Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Home improvement Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Home improvement in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Home improvement has an estimated audience of 2,872,208 people in South Africa.

#47among Lifestyle cluster in South Africa
#96among Topic in South Africa
#6in Home & Garden

Home improvement has an estimated audience of 2,872,208 people in South Africa. 56.3% are female, 43.7% are male, average age 39.1. Top brand affinities: Home décor products, Sofa bed, Skilled worker, Kick start, Marco Rubio.

Top brand affinities include Home décor products, Sofa bed, Skilled worker, with strongest over-indexing on Home décor products (1.88× the country average).

Demographically, the Home improvement audience skews more female with an average age of 39.1, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Healthy Lifestyle.

The typical Home improvement fan in South Africa is more female, around 39.1 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for Home décor products.

Category: Home & Garden · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

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 Home improvement profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2.9M
in South Africa
Gender
56.3%
43.7% male
Age
39.1
average years
Country rank
#162
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+11%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Home improvement fans

56.3% are female, 43.7% are male, average age 39.1.

Fig. 02

Gender split

56.3%
Female
43.7%
Male
Demographic split for Home improvement audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female56.3%
Male43.7%
Average age39.1
Estimated audience size2,872,208
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.1
average years
Age distribution of the Home improvement audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1917%
20-2924%
30-3921%
40-4915%
50+22%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.6%

of the worldwide Home improvement audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Home improvement
CountryShare
United States22.2%
United Kingdom4.8%
Italy4.0%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Home improvement audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Home décor productsHome & Garden1.88×
02Chennai ExpressMovies & TV1.81×
03Circular sawHome & Garden1.70×
04LongchampFashion & Accessoires1.68×
05RangoliTravel & Leisure1.67×
06Tunisian crochetHome & Garden1.66×
07Kick startCars & Mobility1.64×
08Marco RubioPolitics & Society1.62×
09GroutHome & Garden1.61×
10The Family HandymanHome & Garden1.60×
11Semi-detachedHome & Garden1.58×
12Sofa bedHome & Garden1.57×
13Jim CourierSports1.57×
14Double-take (comedy)Movies & TV1.56×
15Color printingTechnology & Electronics1.56×
16Hacker (computer security)Technology & Electronics1.55×
17Skilled workerBusiness & Career1.54×
18SD CompostelaSports1.54×
19Northern ToolShopping1.53×
20Potting soilHome & Garden1.52×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Home improvement 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 Home improvement audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE1.00×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.79×
TravellingTHRILL0.76×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Home improvement audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.68×
Social Media UsageJOY0.74×
TravellingTHRILL0.76×
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 Home improvement. 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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