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r/personalfinance subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Sep 28, 2026–Oct 28, 2026 (UTC).
From September 28, 2026 to October 28, 2026, 30,522 users on r/personalfinance made 4,872 posts and 97,195 comments, or about 161 posts/day and 3,214 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 19.9 comments per post; 0.6% of posts and 1.5% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 29.9/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 5.7% of posts and 29.9% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 15:00 (1.5x avg), the most active day was Wednesday (1.1x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.85x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/personalfinance
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Oct 28 at 05:42 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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