Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Italian cuisine Audience in Canada

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Italian cuisine in Canada — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Italian cuisine has an estimated audience of 4,925,603 people in Canada.

#1among Cuisine in Canada#334among Topic in Canada#46in Food & Beverages

The average Italian cuisine fan in Canada is 40.3 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Ontario.

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

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 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Italian cuisine profile in Canada.

Audience size
4.9M
in Canada
Gender
58.2%♀
41.8% male
Age
40.3
average years
Country rank
#492
Topic in Canada
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+71%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Italian cuisine fans

58.2% are female, 41.8% are male, average age 40.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

58.2%
Female
41.8%
Male
Demographic split for Italian cuisine audience in Canada
MetricValue
Female58.2%
Male41.8%
Average age40.3
Estimated audience size4,925,603
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 40.3
average years
Age distribution of the Italian cuisine audience in Canada
Age bracketShare%
16-1918%
20-2919%
30-3918%
40-4920%
50+24%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.9%

of the worldwide Italian cuisine audience comes from Canada.

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 Canada average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Italian cuisine audience in Canada is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Italian cuisine fans by region: top regions in Canada
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Ontario~3.5M1.72×
02British Columbia~900K1.20×
03Alberta~700K1.15×
04Prince Edward Island~30K1.04×
05Manitoba~200K0.97×
06Newfoundland and Labrador~70K0.96×
07Saskatchewan~100K0.95×
08New Brunswick~100K0.95×
09Nova Scotia~100K0.92×
10Quebec~900K0.77×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Canada 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 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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