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r/maryland

A community for redditors residing in or otherwise interested in the State of Maryland, USA. Founded 2008 · 317.7K members

315.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31.2K upvotes, which works out to 99 per 1,000 members.

99peak upvotes per 1,000 members
315.7Kmembers
31.2Kbest post
3Kmost comments
105posts 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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Image 56% Link 15% Video 10% Gallery 10% Text 9%

The topics it labels

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

MD Politics 25 MD News 9 Meme 7 :Oldbay:Old Bay/Crabs 3 :Flag:MD Flag is the Best Flag:Flag: 2 Picture 2 MD Sports 1 :Flag: 1 MD Nature 1 MD Flag is the Best Flag 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I simply cannot believe that people are protesting in Annapolis today.

↑ 31.2K 💬 3K text 2020

Petition to ban X links on r/maryland

↑ 23.3K 💬 1.2K text 2025

Andy Harris update

↑ 18.9K 💬 887 image 2025

Overpass Activism In Maryland.

↑ 10.1K 💬 560 image 2025

No Kings’ protest in Annapolis today – documenting the voices in the street without taking sides.

↑ 8.8K 💬 311 gallery 2025

Maryland will still protect access to gender-affirming care after Trump executive order, attorney general says

↑ 8.5K 💬 388 link 2025

VICTORY!: Angela Alsobrooks listened and said she will NO LONGER vote yes on Trump Confirmations

↑ 8.3K 💬 530 text 2025

The President is lying to the Public about the spillage of raw sewage into the Potomac

↑ 8.1K 💬 624 video 2026

I’ll never have to question a watch vs warning again

↑ 7.6K 💬 184 image 2026

Andy Harris was not happy about the No Kings Protest

↑ 7.6K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/maryland, in numbers

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

What is r/maryland?
r/maryland describes itself this way: A community for redditors residing in or otherwise interested in the State of Maryland, USA. It was founded in 2008 and has 317.7K members.
How many members does r/maryland have?
r/maryland has about 315.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 105 of its posts; the biggest reached 31.2K upvotes, which is 99 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/maryland?
"I simply cannot believe that people are protesting in Annapolis today." reached 31.2K upvotes and 3K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/maryland.
What subreddits are similar to r/maryland?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/maryland?
Of the posts we hold, 56% are image posts and 15% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/maryland?
Across 105 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (9.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (4.8K 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/maryland?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/maryland has 5.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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