House sitting in Los Angeles
Owners who listed here mostly had sitters to choose between: 86% of 795 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Los Angeles has 101 open sits across 78 homes right now. Living in sits is excellent here: 308 gapless days across 14 back-to-back sits starting 27 Jul.
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 308 consecutive housed days across 14 back-to-back sits beginning 27 Jul — excellent, against the cities we track.
Remove that chain and 94 days, 77 days, 63 days (+3 more) remain — 7 sitters could live here at once.
Hosts post about 6 weeks ahead (half between 23–70 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 6 weeks out is normal here.
of owners had a choice of sitters within 48 hours
filled to the five-application cap within 48 hours
Floors, not verdicts — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement, and these are 48-hour rates: a speed gauge, not eventual success; many sits fill after the window. How we measure →
Open Los Angeles listings average 3.4 applicants, and 4% currently have none at all.
Only 67% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 101 open listings.
The median stay is 9 nights; 68% run a week or longer.
Of 78 homes: 36 are dogs-only, 28 cats-only, 10 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
Percentile rank among the 27 tracked cities with meaningful supply. Competition reads sitter-side: a higher percentile means more applicants per open listing — harder for sitters, busier for owners.
Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Los Angeles?
Measured, not guessed: of 795 Los Angeles listings watched from zero applications, 86% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 35% reached the five-application cap. Both are floors — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement — and both are 48-hour rates: listings often keep drawing applications after the window we count.
Do house sits actually get filled in Los Angeles?
Yes — at least 5,377 sits have provably completed in Los Angeles since 2015, 1,797 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 Los Angeles?
Open listings currently average 3.4 applicants, 4% have none yet, and only 67% have three or more — snapshots across 101 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Los Angeles house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 6 weeks before its start date; half post between 23 and 70 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Los Angeles?
The median stay is 9 nights, and 68% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Los Angeles full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 308 consecutive housed days across 14 back-to-back sits beginning 27 Jul. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.
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 (“competitive”, “excellent”) are percentiles against the 27 cities in this corpus with meaningful supply — never editorial.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.