House sitting in Colorado Springs
Field report · updated 2026-07-29 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
193
in the last 12 months · at least 610 since 2018 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 82 · 2024 150 · 2025 220
Open sits4028 homes
Applicants / sit0.5median 1 across cities
Median stay7.5 nights55% run a week+
Posting lead16 wkhalf 74–150d out
Gapless days402 back-to-back sits · 21 Sep
Only 93 Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springsfair
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 40 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 21 Sep — fair, against the cities we track.
21 Sep2 handovers · 40 nights31 Oct
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 2 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Hosts post about 16 weeks ahead (half between 74–150 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 16 weeks out is normal here.
For sitters · competition right nowa sitter's market
Open Colorado Springs listings average 0.5 applicants, and 65% currently have none at all.
Stays & pets
The median stay is 7.5 nights; 55% run a week or longer.
≤3 nights 15%4–7 35%8–14 22%15–28 28%
Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 46%dogs + cats 32%cats only 14%other / no pets 7%
How Colorado Springs compares
Sitter competition (a sitter's market)10th percentile
Open supply (one of the thinner markets)24th percentile
Chainability (fair)36th 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
Do house sits actually get filled in Colorado Springs?
Yes — at least 610 sits have provably completed in Colorado Springs since 2018, 193 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 Colorado Springs?
Open listings currently average 0.5 applicants, 65% have none yet, and only 5% have three or more — snapshots across 40 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Colorado Springs house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 16 weeks before its start date; half post between 74 and 150 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Colorado Springs?
The median stay is 7.5 nights, and 55% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Colorado Springs full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 40 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 21 Sep. 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”, “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.