House sitting in Longmont
Field report · updated 2026-07-29 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
116
in the last 12 months · at least 327 since 2019 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 34 · 2024 75 · 2025 131
Open sits3620 homes
Applicants / sit0.5median 1 across cities
Median stay7.5 nights64% run a week+
Posting lead19 wkhalf 68–163d out
Gapless days221 sit · 29 Aug
Only 77 Longmont 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 Longmontthin
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 22 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 29 Aug — thin, against the cities we track.
29 Aug1 handovers · 22 nights20 Sep
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 12 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Hosts post about 19 weeks ahead (half between 68–163 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 19 weeks out is normal here.
For sitters · competition right nowa sitter's market
Open Longmont listings average 0.5 applicants, and 67% currently have none at all.
Stays & pets
The median stay is 7.5 nights; 64% run a week or longer.
≤3 nights 22%4–7 28%8–14 42%15–28 8%
Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 55%dogs + cats 30%cats only 5%other / no pets 10%
How Longmont compares
Sitter competition (a sitter's market)10th percentile
Open supply (one of the thinner markets)14th percentile
Chainability (thin)8th 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 Longmont?
Yes — at least 327 sits have provably completed in Longmont since 2019, 116 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 Longmont?
Open listings currently average 0.5 applicants, 67% have none yet, and only 3% have three or more — snapshots across 36 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Longmont house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 19 weeks before its start date; half post between 68 and 163 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Longmont?
The median stay is 7.5 nights, and 64% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Longmont full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 22 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 29 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”, “thin”) 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.