Free dataset: demand, saturation, pricing and trend data for 459 Print on Demand niches across 8 categories and 9 marketplaces. Measured 2026-08-05. Citable …
Demand, saturation, pricing and trend measurements for 459 Print on Demand niches across 8 categories and 9 marketplaces. Tracked continuously since 2026-05-11; the figures on this page were measured on 2026-08-05. Average demand across the catalogue is 59/100, average saturation 81/100 and the average marketplace price $25.06.
Across all 459 tracked niches the mean saturation index is 81/100 while mean demand is 59/100. Only 118 niches (26%) score 75 or lower on saturation. For a new seller the practical read is that finding demand is easy and finding room is hard — the shortlist worth working on is the low-saturation tail, not the top of the demand ranking.
Causes (63/100) and Humor (63/100) lead on demand, with Seasons close behind (61/100), and those three also hold the largest share of low-saturation niches — 19, 17 and 19 respectively. Sports is the opposite pattern: 60 niches tracked, but the lowest average demand of the eight buckets at 54/100.
Mean 30-day trend movement is +9.2% in Causes and +9.1% in Seasons, versus +5.3% in Professions and +5.6% in Sports. Evergreen professional niches are stable but slow; seasonal and identity niches are where a design published this month can still catch a rising curve.
Average marketplace price across the catalogue is $25.06, and every one of the eight categories sits between $24.54 and $25.87 on average. The spread lives inside the categories, not between them: Fandoms reaches $44.58 at the top end (framed prints and Displate-style products) while Seasons bottoms out at $17.14. Product choice moves your price far more than niche choice does.
Tracked competitor counts average 9–11 established sellers per niche in every category. There is no bucket where the competitive field is thin; differentiation has to come from design angle and listing SEO rather than from finding an empty room.
Professions: 65 niches tracked, average demand 56/100, average saturation 82/100, 12 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $24.83 (range $18.34–$35.97), mean 30-day trend +5.3%, around 10 tracked competitors per niche.
Hobbies: 63 niches tracked, average demand 56/100, average saturation 82/100, 12 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $24.89 (range $19.50–$37.71), mean 30-day trend +6.6%, around 9 tracked competitors per niche.
Sports: 60 niches tracked, average demand 54/100, average saturation 82/100, 13 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $25.19 (range $19.50–$32.69), mean 30-day trend +5.6%, around 9 tracked competitors per niche.
Aesthetics: 56 niches tracked, average demand 60/100, average saturation 81/100, 11 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $25.87 (range $20.00–$35.67), mean 30-day trend +6.9%, around 10 tracked competitors per niche.
Seasons: 56 niches tracked, average demand 61/100, average saturation 81/100, 19 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $24.73 (range $17.14–$29.82), mean 30-day trend +9.1%, around 10 tracked competitors per niche.
Fandoms: 55 niches tracked, average demand 58/100, average saturation 81/100, 15 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $25.21 (range $21.35–$44.58), mean 30-day trend +7.3%, around 10 tracked competitors per niche.
Causes: 53 niches tracked, average demand 63/100, average saturation 80/100, 19 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $24.54 (range $19.14–$35.75), mean 30-day trend +9.2%, around 11 tracked competitors per niche.
Humor: 51 niches tracked, average demand 63/100, average saturation 80/100, 17 niches at or below 75 saturation, average price $25.24 (range $20.50–$34.38), mean 30-day trend +8.2%, around 10 tracked competitors per niche.
1. Hand Lettering (Hobbies) — demand 78/100, saturation 75/100, average price $22.15.
2. Ghost Hunter (Fandoms) — demand 75/100, saturation 75/100, average price $25.75.
3. NICU Mom (Causes) — demand 75/100, saturation 75/100, average price $27.93.
4. Mechanical Engineer (Professions) — demand 75/100, saturation 75/100, average price $23.23.
5. Pilates (Sports) — demand 75/100, saturation 75/100, average price $32.69.
6. Crossfit Athlete (Sports) — demand 75/100, saturation 75/100, average price $25.50.
7. Cat Rescue (Causes) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $25.45.
8. Warhammer (Hobbies) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $35.59.
9. Y2K Princess (Aesthetics) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $22.61.
10. UX Designer (Professions) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $24.79.
11. Boba Tea (Humor) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $26.18.
12. Cancer Survivor (Causes) — demand 75/100, saturation 80/100, average price $26.50.
Sample: 459 Print on Demand niches tracked continuously since 2026-05-11, all of them AI-enriched with intros, design angles, pricing notes and buyer personas. Aggregates on this page were computed on 2026-08-05.
Demand index (0–100): a composite of search interest and buying-intent keyword signals for the niche and its top keywords. It is a relative index across our own catalogue, not a search-volume figure.
Saturation index (0–100): how crowded the niche already is, derived from marketplace listing depth and the number of established sellers competing on the niche's head keywords.
Average price: the mean listed price of representative products found for the niche across the marketplaces we crawl (Redbubble, Etsy, Amazon Merch on Demand, TeePublic, Society6, Zazzle, Spreadshirt, Threadless, Displate).
30-day trend: percentage change in the niche's demand signal over the trailing 30 days.
Limits to be explicit about: these are marketplace-listing and search-signal measurements, not sales or revenue data. No marketplace publishes per-niche sales figures, so nothing here should be read as earnings. Treat the indices as a way to rank niches against each other, not as absolute market sizes.
Profit Lab 360 (2026). Print on Demand Niche Report 2026: demand, saturation and pricing across 459 niches. Retrieved from https://profitlab360.com/data/pod-niche-report-2026
Yes. The aggregate figures on this page are free to reuse in articles, videos, courses and research with attribution to Profit Lab 360 and a link back to the report URL. Use the citation block on the page to copy a ready-made reference.
Demand measures how much interest exists for the niche; saturation measures how much of that interest is already served by existing listings. A niche is workable when demand is high relative to saturation — the gap matters more than either score on its own.
No. Marketplaces do not publish per-niche sales data. These are our own indices built from listing depth and search-interest signals, which is why they are presented as 0–100 relative scores rather than dollar or unit figures.
Niche market data is refreshed on a rolling schedule and the per-niche pages show their own last-updated date. This aggregate report is recomputed periodically; the measurement date is stated at the top of the page.
Every niche has a public page under /index with its demand, saturation, trend, price range and competitor snapshot, and the whole catalogue is searchable for free in the niche finder. A public JSON API is documented at /api.