Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Jazz music Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Jazz music in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Jazz music has an estimated audience of 1,999,844 people in South Africa.

#7among Musical genre in South Africa
#207among Topic in South Africa
#14in Music & Radio

Jazz music has an estimated audience of 1,999,844 people in South Africa. 49.8% are female, 50.2% are male, average age 36.0. Top brand affinities: Lyric poetry, Free jazz, Musiq Soulchild, Love Hurts, Rigby, Idaho.

Top brand affinities include Lyric poetry, Free jazz, Musiq Soulchild, with strongest over-indexing on Lyric poetry (1.52× the country average).

Demographically, the Jazz music audience skews balanced with an average age of 36.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Travelling.

The typical Jazz music fan in South Africa is balanced, around 36.0 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for Lyric poetry.

Category: Music & Radio · Type: Topic · Subtype: Musical genre

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 Jazz music profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2M
in South Africa
Gender
49.8%
50.2% male
Age
36.0
average years
Country rank
#311
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-21%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Jazz music fans

49.8% are female, 50.2% are male, average age 36.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

49.8%
Female
50.2%
Male
Demographic split for Jazz music audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female49.8%
Male50.2%
Average age36.0
Estimated audience size1,999,844
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 36.0
average years
Age distribution of the Jazz music audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1927%
20-2925%
30-3918%
40-4911%
50+19%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.6%

of the worldwide Jazz music audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Jazz music
CountryShare
United States22.4%
Brazil5.2%
Japan4.8%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Jazz music audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01InezMusic & Radio1.88×
02Ascona Jazz FestivalMusic & Radio1.88×
03Free jazzMusic & Radio1.82×
04Musiq SoulchildMusic & Radio1.69×
05Big Ten ConferenceSports1.68×
06May DayMusic & Radio1.65×
07Jazz standardMusic & Radio1.64×
08Rigby, IdahoShopping1.54×
09Lyric poetryLiterature1.52×
10Shawn LeeMusic & Radio1.52×
11Alicja MajewskaMusic & Radio1.52×
12Krzysztof CugowskiMusic & Radio1.52×
13Love HurtsMusic & Radio1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Jazz music 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 Jazz music audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE0.81×
TravellingTHRILL0.67×
Social Media UsageJOY0.66×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Jazz music audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.50×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.63×
Social Media UsageJOY0.66×
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 Jazz music. 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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