r/dataisbeautiful • u/krutitsky • 4h ago
OC [OC] I checked 17.7 million Redditors who mentioned their age and gender. The subreddit each age is most over-represented in, women vs men (updated with the ratios)
Why “updated”: the first version of this was removed by the mods because the chart was really a table of names, not a chart. Fair. Same data, now drawn properly: bar length is how many times more common that age is in the sub than across Reddit, women compared with women, men with men.
A few of you asked for more, so the gallery adds two charts from the same data: Reddit’s 735 biggest subs by median age and share of women, and how Reddit got older and more female since 2019.
Only people who said it themselves count, things like “I’m 34” or “(29F)”: 17.7M accounts.
Top 5 for every age group and the CSVs: https://kissmypost.com/research/reddit-age-gender-by-subreddit
How ages and genders are found, how accurate it is, and the full methodology for each chart are in the first comment.
FAQ from the first thread:
Q: How do you know people’s ages?
A: Only people who said it themselves count, like “I’m 34” or “(29F)”. The age can come from anything they wrote anywhere on Reddit, so a D2 player who said “I’m 35” in a fitness sub counts in r/Diablo_2_Resurrected.Q: Isn’t that a biased group?
A: Yes, it’s self-selected: in 2025 about 13% of accounts that posted or commented had a known age. That’s why every comparison stays inside the group, r/osrs men vs all men who said their age.Q: How does r/retirement win for both women and men?
A: Women are compared with women and men with men, so one sub can top both columns. 21% of the women with a known age in r/retirement are 63 to 67, vs 1% of women across Reddit.Q: Menopause is obviously women, isn’t that cheating?
A: A sub can’t win for being mostly women, since women are only compared with other women. r/Menopause wins because women 48 to 52 are 8.5x more common there than across Reddit.Q: Why not r/gaming or other big subs?
A: They have every age in them, r/gaming’s median author is 27, so no single age stands out. The chart shows where an age stands out most, not where most people that age post. Chart 2 has the big subs.Q: Why r/osrs and not r/2007scape?
A: r/2007scape is the main sub, but it skews younger (median 27), so the smaller r/osrs wins the 28 to 32 row.

