House sitting in Arlington
Arlington has 34 open sits across 21 homes right now. Living in sits here: 113 gapless days across 12 back-to-back sits starting 28 Jul.
Pick your window. We chain the open sits that hand over cleanly inside it — computed right here, nothing sent anywhere.
The open listings chain into 113 consecutive housed days across 12 back-to-back sits beginning 28 Jul.
Remove that chain and 63 days remain — 2 sitters could live here at once.
Hosts post about 12 weeks ahead (half between 48–119 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 12 weeks out is normal here.
sits provably completed in Arlington in the last 12 months
Only 83 Arlington listings have resolved inside our measurement window so far — below the 100 we require before publishing a fill rate, where a proportion still carries a wide interval. Rather than print a number that would mostly be noise, this slot stays empty until the sample is real. What we can already say: at least 504 sits have provably completed in Arlington since 2014, 155 of them in the last 12 months — each one required a chosen sitter, so this market does fill, at a pace our 48-hour instrument hasn't yet measured. The supply and chaining figures below are counts, not estimates, and carry no such floor.
Open Arlington listings average 1.8 applicants, and 18% currently have none at all.
Only 26% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 34 open listings.
The median stay is 7 nights; 79% run a week or longer.
Of 21 homes: 8 are dogs-only, 6 cats-only, 6 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
Do house sits actually get filled in Arlington?
Yes — at least 504 sits have provably completed in Arlington since 2014, 155 of them ending in the last 12 months. A completion requires a chosen sitter, so every one had at least one real application. These are floors from listing histories, and they cannot be turned into a fill rate: sits that went unfilled leave no trace, so there is no denominator.
How many sitters apply to a house sit in Arlington?
Open listings currently average 1.8 applicants, 18% have none yet, and only 26% have three or more — snapshots across 34 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Arlington house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 12 weeks before its start date; half post between 48 and 119 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Arlington?
The median stay is 7 nights, and 79% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Arlington full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 113 consecutive housed days across 12 back-to-back sits beginning 28 Jul. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.
Open sits — live listings with a current or future date window; a home with several windows counts once per window.
Applicants — the count reported on each open listing at last refresh.
Posting lead — days between a listing first appearing and its start date, median across open listings.
Gapless days — the longest bookable run of consecutive covered days assembled from open sits beginning within the next 90 days: no overlaps, each sit starting the day the previous one ends.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.