Some highlights of the 2019 census are below.
- There were 856 respondents to the Circus Census who were involved in the New Zealand circus community as a practitioner in some capacity (as a student, teacher, performer, running a circus project or circus school, rigger, administration etc.)
- 86% of Census respondents indicated that they mainly participate in community circus.
- Of our circus students, the most popular circus discipline to have participated in was aerials (82%).
- The disciplines our performers do (including aspiring performers) are aerials (56%), manipulation (39%), acrobatics (31%), fire (23%), equilibristics (23%), clowning/mask (17%), magic (7%), sideshow (6%) and other (12%).
- 20% of those working in the circus industry in the period between April 2018 and April 2019 were working voluntarily only.
