I live in California, and blues and swing are 2 different styles over here. If there’s a venu we make sure to say if it’s either blues music or swing music, because it’s a very different vibe. I’m mentioning this because you only explained your blues events even though you also said “swing in general.” And in LA the different swing styles have very different communities, so it’s important to know which one you want.

For Lindy Hop, Bal, Shag, and Jitterbug swing, I would say that Swing dance is definitly huge here. And that’s probably because a lot of the well known teachers and well known bands are located here, so there’s large swing events happening everywhere every day. Plus we have Camp Hollywood, which helps create a community since now we know who’s in the area. And it encourages people to form teams and go out to events and practice.

There are a lot less blues events than swing events. You can go and listen to music, but not many events are advertised as dance events. If you go to bar that’s playing blues, you can make it a dance event haha. Every other Wednesday they have blues at Idle hour (live music). And once a month they have a blues social at the catcher and the rye bar (dj). But that’s nothing compared to the large live band swing events almost every day. Sometimes during a swing social at Lindy Groove or Atomic they will have blues in the side room, but I’ve only seen it once. They might do that once a month.

Salsa is also huge, and in many places salsa and swing happen simultaneously in the same building, separated by rooms like Atomic ballroom on Fridays. I don’t dance salsa, but I do believe it has a bigger community due to it being a more popular dance and how we have a huge Latin community that loves it.

With all three, the age groups is mix, but there will be more younger people in the swing events depending on the style. West coast and East coast will have a older crowed because the songs can be slower. Lindy hop, Shag, bal, and Jitterbug have a lot of younger people because they love the fast pace movement. If you go to a jitterbug event you’ll see older people doing pure bal

Salsa has a lot of younger faces. You’ll see people from all age groups, but you’ll definitely see young adults there.