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Urban Exploration

2.2M subscribers330 posts / mo in Sep 2026203 authors / mosince 2008

r/urbanexploration has 2.2M members. It gets about 330 posts a month from 203 people. Top topics: Abandoned Places to Explore, Abandoned Factories and Abandoned Houses and Buildings.

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Size and growth

How r/urbanexploration has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.4%since May 2026 · +0.7% in 3 months · +0.2% in 1 month
Oct 20262.2M
Growing2.2M subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Aug 2008)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−37%vs Sep 2025 · −15% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026330
QuieterPeaked at 912 in Dec 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/urbanexploration

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Abandoned Places to Explore1.0%
  2. Abandoned Factories1.0%
  3. Abandoned Houses and Buildings0.9%
  4. Urban Exploration0.8%
  5. Abandoned Houses0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. TikTok
  2. Hive
  3. Substack
  4. Atlas Obscura
  5. Flickr

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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