House sitting in Bend
Field report · updated 2026-07-29 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Drew 2+ applicants sitters
41%
about 4 in 10 · 2+ applications in 48h · n=452 · ±5pp
43 measured cities run 22–95% · median 77%
Filled to the cap in 48h
3%
filled to the five-application cap · each watched from zero applications
speed, not eventual success
Sits provably completed
1,009
in the last 12 months · at least 2,775 since 2016 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 367 · 2024 630 · 2025 979
Open sits179125 homes
Applicants / sit0.7median 1 across cities
Median stay7 nights58% run a week+
Posting lead11 wkhalf 44–122d out
Gapless days13310 back-to-back sits · 1 Aug
Floors, not verdicts — fast-filling listings escape measurement, and these are 48-hour rates: a speed gauge; many sits fill after the window. · How we measure →
Plan your dates in Bendexcellent
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 133 consecutive housed days across 10 back-to-back sits beginning 1 Aug — excellent, against the cities we track.
1 Aug10 handovers · 133 nights12 Dec
Remove that chain and 99 days, 86 days, 68 days (+6 more) remain — 10 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 11 weeks ahead (half between 44–122 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 11 weeks out is normal here.
For sitters · competition right nowa sitter's market
Open Bend listings average 0.7 applicants, and 56% currently have none at all.
Stays & pets
The median stay is 7 nights; 58% run a week or longer.
≤3 nights 14%4–7 38%8–14 28%15–28 16%29+ 4%
Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 66%dogs + cats 18%cats only 10%other / no pets 6%
How Bend compares
Sitter competition (a sitter's market)10th percentile
Open supply (one of the deepest markets)88th percentile
Chainability (excellent)92nd percentile
Percentile rank among the 26 tracked cities with meaningful supply. Competition reads sitter-side: a higher percentile means more applicants per open listing — harder for sitters, busier for owners.
Common questions
Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Bend?
Measured, not guessed: of 452 Bend listings watched from zero applications, 41% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 3% reached the five-application cap. Both are floors — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement — and both are 48-hour rates: listings often keep drawing applications after the window we count.
Do house sits actually get filled in Bend?
Yes — at least 2,775 sits have provably completed in Bend since 2016, 1,009 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 Bend?
Open listings currently average 0.7 applicants, 56% have none yet, and only 5% have three or more — snapshots across 179 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Bend house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 11 weeks before its start date; half post between 44 and 122 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Bend?
The median stay is 7 nights, and 58% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Bend full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 133 consecutive housed days across 10 back-to-back sits beginning 1 Aug. 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.
Judgment words (“a sitter's market”, “excellent”) are percentiles against the 26 cities in this corpus with meaningful supply — never editorial.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.