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r/ottawa

Ottawa: Local news and discussions / Nouvelles locales et discussions.. News, events, discussions, and what not from Ottawa, Ontario. / Nouvelles, événements, discussions et varia concernant la ville d'Ottawa, Ontario. Founded 2008 · 387.4K members

388.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 24.6K upvotes, which works out to 63 per 1,000 members.

63peak upvotes per 1,000 members
388.6Kmembers
24.6Kbest post
3.7Kmost comments
887posts 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.

36% 19% 19% 17%
Text 36% Question 19% Image 19% Link 17% Gallery 6% 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.

News 95 Looking for... 95 Photo(s) 41 Local Event 40 Municipal Affairs 29 Local Business 18 OC Transpo 17 PSA 16 Lost/Found 13 Rent/Housing 10

What the ceiling looks like

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

Recently moved to Ottawa from Australia. Here’s our dog seeing snow for the first time!

↑ 24.6K 💬 440 video 2022

PIERRE HAS LOST HIS SEAT IN CARLETON!

↑ 18.9K 💬 1.2K image 2025

So let me get this straight: The Canadian women's hockey team wore N95 masks while easily beating Russia 6-1 at the Olympics...but some people are so…

↑ 16.9K 💬 1.6K link 2022

how are you supposed to live here on $15.00 per hour?

↑ 11.9K 💬 2.1K image 2022

Spotted in Pierre Poilievre’s riding

↑ 11.7K 💬 562 image 2025

28 years ago my father held up a +1 sign for when I was born and I decided to do the same for my son.

↑ 11.5K 💬 336 image 2020

Ottawa police just kicked an old lady out of Dundonald Park for doing tai chi

↑ 10.7K 💬 1.2K text 2022

Signs from today's rally on Parliament hill

↑ 10.7K 💬 408 gallery 2025

Posted by a neighbor in Kanata

↑ 10.7K 💬 298 image 2025

We’re all MAGA now (in Old Ottawa South)

↑ 10.7K 💬 98 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/ottawa, in numbers

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

What is r/ottawa?
r/ottawa ("Ottawa: Local news and discussions / Nouvelles locales et discussions.") describes itself this way: News, events, discussions, and what not from Ottawa, Ontario. / Nouvelles, événements, discussions et varia concernant la ville d'Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in 2008 and has 387.4K members.
How many members does r/ottawa have?
r/ottawa has about 388.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 887 of its posts; the biggest reached 24.6K upvotes, which is 63 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ottawa?
"Recently moved to Ottawa from Australia. Here’s our dog seeing snow for the first time!" reached 24.6K upvotes and 440 comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ottawa.
What subreddits are similar to r/ottawa?
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/ottawa?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are text posts and 19% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ottawa?
Across 887 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 08:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/ottawa?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ottawa has 6.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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