House sitting in Boulder
Owners who listed here had roughly even odds of a choice of sitters: 58% of 448 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Boulder has 83 open sits across 54 homes right now. Living in sits is fair here: 44 gapless days across 4 back-to-back sits starting 9 Oct.
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 44 consecutive housed days across 4 back-to-back sits beginning 9 Oct — fair, against the cities we track. At least one sit is open on 134 consecutive days from today, which is the ceiling — those windows overlap and cannot all be taken.
Hosts post about 12 weeks ahead (half between 53–128 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 12 weeks out is normal here.
of owners had a choice of sitters within 48 hours
filled to the five-application cap within 48 hours
Floors, not verdicts — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement, and these are 48-hour rates: a speed gauge, not eventual success; many sits fill after the window. How we measure →
Open Boulder listings average 1.5 applicants, and 37% currently have none at all.
Only 30% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 83 open listings.
The median stay is 8 nights; 65% run a week or longer.
Of 54 homes: 27 are dogs-only, 12 cats-only, 13 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
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.
Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Boulder?
Measured, not guessed: of 448 Boulder listings watched from zero applications, 58% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 5% 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 Boulder?
Yes — at least 3,130 sits have provably completed in Boulder since 2014, 1,050 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 Boulder?
Open listings currently average 1.5 applicants, 37% have none yet, and only 30% have three or more — snapshots across 83 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Boulder house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 12 weeks before its start date; half post between 53 and 128 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Boulder?
The median stay is 8 nights, and 65% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Boulder full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 44 consecutive housed days across 4 back-to-back sits beginning 9 Oct. 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.
Judgment words (“balanced”, “fair”) 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.