House sitting in Folkestone
Field report · updated 2026-07-28 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
65
in the last 12 months · at least 158 since 2019 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 24 · 2024 27 · 2025 61
Open sits115 homes
Gapless days111 sit · 29 Sep
Only 35 Folkestone 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 Folkestone
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 11 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 29 Sep.
29 Sep1 handovers · 11 nights10 Oct
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 44 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Stays & pets
Too few open listings here to describe a typical stay length.
Of 5 homes: 0 are dogs-only, 3 cats-only, 2 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs + cats 40%cats only 60%
Common questions
Do house sits actually get filled in Folkestone?
Yes — at least 158 sits have provably completed in Folkestone since 2019, 65 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.
Can you live in Folkestone full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 11 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 29 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.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.