Australia Council compares arts engagement data by suburb, plus ticketing, jobs and business trends

The Australia Council has launched a new interactive resource called The Electorate Profiles which brings together research on arts engagement, employment and ticketing trends across Australia.

It adds to the other statistics available on the Arts Nation research hub.

The Electorate Profiles breaks down the 150 federal electorates, and looks at level of engagement, the percentage of those who listen to music, read books, attend arts and music events, are involved in community arts, engage with arts through their cultural backgrounds, engage online and creatively participate.

Canberra leads in arts engagement with a 100% score, while the other capital cities are right behind at 98%.

Those who listen to music are a high percentage mostly around 98% (sample: Melbourne, Canberra) or 97% (sample: Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane).

The level of attendance at arts and music events also varies.

Melbourne has a 79% rate, while Canberra and Sydney are at 78%.

Brisbane dips to 76%, Fremantle is 71%, Port Adelaide is 72% and Parramatta is 71%.

The statistics on ticket buying data comes from TEG Analytics, but is limited to its own venues (covered through the ticketing divisions of Ticketek and Eventopia) and does not include free un-ticketed events.

It covers who bought tickets to festivals, theatre, exhibitions, concerts, comedy and school performances.

Its data includes how many tickets each bought an event, how many bought for events at an average, how much was spent on average at an event, how many attended in their own electorate, how many travelled outside their immediate regions, and how many went interstate.

The statistics also cover culture and creative employment in each electorate, and how many culture and creative businesses they host.

These are divided into range, staff size and turnover, and further divided into large businesses (over 20 staff), small businesses (under 19) and individual artists and sole traders.

The number of cinemas, screens and seats, mapped to each federal electorate based on cinema address. Includes major cinema chains and independent cinemas open, comes from the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.

More details here.