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r/kansascity

Kansas City: Paris of the Plains. Welcome to r/KansasCity. This is a subreddit for Kansas City, Missouri, and surrounding cities on both sides of the state line. Founded 2008 · 239K members

239.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 42.2K upvotes, which works out to 176 per 1,000 members.

176peak upvotes per 1,000 members
239.9Kmembers
42.2Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
927posts 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.

38% 25% 19% 8%
Text 38% Question 25% Image 19% Gallery 8% Link 7% Video 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.

Discussion 💡 66 Photos/Media 📷 46 Local Politics 🗳️ 41 Shopping/Groceries 🛒🛍️ 39 Things To Do 📍 39 Where to Eat? 🍽️ 34 Healthcare/Wellness 🩺 29 News 📰 27 Recreation/Outdoors ⛳️🎣 26 Bars/Nightlife 🪩🍸 25

What the ceiling looks like

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

My husband is blind and uses Uber. We sent an email to KS Representatives as there's a vote today that would make Uber operations illegal in the stat…

↑ 42.2K 💬 2.1K image 2015

This is Senator Roy Blunt. He sold me, my fellow Missourians, and this nation to the telecom lobbyists for $127,500

↑ 38.5K 💬 398 image 2017

Kansas City International Airport refuses to air Kristi Noem’s TSA video blaming shutdown on Democrats

↑ 21.5K 💬 270 link 2025

*that* salute at KC Tesla protest

↑ 11.6K 💬 1K gallery 2025

Shutting down religious zealots at Planned Parenthood!

↑ 11K 💬 574 video 2022

*warning language* Meet Fido. Fido like to chase cars outside of Planned Parenthood in Overland Park. Today he caught the wrong car.

↑ 8.9K 💬 1.1K video 2022

Hundreds demand hate crime charges against Kansas City man who shot Black teen

↑ 6.8K 💬 650 link 2023

Example of why I love this city.

↑ 6.1K 💬 217 image 2025

Jackson County Voters Overwhelmingly Vote No on Stadium Tax & Plan

↑ 5.9K 💬 1.9K link 2024

We definitely showed up at the plaza.

↑ 5.5K 💬 282 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/kansascity, in numbers

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

What is r/kansascity?
r/kansascity ("Kansas City: Paris of the Plains") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/KansasCity. This is a subreddit for Kansas City, Missouri, and surrounding cities on both sides of the state line. It was founded in 2008 and has 239K members.
How many members does r/kansascity have?
r/kansascity has about 239.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 927 of its posts; the biggest reached 42.2K upvotes, which is 176 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/kansascity?
"My husband is blind and uses Uber. We sent an email to KS Representatives as there's a vote today that would make Uber operations illegal in" reached 42.2K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2015, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/kansascity.
What subreddits are similar to r/kansascity?
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/kansascity?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are text posts and 25% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/kansascity?
Across 927 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (5.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/kansascity?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/kansascity has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 312 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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