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Find a roommate or discuss living strategies or issues! Please apply user and post flair accordingly and put the name of the region where you want to live in the title of your post! Additionally, take care to verify the people you talk to, who may be scammers. Verify each other's real-life authenticity through websites, social media platforms, etc.

21k subscribers702 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)628 authors / mosince 2009

r/roommates has 21k members (+51% over the last 12 months). It gets about 702 posts a month from 628 people. Top topics: Nightmare Roommates, Roommate Cleanliness Issues and Roommates Renting.

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Size and growth

How r/roommates has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+51%in 12 months · +16% in 3 months · +5.1% in 1 month
Oct 202621k
Growing21k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+127%vs Sep 2025 · +51% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026702
BusierPeaked at 702 in Sep 2026
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/roommates

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Nightmare Roommates0.8%
  2. Roommate Cleanliness Issues0.8%
  3. Roommates Renting0.6%
  4. Introducing Cats0.4%
  5. Roommate Life0.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Apple
  2. Apartments

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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