House sitting in Arlington
Field report · updated 2026-07-29 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
155
in the last 12 months · at least 504 since 2014 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 70 · 2024 115 · 2025 156
Open sits3620 homes
Applicants / sit1.7snapshot
Median stay7 nights83% run a week+
Posting lead13 wkhalf 50–134d out
Gapless days11212 back-to-back sits · 29 Jul
Only 83 Arlington listings have resolved inside our measurement window so far — below the 100 we require before publishing a rate; the slot stays empty until the sample is real. Counts carry no such floor. This market does fill — at a pace our 48-hour instrument hasn't yet measured. · How we measure →
Plan your dates in Arlington
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 112 consecutive housed days across 12 back-to-back sits beginning 29 Jul.
29 Jul12 handovers · 112 nights18 Nov
Remove that chain and 63 days remain — 2 sitters could live here at once.
todayopen sits · next 90 days · never a day with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Hosts post about 13 weeks ahead (half between 50–134 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 13 weeks out is normal here.
For sitters · competition right now
Open Arlington listings average 1.7 applicants, and 22% currently have none at all.
Stays & pets
The median stay is 7 nights; 83% run a week or longer.
≤3 nights 8%4–7 47%8–14 36%15–28 3%29+ 6%
Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 40%dogs + cats 30%cats only 25%other / no pets 5%
Common questions
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 1.7 applicants, 22% have none yet, and only 25% have three or more — snapshots across 36 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Arlington house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 13 weeks before its start date; half post between 50 and 134 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Arlington?
The median stay is 7 nights, and 83% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Arlington full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 112 consecutive housed days across 12 back-to-back sits beginning 29 Jul. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.
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How these figures are computed
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.