House sitting in Washington
Owners who listed here mostly had sitters to choose between: 62% of 832 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Washington has 181 open sits across 114 homes right now. Living in sits is good here: 68 gapless days across 1 sit starting 25 Aug.
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 68 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 25 Aug — good, against the cities we track. At least one sit is open on 97 consecutive days from today, which is the ceiling — those windows overlap and cannot all be taken.
Remove that chain and 68 days, 58 days, 51 days (+6 more) remain — 10 sitters could live here at once.
Hosts post about 7 weeks ahead (half between 27–96 days) — for far-out dates, most options don't exist yet.
Listing? Posting about 7 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 Washington listings average 1.7 applicants, and 24% currently have none at all.
Only 27% of listings have three or more applicants. Counts are as reported on each listing at our last refresh, across 181 open listings.
The median stay is 8 nights; 59% run a week or longer.
Of 114 homes: 46 are dogs-only, 39 cats-only, 24 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
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.
Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Washington?
Measured, not guessed: of 832 Washington listings watched from zero applications, 62% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 8% 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 Washington?
Yes — at least 5,425 sits have provably completed in Washington since 2015, 1,842 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 Washington?
Open listings currently average 1.7 applicants, 24% have none yet, and only 27% have three or more — snapshots across 181 live listings at last refresh, not final tallies.
How far in advance are Washington house sits posted?
The median listing appears about 7 weeks before its start date; half post between 27 and 96 days out.
How long is a typical house sit in Washington?
The median stay is 8 nights, and 59% of open sits run a week or longer.
Can you live in Washington full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 68 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 25 Aug. 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”, “good”) 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.