A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Local food in France — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Local food has an estimated audience of 4,850,385 people in France.
The average Local food fan in France is 43.4 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Île-de-France.
The audience is concentrated in Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Top brand affinities include Lunch, Organic product, Diners, with strongest over-indexing on Lunch (6.59× the country average).
Demographically, the Local food audience skews more female with an average age of 43.4, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Design Affinity, Healthy Lifestyle.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 13 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical Local food fan in France is more female, around 43.4 years old, with strong Design Affinity tendencies and a notable affinity for Lunch.
The key figures that characterise the Local food profile in France.
60.8% are female, 39.2% are male, average age 43.4.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 60.8% |
| Male | 39.2% |
| Average age | 43.4 |
| Estimated audience size | 4,850,385 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 13% | |
| 20-29 | 18% | |
| 30-39 | 16% | |
| 40-49 | 19% | |
| 50+ | 34% |
of the worldwide Local food audience comes from France.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 18.0% |
| Japan | 9.7% |
| Italy | 5.7% |
Where the Local food audience in France is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | ~600K | 1.58× | |
| 02 | Corsica | ~30K | 1.14× | |
| 03 | Centre-Val de Loire | ~200K | 0.99× | |
| 04 | Normandy | ~200K | 0.98× | |
| 05 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | ~200K | 0.98× | |
| 06 | Pays de la Loire | ~300K | 0.96× | |
| 07 | Brittany | ~200K | 0.96× | |
| 08 | Occitanie | ~400K | 0.94× | |
| 09 | Grand Est | ~400K | 0.94× | |
| 10 | Île-de-France | ~800K | 0.93× | |
| 11 | Hauts-de-France | ~400K | 0.93× | |
| 12 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ~400K | 0.93× | |
| 13 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | ~500K | 0.92× |
The strongest cross-interests of the Local food audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Lunch | Food & Beverages | 6.59× | ||
| 02 | Online food ordering | Food & Beverages | 5.62× | ||
| 03 | Wine & Spirits | Food & Beverages | 5.41× | ||
| 04 | White wine | Food & Beverages | 5.11× | ||
| 05 | Cookbook | Food & Beverages | 5.03× | ||
| 06 | Drinking | Food & Beverages | 5.00× | ||
| 07 | Organic product | Food & Beverages | 4.71× | ||
| 08 | Diners | Food & Beverages | 4.31× | ||
| 09 | Vegetarian cuisine | Food & Beverages | 4.20× | ||
| 10 | Oven | Home & Garden | 4.13× | ||
| 11 | Fast casual restaurants | Food & Beverages | 4.09× | ||
| 12 | Decoration | Home & Garden | 3.51× | ||
| 13 | Pâtisserie | Food & Beverages | 3.32× | ||
| 14 | Health & wellness | Health | 3.30× | ||
| 15 | Culinary art | Arts & Culture | 3.24× | ||
| 16 | Vegetable | Food & Beverages | 2.60× | ||
| 17 | Wine | Food & Beverages | 2.44× | ||
| 18 | Ryanair | Travel & Leisure | 2.44× | ||
| 19 | Home improvement | Home & Garden | 2.05× | ||
| 20 | France | Travel & Leisure | 1.59× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Affinity | PREMIUM | 2.47× | |
| Healthy Lifestyle | BALANCE | 1.86× | |
| Sustainability | BALANCE | 1.79× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Need for Security | CONSERVATISM | 0.54× | |
| Patriotism | CONSERVATISM | 0.72× | |
| Convenience Orientation | PREMIUM | 0.96× |
Local food has an estimated audience of 4,850,385 people in France, concentrated in Île-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
60.8% of Local food fans are female, 39.2% are male, with an average age of 43.4 years.
Local food fans show strongest brand affinity for Lunch (6.59×), Organic product (4.71×), and Diners (4.31×) over the country average.
Local food fans in France are most concentrated in Île-de-France (reach ~800K), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (reach ~600K), and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (reach ~500K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond Local food itself, the audience over-indexes on Organic product (4.71×), Diners (4.31×), Vegetarian cuisine (4.2×), and Health & wellness (3.3×) compared to the France average.
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Audience size is the estimated number of people in France who actively search for Local food. 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.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across France. 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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