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r/Charlottesville

Charlottesville Virginia. # Welcome to Charlottesville! # This subreddit is dedicated to anything and everything having to do with Mr. Jefferson's favorite town: bands, shows, restaurants, politics, UVA, crime, sightings on the downtown mall, wars with Richmond, etc. Before asking about local bars, restaurants, etc., check out the wiki! Founded 2008 · 68.6K members

68.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.3K upvotes, which works out to 180 per 1,000 members.

180peak upvotes per 1,000 members
68.6Kmembers
12.3Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
402posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 39% Image 24% Question 19% Link 8% Gallery 6% Video 4%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Thousands protest Trump and Musk at Stonefield

↑ 12.3K 💬 431 image 2025

A friendly reminder what's on your state flag, Charlottesville.

↑ 5.2K 💬 126 image 2025

Charlottesville, Va 04/05/2024

↑ 4K 💬 187 video 2025

There are lots of flags and signage already so I thought I'd put one more.

↑ 3.2K 💬 199 image 2025

Five years ago, the Lee statue was removed here, leaving only a dead patch of grass that remains today. Overnight for Juneteenth, I transformed it in…

↑ 3K 💬 92 image 2026

Proud of you Charlottesville

↑ 2.6K 💬 85 gallery 2025

Sic Semper Tyrannis

↑ 2.4K 💬 230 image 2025

No Kings Protest, Charlottseville VA. Over 5000 people showed up to protest. Thats over 9 percent of the population.

↑ 2.1K 💬 171 gallery 2025

charlottesville is fed up

↑ 1.7K 💬 193 image 2025

Hundreds protest Trump Deportations in Charlottesville

↑ 1.6K 💬 92 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Charlottesville, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Charlottesville?
r/Charlottesville ("Charlottesville Virginia") describes itself this way: # Welcome to Charlottesville! # This subreddit is dedicated to anything and everything having to do with Mr. Jefferson's favorite town: bands, shows, restaurants, politics, UVA, crime, sightings on the downtown mall, wars with Richmond, etc. Before asking about local bars, restaurants, etc., check out the wiki. It was founded in 2008 and has 68.6K members.
How many members does r/Charlottesville have?
r/Charlottesville has about 68.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.3K upvotes, which is 180 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Charlottesville?
"Thousands protest Trump and Musk at Stonefield" reached 12.3K upvotes and 431 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Charlottesville.
What subreddits are similar to r/Charlottesville?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Charlottesville?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are text posts and 24% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Charlottesville?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 17:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Charlottesville?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Charlottesville has 909 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 228 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Charlottesville, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.