House sitting in Victoria
Owners who listed here mostly had sitters to choose between: 74% of 251 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Victoria has 30 open sits across 29 homes right now. Living in sits is fair here: 37 gapless days across 1 sit starting 16 Sep.
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 16 Sep — fair, against the cities we track.
Remove that chain and 33 days remain — 2 sitters could live here at once.
Hosts post about 8 weeks ahead (half between 39–103 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 8 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 Victoria listings average 2.2 applicants, and 10% currently have none at all.
Only 43% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 30 open listings.
The median stay is 8.5 nights; 63% run a week or longer.
Of 29 homes: 13 are dogs-only, 8 cats-only, 8 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 Victoria?
Measured, not guessed: of 251 Victoria listings watched from zero applications, 74% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 14% 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 Victoria?
Yes — at least 1,777 sits have provably completed in Victoria since 2013, 584 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 Victoria?
Open listings currently average 2.2 applicants, 10% have none yet, and only 43% have three or more — snapshots across 30 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Victoria house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 8 weeks before its start date; half post between 39 and 103 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Victoria?
The median stay is 8.5 nights, and 63% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Victoria full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 37 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 16 Sep. 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 (“balanced”, “fair”) 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.