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r/civilengineering

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

232.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.4K upvotes, which works out to 41 per 1,000 members.

41peak upvotes per 1,000 members
232.1Kmembers
9.4Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
250posts 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.

37% 28% 18% 8%
Image 37% Text 28% Question 18% Video 8% Link 6% Gallery 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meme 29 Real Life 4 Question 3 United States 2 Career 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I saw this meme and was curious as to why this isn’t a thing.

↑ 9.4K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Some kid trick-or-treated at my house dressed as a Hydro Electric Dam

↑ 5.4K 💬 42 image 2024

You may not like but this is the peak civil engineering body type

↑ 3.6K 💬 52 image 2025

The public response to these California fires has completely changed my understanding of hydraulics.

↑ 3.5K 💬 230 text 2025

AECOM these days

↑ 3K 💬 147 video 2023

Used some old drawings from work as wrapping paper, thoughts?

↑ 2.7K 💬 99 image 2024

“We just don’t have the revenue to fix our public transit”

↑ 2.6K 💬 100 image 2024

Is this true folks?

↑ 2.5K 💬 147 image 2024

Types of Support

↑ 2.4K 💬 102 image 2023

As-builts

↑ 2.3K 💬 66 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/civilengineering, in numbers

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

How many members does r/civilengineering have?
r/civilengineering has about 232.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 250 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.4K upvotes, which is 41 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/civilengineering?
"I saw this meme and was curious as to why this isn’t a thing." reached 9.4K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/civilengineering.
What subreddits are similar to r/civilengineering?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/civilengineering?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 28% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/civilengineering?
Across 250 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 18:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (1.1K 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/civilengineering?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/civilengineering has 1.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 3 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/civilengineering, 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.