Coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five cities in Australia

The bar chart below shows the

percentage

of

coffee

and

tea

consumption habits in the

last

4 weeks in five different Australian

cities

(

Sydney

,

Melbourne

,

Brisbane

,

Adelaide

and

Hobart

). In general, going to a cafe to drink

coffee

or

tea

was the most common habit, except in

Adelaide

where less than 50% of the residents do so.

In addition

, the

percentage

of

people

buying instant

coffee

there was higher compared to the other

cities

in the habit of going to cafés mostly. In

Sydney

and

Melbourne

, the

percentage

of

people

drinking

tea

or

coffee

in a café was around 61% in

Sydney

, but slightly higher in

Melbourne

at around 63%. Meanwhile, over 45% of

people

in

Sydney

and

Melbourne

were in the habit of buying instant

coffee

,

while

the proportions of those buying fresh

coffee

in these two

cities

were around 44% and 43% respectively. Looking at the remaining

cities

,

Hobart

had the highest proportion of

people

drinking

coffee

or

tea

in a cafe, followed by

Brisbane

and

Adelaide

with around 51% and 49% respectively. At the same time, about 53 per cent of

people

in

Brisbane

and

Hobart

chose to buy instant

coffee

, compared to almost 50 per cent of

people

in

Adelaide

.

Finally

, there was a close similarity in the

percentage

of

people

buying fresh

coffee

in

Brisbane

and

Adelaide

, at around 34%,

while

the figure in

Hobart

was higher at around 38%.