Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Coffee Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Coffee in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Coffee has an estimated audience of 2,363,899 people in South Africa.

#156among Topic in South Africa
#16in Food & Beverages

Coffee has an estimated audience of 2,363,899 people in South Africa. 58.0% are female, 42.0% are male, average age 37.6. Top brand affinities: Cottage pie, Boston College, Meze, Croquette, Thermos.

Top brand affinities include Cottage pie, Boston College, Meze, with strongest over-indexing on Cottage pie (1.59× the country average).

Demographically, the Coffee audience skews more female with an average age of 37.6, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Healthy Lifestyle.

The typical Coffee fan in South Africa is more female, around 37.6 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for Cottage pie.

Category: Food & Beverages · Type: Topic

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 Coffee profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2.4M
in South Africa
Gender
58.0%
42.0% male
Age
37.6
average years
Country rank
#239
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-44%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Coffee fans

58.0% are female, 42.0% are male, average age 37.6.

Fig. 02

Gender split

58.0%
Female
42.0%
Male
Demographic split for Coffee audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female58.0%
Male42.0%
Average age37.6
Estimated audience size2,363,899
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 37.6
average years
Age distribution of the Coffee audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1922%
20-2925%
30-3919%
40-4914%
50+20%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.6%

of the worldwide Coffee audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Coffee
CountryShare
United States18.9%
Japan4.7%
United Kingdom4.2%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Coffee audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01CroquetteFood & Beverages2.09×
02Corned beefFood & Beverages1.88×
03ThermosHome & Garden1.82×
04Kaffee HagFood & Beverages1.82×
05MezeFood & Beverages1.67×
06Drink mixFood & Beverages1.60×
07Cottage pieFood & Beverages1.59×
08AsdaShopping1.59×
09Boston CollegeBusiness & Career1.58×
109 to 5 (musical)Music & Radio1.57×
11Pepper steakTopic1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Coffee 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 Coffee audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE0.95×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.70×
TravellingTHRILL0.68×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Coffee audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Social Media UsageJOY0.67×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.67×
TravellingTHRILL0.68×
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 Coffee. 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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