House sitting in Lafayette
Field report · updated 2026-07-28 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
80
in the last 12 months · at least 206 since 2021 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 27 · 2024 47 · 2025 61
Open sits117 homes
Gapless days121 sit · 1 Sep
Only 41 Lafayette 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 Lafayette
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 12 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 1 Sep.
1 Sep1 handovers · 12 nights13 Sep
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 60 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Stays & pets
Too few open listings here to describe a typical stay length.
Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 57%dogs + cats 29%cats only 14%
Common questions
Do house sits actually get filled in Lafayette?
Yes — at least 206 sits have provably completed in Lafayette since 2021, 80 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 Lafayette full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 12 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 1 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.