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Retirement Lounge

Place for people interested in retirement to hang out.

18k subscribers88 posts / mo in Sep 202671 authors / mosince 2017

r/Retire has 18k members. It gets about 88 posts a month from 71 people. Top topics: Retirement Planning & Early Retirement, Retirement and Career Choices and TeachingCareerNavigator.

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Size and growth

How r/Retire has grown

r/Retire

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+91%since May 2026
Oct 202617k
Growing17k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Jan 2017)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+577%vs Sep 2025 · +140% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202688
BusierPeaked at 103 in Aug 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Retire

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Retirement Planning & Early Retirement11%
  2. Retirement and Career Choices9.1%
  3. TeachingCareerNavigator1.1%
  4. FIRE Career & Life Balance1.1%
  5. StartingFIRE0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. HealthCare
  2. Bogleheads
  3. Yahoo!
  4. Simple Page
  5. Substack

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