House sitting in Longmont

Field report · updated 2026-07-27 · live corpus

Longmont has 36 open sits across 17 homes right now. Living in sits is thin here: 20 gapless days across 2 back-to-back sits starting 13 Oct.

Open sits36across 17 homes
Applicants / sit0.5tracked-city median 1
Median stay7 nights53% run a week+
Posting lead16 wkhalf post 61–150d out
Gapless days202 back-to-back sits, from 13 Oct
Plan your dates in Longmontthin
1.2 sits open on a typical day

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 20 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 13 Oct — thin, against the cities we track.

13 Oct2 handovers · 20 nights2 Nov
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 40 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
6 months listed today

Hosts post about 16 weeks ahead (half between 61–150 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.

Listing? Posting about 16 weeks out is normal here.

July 2026
4
August 2026
8
September 2026
2
October 2026
5
November 2026
10
December 2026
4
For pet parents · what actually happened
116

sits provably completed in Longmont in the last 12 months

at least 327 since 2019 · each one required a chosen sitter

Only 77 Longmont listings have resolved inside our measurement window so far — below the 100 we require before publishing a fill rate, where a proportion still carries a wide interval. Rather than print a number that would mostly be noise, this slot stays empty until the sample is real. What we can already say: at least 327 sits have provably completed in Longmont since 2019, 116 of them in the last 12 months — each one required a chosen sitter, so this market does fill, at a pace our 48-hour instrument hasn't yet measured. The supply and chaining figures below are counts, not estimates, and carry no such floor.

For sitters · competition right nowa sitter's market
36 open listings · snapshot

Open Longmont listings average 0.5 applicants, and 67% currently have none at all.

Only 6% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 36 open listings.

Stays & pets
17 homes open now

The median stay is 7 nights; 53% run a week or longer.

≤3 nights 36%4–7 25%8–14 33%15–28 6%

Of 17 homes: 9 are dogs-only, 0 cats-only, 6 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.

dogs only 53%dogs + cats 35%other / no pets 12%
How Longmont compares
rank among 26 tracked cities
Sitter competition (a sitter's market)10th percentile
Open supply (one of the thinner markets)12th 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 6% 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 16 weeks before its start date; half post between 61 and 150 days out.

How long is a typical house sit in Longmont?

The median stay is 7 nights, and 53% of open sits run a week or longer.

Can you live in Longmont full-time on house sits?

Today's board chains into 20 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 13 Oct. 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.