A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about GitHub in India — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. GitHub has an estimated audience of 5,090,581 people in India.
The average GitHub fan in India is 27.3 years old, more male, and lives primarily in Maharashtra.
The audience is concentrated in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
Top brand affinities include PHP, Node.js, Linux, with strongest over-indexing on PHP (8.16× the country average).
Demographically, the GitHub audience skews more male with an average age of 27.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Need for Security, Career Orientation.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 29 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical GitHub fan in India is more male, around 27.3 years old, with strong Need for Security tendencies and a notable affinity for PHP.
The key figures that characterise the GitHub profile in India.
27.4% are female, 72.6% are male, average age 27.3.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 27.4% |
| Male | 72.6% |
| Average age | 27.3 |
| Estimated audience size | 5,090,581 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 53% | |
| 20-29 | 26% | |
| 30-39 | 10% | |
| 40-49 | 6% | |
| 50+ | 5% |
of the worldwide GitHub audience comes from India.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| China | 43.5% |
| United States | 9.7% |
| Japan | 6.0% |
Where the GitHub audience in India is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tamil Nadu | ~300K | 2.75× | |
| 02 | Andhra Pradesh | ~200K | 2.62× | |
| 03 | Telangana | ~200K | 2.33× | |
| 04 | Karnataka | ~300K | 2.10× | |
| 05 | Maharashtra | ~400K | 1.66× | |
| 06 | Gujarat | ~200K | 1.51× | |
| 07 | Punjab (region) | ~90K | 1.33× | |
| 08 | Madhya Pradesh | ~100K | 1.31× | |
| 09 | Uttarakhand | ~30K | 1.30× | |
| 10 | Kerala | ~90K | 1.14× | |
| 11 | Uttar Pradesh | ~300K | 1.07× | |
| 12 | Haryana | ~70K | 1.02× | |
| 13 | Odisha | ~50K | 0.91× | |
| 14 | West Bengal | ~100K | 0.88× | |
| 15 | Rajasthan | ~90K | 0.81× | |
| 16 | Jharkhand | ~30K | 0.78× | |
| 17 | Goa | ~4K | 0.75× | |
| 18 | Chhattisgarh | ~20K | 0.73× | |
| 19 | Himachal Pradesh | ~10K | 0.62× | |
| 20 | Bihar | ~60K | 0.57× | |
| 21 | Sikkim | ~1K | 0.53× | |
| 22 | Jammu and Kashmir | ~10K | 0.42× | |
| 23 | Assam | ~20K | 0.41× | |
| 24 | Manipur | ~2K | 0.38× | |
| 25 | Tripura | ~3K | 0.37× | |
| 26 | Mizoram | ~1K | 0.32× | |
| 27 | Nagaland | ~1K | 0.31× | |
| 28 | Arunachal Pradesh | <1K | 0.31× | |
| 29 | Meghalaya | ~2K | 0.29× |
The strongest cross-interests of the GitHub audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | AngularJS | Technology & Electronics | 9.74× | ||
| 02 | Development studies | Politics & Society | 9.68× | ||
| 03 | Stack Overflow | Technology & Electronics | 9.59× | ||
| 04 | Node.js | Technology & Electronics | 9.20× | ||
| 05 | MySQL | Technology & Electronics | 8.51× | ||
| 06 | PHP | Technology & Electronics | 8.16× | ||
| 07 | HTML | Technology & Electronics | 8.16× | ||
| 08 | SQL | Technology & Electronics | 7.79× | ||
| 09 | Broadcast engineering | Business & Career | 6.51× | ||
| 10 | C (programming language) | Technology & Electronics | 6.11× | ||
| 11 | C++ | Technology & Electronics | 5.88× | ||
| 12 | Linux | Technology & Electronics | 5.58× | ||
| 13 | JavaScript | Technology & Electronics | 5.33× | ||
| 14 | Python (programming language) | Technology & Electronics | 4.72× | ||
| 15 | Programming language | Technology & Electronics | 4.37× | ||
| 16 | Communication studies | Business & Career | 4.27× | ||
| 17 | Computer programming | Technology & Electronics | 3.70× | ||
| 18 | Information technology | Business & Career | 2.52× | ||
| 19 | Gemini | Technology & Electronics | 1.76× | ||
| 20 | Software | Technology & Electronics | 1.56× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Need for Security | CONSERVATISM | 1.74× | |
| Career Orientation | POWER | 1.38× | |
| Social Media Usage | JOY | 1.33× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extroversion | THRILL | 0.75× | |
| Tradition | CONSERVATISM | 0.82× | |
| DIY Mentality | THRILL | 0.83× |
GitHub has an estimated audience of 5,090,581 people in India, concentrated in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
27.4% of GitHub fans are female, 72.6% are male, with an average age of 27.3 years.
GitHub fans show strongest brand affinity for PHP (8.16×), Node.js (9.2×), and Linux (5.58×) over the country average.
GitHub fans in India are most concentrated in Maharashtra (reach ~400K), Tamil Nadu (reach ~300K), and Karnataka (reach ~300K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond GitHub itself, the audience over-indexes on Node.js (9.2×), Linux (5.58×), Development studies (9.68×), and MySQL (8.51×) compared to the India average.
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Audience size is the estimated number of people in India who actively search for GitHub. 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 India. 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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