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r/Oldhouses

171.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.2K upvotes, which works out to 42 per 1,000 members.

42peak upvotes per 1,000 members
171.3Kmembers
7.2Kbest post
790most comments
303posts 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.

47% 19% 18% 10%
Gallery 47% Image 19% Link 18% Text 10% Question 5% Video 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

One week until we close on this incredible 1881 home

↑ 7.2K 💬 356 gallery 2026

The house is officially ours 🥰 I named the house Betty Gene after the late owner.

↑ 7.2K 💬 405 gallery 2026

More photos of my new house built in 1879

↑ 6.3K 💬 227 gallery 2026

Before and after bathroom photos

↑ 3.8K 💬 207 gallery 2026

Tile guy didn't realize there was a pattern. He says he can fix it with Loctite. Is that true?

↑ 3.6K 💬 790 gallery 2026

Heartbroken

↑ 3K 💬 533 gallery 2026

Chasm Beneath Floor

↑ 3K 💬 483 image 2026

Our new old house

↑ 2.6K 💬 147 gallery 2026

I Found a Hidden Cistern Behind My $8,000 House

↑ 2K 💬 176 gallery 2026

Recently finished library shelving and ceiling project.

↑ 1.9K 💬 75 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Oldhouses, in numbers

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

How many members does r/Oldhouses have?
r/Oldhouses has about 171.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 303 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.2K upvotes, which is 42 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Oldhouses?
"One week until we close on this incredible 1881 home" reached 7.2K upvotes and 356 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Oldhouses.
What subreddits are similar to r/Oldhouses?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Oldhouses?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are gallery posts and 19% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Oldhouses?
Across 303 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 21:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/Oldhouses?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Oldhouses has 937 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 141 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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