Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Basketball Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Basketball in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Basketball has an estimated audience of 1,986,305 people in South Africa.

#3among Sport in South Africa
#209among Topic in South Africa
#25in Sports

Basketball has an estimated audience of 1,986,305 people in South Africa. 41.7% are female, 58.3% are male, average age 35.7. Top brand affinities: Denver Nuggets, Sparta Rotterdam, SC Cambuur, Jong PSV, Eredivisie.

Top brand affinities include Denver Nuggets, Sparta Rotterdam, SC Cambuur, with strongest over-indexing on Denver Nuggets (1.53× the country average).

Demographically, the Basketball audience skews more male with an average age of 35.7, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Patriotism.

The typical Basketball fan in South Africa is more male, around 35.7 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for Denver Nuggets.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Sport

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 Basketball profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2M
in South Africa
Gender
41.7%
58.3% male
Age
35.7
average years
Country rank
#313
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-6%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Basketball fans

41.7% are female, 58.3% are male, average age 35.7.

Fig. 02

Gender split

41.7%
Female
58.3%
Male
Demographic split for Basketball audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female41.7%
Male58.3%
Average age35.7
Estimated audience size1,986,305
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 35.7
average years
Age distribution of the Basketball audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1928%
20-2924%
30-3918%
40-4912%
50+18%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.5%

of the worldwide Basketball audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Basketball
CountryShare
United States24.3%
Japan5.1%
Italy4.5%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Basketball audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01university marylandBusiness & Career1.76×
02Faux pasLiterature1.71×
03Vince CarterSports1.65×
04Sparta RotterdamSports1.64×
05SC CambuurSports1.64×
06Jong PSVSports1.64×
07EredivisieSports1.64×
08FC DordrechtSports1.64×
09TOP OssSports1.64×
10Eerste DivisieSports1.64×
11Jong FC UtrechtSports1.64×
12FC Differdingen 03Sports1.64×
13Excelsior RotterdamSports1.64×
14Helmond SportSports1.64×
15RAAL La LouvièreSports1.64×
16Jong AZSports1.64×
17SK BeverenSports1.64×
18Mobutu Sese SekoPolitics & Society1.55×
19Denver NuggetsSports1.53×
20BlooperHome & Garden1.53×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Basketball 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 Basketball audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE0.66×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.65×
Social Media UsageJOY0.58×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Basketball audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.45×
TravellingTHRILL0.53×
Social Media UsageJOY0.58×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Basketball. 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 South Africa. 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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