New study looks at the demographics of today’s wrestling audience
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From 411Mania, and study commissioned by Forbes looking at wrestling fans. Fans were broken down into 3 categories; primarily WWE fans, primarily AEW fans, and fans of all professional wrestling.
>WWE
>Average age is 51, with 40% of responders being over the age of 55 and 26% being under the age of 18.
>Average level of education is high school, with 31% of responders saying that did not finish high school or have not yet finished high school.
>Median household income is $33,000 annually
>11% of WWE fans are married, and 31% of fans have children or are acting as stepparents for a partner’s children.
>60% of WWE fans self-reported as being uninterested in other wrestling companies
>AEW
> Average age is 46, with 23% of responders over 55 and 5% being under 18.
>Average level of education is college, with 4% of responses saying they did not finish high school or have not yet finished it.
>Median household income is $71,000 annually (this is clarified a bit in the next point)
> 61% of AEW fans are married (hence the jump in income) and 48% of fans are acting as a parent or step parent
> 27% of fans self identified as being uninterested in other wrestling companies
>All wrestling (ie I do not prefer AEW or WWE and will watch independent wrestling and international wrestling)
> Average age is 52, with 49% being over 55 and no responses from anyone under 18
> Average level of education is college with only 2% of responses saying they did not or have not yet finished high school
>Median household income is $68,000
> 19% of wrestling fans are married with 12% acting as a parent or stepparent
