet OwnershipJOY0.99×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Cooking audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.72×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.73×
Risk AppetiteTHRILL0.75×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Canada who actively search for Cooking. 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 Canada. 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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