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r/washingtondc

District of Columbia. A subreddit for those living in and visiting Washington, DC and the immediate surrounding area. The humidity will pass, and remember: stand on the right, walk on the left. Founded 2008 · 538K members

539.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 33.2K upvotes, which works out to 62 per 1,000 members.

62peak upvotes per 1,000 members
539.8Kmembers
33.2Kbest post
6.8Kmost comments
985posts 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.

33% 22% 22% 11% 9%
Text 33% Image 22% Question 22% Link 11% Gallery 9% Video 4%

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] 362 [News] 124 [Fun!] 83 [Rant] 61 [Transportation] 56 [Weather] 48 [Event] 45 [IT'S HAPPENING!] 35 [History] 21 [Protest] 20

What the ceiling looks like

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

Outside ICE HQ right now!!

↑ 33.2K 💬 685 image 2026

Stage falling apart at Great American State Fair

↑ 24.5K 💬 2.6K video 2026

Vet from DC who’s sick of maga

↑ 19.2K 💬 351 image 2025

Patriot Front in Dc

↑ 17.1K 💬 6.8K gallery 2026

I visited the "Great American State Fair" and it was a surreal, dystopian fever dream.

↑ 15.9K 💬 2K gallery 2026

Capital Protests Today

↑ 14.8K 💬 432 gallery 2025

God bless the folks putting these up

↑ 14.3K 💬 255 image 2026

They can’t even spell freedom.

↑ 14.1K 💬 687 image 2026

Don’t go the Great America Fair. It is very political.

↑ 13.1K 💬 1.8K image 2026

On the National Gallery of Art right now

↑ 12.5K 💬 185 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/washingtondc, in numbers

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

What is r/washingtondc?
r/washingtondc ("District of Columbia") describes itself this way: A subreddit for those living in and visiting Washington, DC and the immediate surrounding area. The humidity will pass, and remember: stand on the right, walk on the left. It was founded in 2008 and has 538K members.
How many members does r/washingtondc have?
r/washingtondc has about 539.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 985 of its posts; the biggest reached 33.2K upvotes, which is 62 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/washingtondc?
"Outside ICE HQ right now!!" reached 33.2K upvotes and 685 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/washingtondc.
What subreddits are similar to r/washingtondc?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/washingtondc?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are text posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/washingtondc?
Across 985 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 15:00 UTC (4.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 23:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (3.8K 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/washingtondc?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/washingtondc has 9.7K 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/washingtondc, 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.