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Solo Living: The New Normal

Living alone is the new normal. Discuss and share your experiences; celebrate your joys, express your worries, or ask advice relating to solo living | Remember, we are all alone together

265k subscribers914 posts / mo in Sep 2026686 authors / mosince 2012

r/LivingAlone has 265k members (+57% over the last 12 months). It gets about 914 posts a month from 686 people. Top topics: First Solo Living, Lazy Cooking Adventures and Frugal Grocery Shopping.

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Size and growth

How r/LivingAlone has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+57%in 12 months · +8.5% in 3 months · +1.5% in 1 month
Oct 2026264k
Growing264k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+73%vs Sep 2025 · +13% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026914
BusierPeaked at 980 in Jan 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/LivingAlone

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. First Solo Living0.4%
  2. Lazy Cooking Adventures0.3%
  3. Frugal Grocery Shopping0.3%
  4. Work from Home Productivity0.2%
  5. Make Friends0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Meetup
  2. Apple
  3. Care
  4. Walmart
  5. TikTok

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research