Cities ranked by REDDIT members

[dontbelievehim]

Originally Posted by Borntoolate85

Especially with Berkeley over Vegas which would have much more of a broad appeal for tourists and foreigners. I don't know who even visits Berkeley to have fun if they're not connected with the university; it's not like Cambridge (appropriately ranked IMO) which is an easy bridge walk or subway ride from central Boston.

Cities like Nashville, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis (St. Paul has 11.1K followers BTW), Charlotte, Richmond, Columbus, SLC, and Sacramento also did well given their overall weights, as well as smaller cities like Chattanooga, Boulder, and Lancaster, PA. Underperformers besides Vegas include Memphis, Fresno, Phoenix, San Antonio, Milwaukee, and OKC.

Vegas has two large Reddits. Also, Vegas has a very active twitter "following". Las vegans use twitter a lot to promote their city/events. Id say they use it more than most other cities.

Sacramento has pull from it's gigantic tv market, and beyond. People from Reno to Modesto to chico to the East Bay regularly use Sacramentos Reddit.

[MarketStEl]

g500: This question seems to have gotten buried, so I'm asking again:

Is the Lawrence on your list the one in Massachusetts or the one in Kansas?

I ask for two reasons:

1) Lawrence, KS, is more populous than Lawrence, MA (2020 census: 94,934 in KS vs. 89,143 in MA)
2) Lawrence, KS, is a college town (home to the University of Kansas) while Lawrence, MA is not

I would guess that for both reasons, the Lawrence, KS, subreddit would have more followers than the Lawrence, MA one.

[g500]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

g500: This question seems to have gotten buried, so I'm asking again:

Is the Lawrence on your list the one in Massachusetts or the one in Kansas?

I ask for two reasons:

1) Lawrence, KS, is more populous than Lawrence, MA (2020 census: 94,934 in KS vs. 89,143 in MA)
2) Lawrence, KS, is a college town (home to the University of Kansas) while Lawrence, MA is not

I would guess that for both reasons, the Lawrence, KS, subreddit would have more followers than the Lawrence, MA one.

It is Lawrence, KS. Seems like college/university presence is a strong correlator for Reddit followers. I should have included state abbreviations for all.

It took me 3 hours to compile it all by hand. I also stopped ranking them after I stumbled upon Berkeley, CA having 100k+ members. At that point I figured - maybe there were (are) others missing from my list. I think it is safe to assume the top 15 are correctly ranked (i.e. it's likely there are no cities missing that would outrank those).

[cranberrysaus]

Originally Posted by demonta4

People on r/WashingtonDC get mad when you say you live in the area and mention Silver Spring or Arlington. NOVA has its own sub and a ton of r/Maryland is DC area residents.

r/Atlanta has a weird complex too about anyone that lives OTP.

[SonySegaTendo617]

Originally Posted by cranberrysaus

r/Atlanta has a weird complex too about anyone that lives OTP.

All those bigger city subs are like that, at those who live outside of the main city. Not surprised you noticed that, on the Atlanta sub. I have noticed this on r/chicago , as well. At least on the Chicago Food sub( r/chicagofood ), I notice less snobbery about places to eat in the suburbs, as long as it isn't a chain. Since for sure I'd say all suburbs are NOT as bland, and some have a little more interesting personality to them(i.e. La Grange, Berwyn, Des Plaines), vs. say how Schaumburg is like.

[stanley-88888888]

r/brockton only has 228 members but this is the most brockton thing ever for some reason:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brockton/co...e_to_brockton/

[BostonBornMassMade]

^They don’t call it the ‘Boogie Down Brock’ for nothing #Broketon

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by g500

USA Cities by Reddit Followers (list may be omitting some). I compiled this by hand.

1. NYC 595,607
2. Los Angeles 539,255
3. Boston 485,423
4. Seattle 427,964
5. Chicago 426,025
6. Atlanta 400,017
7. Philadelphia 384,718
8. San Francisco 329,164
9. Houston 306,105
10. Austin 290,174
11. Dallas 287,481
12. Denver 267,450
13. Portland 264,205
14. Washington, D.C. 260,768
15. San Diego 258,003

San Diego has a secondary subreddit, r/SanDiegan, which was presumably created out of unhappiness with the moderators at r/SanDiego.

That offshoot subreddit has 32,495 members, more than r/VirginiaBeach has-a city sometimes compared to SD on here.


So San Diego is really tied with Austin.

[g500]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

San Diego has a secondary subreddit, r/SanDiegan, which was presumably created out of unhappiness with the moderators at r/SanDiego.

That offshoot subreddit has 32,495 members, more than r/VirginiaBeach has-a city sometimes compared to SD on here.


So San Diego is really tied with Austin.

I disagree with your last statement as someone pointed out earlier that a Reddit user can follow both/multiple subreddits. You cannot “add” subreddits together for any city/metro in a meaningful way.

Btw, not sure who would compare SD and VA Beach. SD is much larger and more prominent.

[SonySegaTendo617]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

San Diego has a secondary subreddit, r/SanDiegan, which was presumably created out of unhappiness with the moderators at r/SanDiego.

That offshoot subreddit has 32,495 members, more than r/VirginiaBeach has-a city sometimes compared to SD on here.


So San Diego is really tied with Austin.

Now that I think about it, there was a secondary Reddit sub(or 2, I forget) created by those who were unhappy with the moderators, on the r/Chicago sub. And that there's always been some who didn't like certain rules on the main sub, I.e. the rule you only can post photos Friday-Sunday, or the experimental rule of no crime discussions(which to me I felt was excessive and I'd rather see the mods focus on deleting troll comments whenever such posts occurred, but to each their own). So I bet if you counted those members on those extra 1-2 subs(and they hadn't left r/chicago ) that there's a chance Chicago would at least be ahead of Seattle, if not ahead of Boston.