Second Life Usage Demographics

Second Life® has released its April demographics and it continues to be heavily used by older people. According to Linden Lab™, 83.79% of the population is 25 years and older, and the older users spend far more time in Second Life than younger users with those 45 and older continuing to be the heaviest users on average.

  • 45 and older: 70.17 hours per user per month
  • 35-44: 66.06 hours per user per user per month
  • 25-34: 55.55 hours per user per user per month
  • 18-24: 37.84 hours per user per user per month
  • Teen grid: 24.67 hours per user per user per month

Another trend which continues is that females spent nearly twice as long online in Second Life as males. Females make up 45.5% of the Second Life population.

Total user hours for April totaled 29,069,684 hours, down some from March’s record 30,625,176.73, but still better than any other prior month.

Resident Totals as the end of April 2008

Residents Logged-In

During Last 7 Days 436,491
During Last 14 Days 576,776
During Last 30 Days 792,281
During Last 60 Days 1,208,008
Total Residents 13,521,922

Current Users

from the Linden Blog

Resident user hours also grew 15% from an annualized rate of 304 million hours in Q4 to just under 350 million user hours in Q1. Residents spent an average of $0.88 per user hour in Q4 and $0.87 per user hour in Q1. Peak concurrent users grew 13.8% from 58,399 in Q4 to 66,468 in Q1.

Peak Concurrent Usage

Source – Linden Lab – Second Life Blog

About Guy Banana Schilling

Lost in various realities since birth, Banana currently resides on the planet earth on the left coast of California. Professionally he has held many jobs. Currently he is the Chief Metaverse Wonk and Virtual World Evangelist for Meta Magic Studio. Personally he is a long time member of the Hash House Harriers.
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