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Region of Waterloo

Welcome to r/Waterloo, the subreddit for the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Waterloo Region includes the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, as well as the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.

91k subscribers494 posts / mo in Sep 2026388 authors / mosince 2008

r/waterloo has 91k members (+15% over the last 12 months). It gets about 494 posts a month from 388 people. Top topics: Tech Hubs, Toronto Transit Updates and Cambridge City Life.

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Size and growth

How r/waterloo has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+15%in 12 months · +2.5% in 3 months · +0.6% in 1 month
Oct 202691k
Growing91k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−8.5%vs Sep 2025 · −8.4% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026494
QuieterPeaked at 628 in Aug 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/waterloo

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Tech Hubs4.0%
  2. Toronto Transit Updates0.9%
  3. Cambridge City Life0.7%
  4. Making Friends0.6%
  5. University of Waterloo0.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. CBC
  2. The Record
  3. Ctvnews
  4. Archive
  5. CityNews

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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