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r/renting↗

Dedicated to answering tenant questions about leasing residential property

A practical community for renters and prospective renters to ask questions, share experiences, and swap advice about finding, signing, living in, and leaving rentals with topics including leases, applications, tenant rights, repairs, roommates, deposits, moving, and budgeting.

31k subscribers268 posts / mo in Sep 2026255 authors / mosince 2011

r/renting has 31k members. It gets about 268 posts a month from 255 people. Top topics: Rent Increases and Landlords, Rentals and Apartments and Eviction Crisis.

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Size and growth

How r/renting has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+46%since Sep 2025 · +6.6% in 3 months · +1.6% in 1 month
Oct 202631k
Growing31k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+82%vs Sep 2025 · +26% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026268
BusierPeaked at 409 in Jul 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/renting

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Rent Increases and Landlords1.8%
  2. Rentals and Apartments0.9%
  3. Eviction Crisis0.6%
  4. Apartment Climate Issues0.6%
  5. Driveway Disputes0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Apartments
  2. Realtor
  3. Annual Credit Report
  4. PadSplit
  5. Replit

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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