I've noticed in Montana that some seasons/years there are WAY more women than men (more common) but in the last few years there has been a trend of more men than women....Also the age of the dancers is mostly 40s and up with a few college students.

In Minneapolis, at least around the campus where I go to school it is a fairly even ratio, perhaps slightly more women, and because of all the colleges the age is lower. However, the college kids dance mostly swing, and the slightly older crowd are much more diverse as far as styles of dance.

Sofia

Here in the Silicon Valley area, the social dance venues all tend to have more men than women.

Attendance rates here don't usually fluctuate wildly from week to week, but they do vary by time of year -- for example, I always notice the floor is less crowded when the fall TV season starts!

The music mix in this area has shifted slightly toward club dances (hustle, salsa, west coast swing) but only slightly; most of the places I go still have a pretty even mix of dances.

Age group varies dramatically by venue around here. One place I go for west coast swing (they also do the occasional waltz or foxtrot, but mostly WCS) has an average age of 55-60. At another place I frequent, the average is under 30.

One thing I've noticed, no doubt a peculiarity of the demographics of my area, is that the racial makeup of the crowd varies by sex. At several of the dances I attend regularly, the men tend to be predominantly white and the women mostly Asian. The difference is greater now than when I started a few years ago. I've talked to others who've noticed the same thing, but nobody is quite sure what's behind the shift.

In the seacoast area of New Hampshire the trend is that the distibution of sexes is about equal, no more women than men, generally people who are in their 30's and older and maybe one or 2 college students(me included). As for dance styles, there is a wide variety, they play everything. generally a lot of swing, salsa, rumba, and cha cha (rhythm dances) in addition to the smooth and stadard dances. ;-p

Of those that I mention the one that has been brought up the most is the number of women vs. men at the dances and this by the ladies who wish that there were more men.

The age range is now a lot more mixed than it was when I got back into dancing about seven years ago. I've noticed a lot more teen agers in recent years and the monthly swing dances that I attend have mostly college age people though there are enough older people that someone who is older can attend without feeling out of place; of course this logical since it was a group of young people who initially got these dances started.

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