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r/uscanadaborder

This community is for all things related to the border crossing. But not for political discussions. Please stick to questions and facts about getting through a border crossing. This includes air travel and land crossing. Please post any updates or experiences related to border crossing. This was not created by any officials or moderated by anyone in government or authority. Please use prudence and good judgment in how you use the information provided here. Founded 2021 · 41K members

40.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.5K upvotes, which works out to 310 per 1,000 members.

310peak upvotes per 1,000 members
40.3Kmembers
12.5Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
100posts 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.

42% 28% 17%
Text 42% Link 28% Question 17% Image 6% Video 4% 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.

Border Crossing Experience 27 Canadian 5 American 2 Dual Citizenship 1 Driving 1 Pets 1 Documents 1 Air Travel 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

US Customs at Pearson - Saturday of March Break

↑ 12.5K 💬 806 image 2025

Handcuffed and briefly detained today at US border.

↑ 2.2K 💬 469 text 2025

US Border agent being extremely rude!

↑ 1.8K 💬 891 text 2025

Canadians born in Iran, Afghanistan turned away at U.S. border after Trump executive order on terror threats

↑ 1.7K 💬 365 link 2025

Toronto woman says she was denied entry to U.S. for not having a visa

↑ 1.7K 💬 854 link 2025

Weekslong lockups of tourists at U.S. borders spark fears of travelling to America

↑ 1.5K 💬 316 link 2025

Unreasonable searches at border (Blaine)

↑ 1.4K 💬 920 text 2025

Flight bookings have decreased significantly wow

↑ 1.3K 💬 191 image 2025

Lawyers advise Canadians working in U.S. to avoid travel amid border crackdown

↑ 1.3K 💬 137 link 2025

I crossed at the Rainbow Bridge this morning at 7:45 for a NEXUS appointment

↑ 1.2K 💬 122 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/uscanadaborder, in numbers

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

What is r/uscanadaborder?
r/uscanadaborder describes itself this way: This community is for all things related to the border crossing. But not for political discussions. Please stick to questions and facts about getting through a border crossing. This includes air travel and land crossing. Please post any updates or experiences related to border crossing. This was not created by any officials or moderated by anyone in government or authority. Please use prudence and good judgment in how you use the information provided here. It was founded in 2021 and has 41K members.
How many members does r/uscanadaborder have?
r/uscanadaborder has about 40.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.5K upvotes, which is 310 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/uscanadaborder?
"US Customs at Pearson - Saturday of March Break" reached 12.5K upvotes and 806 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/uscanadaborder.
What subreddits are similar to r/uscanadaborder?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/uscanadaborder?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are text posts and 28% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/uscanadaborder?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 19:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 17:00 UTC (777 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 18:00 UTC (549 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/uscanadaborder?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/uscanadaborder has 604 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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