House sitting in Napa
Field report · updated 2026-07-29 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
177
in the last 12 months · at least 641 since 2014 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 98 · 2024 154 · 2025 170
Open sits1714 homes
Gapless days371 sit · 9 Sep
Only 79 Napa 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 Napa
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 37 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 9 Sep.
9 Sep1 handovers · 37 nights16 Oct
Remove that chain and 36 days remain — 2 sitters could live here at once.
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 16 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 21%cats only 14%other / no pets 7%
Common questions
Do house sits actually get filled in Napa?
Yes — at least 641 sits have provably completed in Napa since 2014, 177 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 Napa full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 37 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 9 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.