About r/finance
In its own words:
Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads.
Community guide
r/finance (#521, about 2.1 million subscribers) is oriented around: Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads. A rules list was not in our snapshot—use the live sidebar before posting. Recent phrase samples include “building wealth”, “real estate”, “listing cat”, “wall street”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Conversation lately clusters around building wealth, real estate, listing cat, wall street.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 13, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 903 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/tennis (#520) and ahead of r/HouseOfTheDragon (#522) in our ranking.
What sets r/finance apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 2.2 comments per post, against 13.1 for a typical large subreddit.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/finance climbed from 2,139,093 to 2,145,836 subscribers (+6.7K, +0.32%). That is about 153 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/finance talks about
Across 38 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “wealth”, “wall”, “exchange”, “model” and “decisions”. Other frequent themes are built, building, protecting, planning, actually and eventually. Recurring phrases include “building wealth”, “real estate”, “listing cat” and “wall street”. By format, 34% are links, 32% are images and 24% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
The public archive holds 285,299 posts and 613,731 comments in total, about 2.2 comments per post.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/finance and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/finance have?
r/finance has 2,145,836 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #521 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,743 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/finance created?
r/finance was created on Mar 13, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Mar 18, 2008.
Is r/finance still active?
Over its lifetime the archive counts 285,299 posts and 613,731 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/finance?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads.” Recent post titles often mention wealth, wall, exchange, model and decisions. Most posts are links (34%).
Is r/finance SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/finance as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/finance?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/finance accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/finance?
Communities with similar topics include r/personalfinance (21.9M), r/PersonalFinanceCanada (1.9M), r/FinancialCareers (1.8M), r/povertyfinance (2.9M) and r/CryptoMarkets (2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/finance.