Reddit communities and moderation statistics 2026

• 100,000+

  active communities exist on Reddit, per its Q4 2025 shareholder letter

  Reddit Q4 2025 shareholder letter, 5 Feb 2026Copy citationEmbed

• 2.2 billion

  posts and comments were created from July to December 2025, and 154,198,211 were removed by mods, admins or their authors

  Reddit, r/RedditSafety, 29 Apr 2026Copy citationEmbed

• 68.6%

  of moderator removals in July to December 2025 were handled by automated systems such as AutoModerator

  Reddit, r/RedditSafety, 29 Apr 2026Copy citationEmbed

• 54%

  of admin removals in July to December 2025 were for spam

  Reddit, r/RedditSafety, 29 Apr 2026Copy citationEmbed

• 2.66%

  of nearly 6 billion pieces of content shared from January to June 2025 was removed by mods and admins

  Reddit, r/RedditSafety, 9 Oct 2025Copy citationEmbed

• 96.5%

  of non-spam community bans in January to June 2025 happened because the communities were unmoderated

  Reddit, r/RedditSafety, 9 Oct 2025Copy citationEmbed

• 23 million

  spam views are blocked daily before reaching a user, Reddit said in Q2 2026

  Reddit Q2 2026 shareholder letter, SEC, 30 Jul 2026Copy citationEmbed

These figures come from Reddit Statistics 2026: Users, Search, AI Citations and Ads, which puts them in context.