Open house statistics are strangely hard to find. The industry publishes plenty about buyers, yet almost nothing about the listings themselves: how many actually hold an open house, on which day, at what hour, and for how long. So we measured it. In one July 2026 week, 6.8% of active listings across 49 major US cities had an open house scheduled, and the patterns underneath that number are sharper than most agents expect.
This page is the first edition of an ongoing study. We analyzed 13,757 scheduled open houses against 201,049 active listings, city by city, using publicly listed data. Every number below is reproducible from the downloadable dataset, and you are welcome to cite any of it with attribution.
How many listings hold an open house?
6.8% of active listings had an open house scheduled for the week of July 18, 2026. That is the panel-wide figure across all 49 cities: 13,757 open houses against 201,049 active listings.
That average hides the real story. Open house culture is intensely local, and the spread between cities is a factor of 35. In Irvine, California, one in four active listings held an open house that week. In Detroit, it was one in 140.
The gradient tracks inventory pressure more than anything else. Tight coastal markets, where a well-run weekend can still produce multiple offers, sit at the top of the table. High-inventory Sun Belt and Rust Belt markets, where listings compete for scarce buyers, sit at the bottom. If open houses feel dead in your market, or unavoidable, this table probably explains why.
The city league table
| # | City | Share of listings with an open house | Open houses | Active listings | Median open-house listing price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irvine, CA | 24.5% | 237 | 968 | $1,599,000 |
| 2 | San Jose, CA | 23.9% | 322 | 1,346 | $1,299,000 |
| 3 | San Francisco, CA | 23.4% | 190 | 811 | $1,098,000 |
| 4 | Boston, MA | 17.8% | 387 | 2,172 | $839,000 |
| 5 | Seattle, WA | 16.0% | 458 | 2,861 | $898,375 |
| 6 | San Diego, CA | 13.3% | 416 | 3,127 | $999,450 |
| 7 | Los Angeles, CA | 12.5% | 1,295 | 10,320 | $1,299,999 |
| 8 | Richmond, VA | 11.0% | 159 | 1,443 | $454,950 |
| 9 | Boise, ID | 10.8% | 107 | 993 | $549,900 |
| 10 | Minneapolis, MN | 10.1% | 194 | 1,923 | $399,900 |
| 11 | Virginia Beach, VA | 9.9% | 105 | 1,058 | $540,000 |
| 12 | Charlotte, NC | 9.6% | 436 | 4,524 | $514,500 |
| 13 | Sacramento, CA | 9.5% | 188 | 1,987 | $544,750 |
| 14 | Salt Lake City, UT | 8.9% | 86 | 966 | $599,950 |
| 15 | Omaha, NE | 8.7% | 117 | 1,350 | $414,900 |
| 16 | Nashville, TN | 8.4% | 452 | 5,404 | $599,900 |
| 17 | Portland, OR | 8.4% | 296 | 3,544 | $662,500 |
| 18 | Raleigh, NC | 8.4% | 209 | 2,498 | $499,999 |
| 19 | Columbus, OH | 8.1% | 215 | 2,664 | $379,777 |
| 20 | Washington, DC | 8.1% | 261 | 3,236 | $675,000 |
| 21 | Cincinnati, OH | 7.9% | 161 | 2,041 | $374,900 |
| 22 | Houston, TX | 7.6% | 1,187 | 15,664 | $419,800 |
| 23 | Fort Worth, TX | 7.5% | 414 | 5,504 | $379,000 |
| 24 | Dallas, TX | 7.3% | 404 | 5,564 | $675,000 |
| 25 | Chicago, IL | 7.2% | 397 | 5,536 | $569,000 |
| 26 | Denver, CO | 6.9% | 314 | 4,548 | $675,000 |
| 27 | Jacksonville, FL | 6.9% | 318 | 4,609 | $368,197 |
| 28 | Pittsburgh, PA | 6.9% | 159 | 2,288 | $344,900 |
| 29 | Albuquerque, NM | 6.6% | 105 | 1,595 | $450,000 |
| 30 | Kansas City, MO | 6.4% | 155 | 2,405 | $464,950 |
| 31 | Tampa, FL | 6.4% | 232 | 3,624 | $567,500 |
| 32 | Austin, TX | 6.3% | 378 | 6,028 | $682,500 |
| 33 | Tucson, AZ | 6.2% | 248 | 4,006 | $475,000 |
| 34 | Phoenix, AZ | 6.1% | 350 | 5,775 | $664,499 |
| 35 | Indianapolis, IN | 5.8% | 230 | 3,951 | $315,000 |
| 36 | El Paso, TX | 5.5% | 169 | 3,070 | $375,000 |
| 37 | St. Louis, MO | 5.1% | 97 | 1,906 | $311,000 |
| 38 | Oklahoma City, OK | 5.0% | 246 | 4,886 | $365,000 |
| 39 | Orlando, FL | 4.7% | 207 | 4,381 | $549,000 |
| 40 | Milwaukee, WI | 4.3% | 47 | 1,089 | $300,000 |
| 41 | Baltimore, MD | 4.1% | 125 | 3,038 | $350,000 |
| 42 | Colorado Springs, CO | 4.1% | 172 | 4,155 | $522,450 |
| 43 | Philadelphia, PA | 4.1% | 301 | 7,351 | $419,900 |
| 44 | Atlanta, GA | 3.9% | 250 | 6,447 | $522,500 |
| 45 | Las Vegas, NV | 3.3% | 286 | 8,549 | $627,500 |
| 46 | San Antonio, TX | 2.9% | 399 | 13,630 | $415,000 |
| 47 | Memphis, TN | 2.5% | 84 | 3,365 | $327,000 |
| 48 | Miami, FL | 1.9% | 165 | 8,592 | $869,900 |
| 49 | Detroit, MI | 0.7% | 30 | 4,257 | $244,950 |
Every one of the top seven cities is a coastal, supply-constrained market. Miami is the interesting outlier at the bottom: a famous real estate city where the open house barely exists, likely a product of its condo-heavy inventory (condos hold opens at a lower rate everywhere, as shown below) and a sales culture built on private showings.
Saturday has taken over
The Sunday open house is a real estate cliche. The data says it is out of date:
| Day | Share of open houses |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 54.6% |
| Sunday | 28.7% |
| Thursday | 9.1% |
| Friday | 7.1% |
| Monday through Wednesday | 0.4% |
Saturday now hosts nearly twice as many open houses as Sunday. Weekends still dominate at 83.3% combined, but the balance has clearly shifted to the front of the weekend, where an interested buyer still has Sunday available for a second look.
The other surprise is the weekday tail: about one in six opens runs on a Thursday or Friday. These are largely broker opens and twilight showings, and they are common enough to count as a real strategy rather than a novelty. If you want the traffic playbook around any of these slots, our guide on how to promote an open house covers the 10-day runway.
Start times and the two-hour standard
Open houses cluster tightly in the early afternoon. Four start times cover 80.2% of everything:
| Start time (local) | Share |
|---|---|
| 11:00 am | 18.9% |
| 12:00 pm | 21.1% |
| 1:00 pm | 22.9% |
| 2:00 pm | 17.2% |
1pm is the single most common start, and almost nothing starts after 4pm.
Duration is even more standardized. The median open house is scheduled for exactly two hours, and 56.8% of all opens run precisely 120 minutes. Three-hour opens make up most of the rest. Whatever an individual coach recommends, the market has settled on 1pm to 3pm on a Saturday as the default American open house.
Price changes the odds, until it doesn't
Here is where the data gets genuinely useful for pricing conversations. We measured the open-house rate within each price band, not just the mix of homes that held one:
| Price band | Weekly open-house rate |
|---|---|
| Under $300k | 2.4% |
| $300k to $500k | 7.2% |
| $500k to $750k | 9.0% |
| $750k to $1M | 11.1% |
| $1M to $2M | 12.8% |
| Over $2M | 9.1% |
The rate climbs steadily with price. A $1M to $2M listing is 5.3 times more likely to hold an open house in a given week than a listing under $300k. Then it bends: above $2M the rate falls back, as ultra-luxury sellers trade public opens for private, vetted showings.
The economics behind the curve are straightforward. An open house costs an agent the same Saturday regardless of price point, while the commission it protects scales with the list price. At the entry level the hours are harder to justify; in the luxury band they clearly pay; at the very top, privacy and security outweigh foot traffic.
Property type shows the same logic in miniature: single-family homes held opens at 8.5%, townhouses at 8.3%, and condos at 6.2%, where building access and HOA rules add friction.
The median open-house listing in our panel is priced at $584,900, well above typical US home values. Whether that traffic converts is a different question, and one we take up separately in do open houses work?
New listings get the opens
Open houses front-load hard. 26.8% of scheduled opens belong to listings in their first week on market, and the median open-housed listing has been listed for 26 days.
| Days on market | Share of open houses |
|---|---|
| 0 to 7 days | 26.8% |
| 8 to 14 days | 10.8% |
| 15 to 30 days | 17.9% |
| 31 to 90 days | 30.8% |
| Over 90 days | 13.6% |
The debut open house is clearly standard practice. But the 31-to-90-day band is nearly as large, which points to the second job an open house does: re-igniting a listing that has gone quiet. Two very different assignments, one tool. Either way, the visitors only matter if you capture who came through the door; that is a sign-in sheet problem and a follow-up problem, not a scheduling one.
Method and limitations
Source. We analyzed open houses publicly scheduled on Redfin for 50 major US cities, collected on Thursday, July 16, 2026, covering opens for the week of July 18. Numerators are per-listing records (13,760 raw, 13,757 after de-duplication); denominators are each city's active for-sale listing counts, plus per-price-band and per-property-type counts, from the same source at the same moment.
Scope. City limits, not metro areas. "Los Angeles" means the city of Los Angeles, not the region. Cleveland was collected but excluded from the league table: the source returned zero in-city open houses while backfilling nearby suburbs, so its true city rate could not be measured cleanly.
What this can and cannot say. These are opens posted online through MLS feeds; opens promoted only by sign or social media are invisible here, so true rates run somewhat higher than reported. Coverage varies by MLS. This is a one-week summer snapshot from a single platform, and seasonal patterns will differ; we will publish quarterly editions against the same fixed 49-city panel so the numbers become comparable over time.
We publish aggregate statistics only. No addresses, listing details, or agent names are included in the dataset.
About us. OpenHouse builds an open house sign-in app for real estate agents. We built this study because the industry data we wanted to read did not exist. The study is editorially independent of the product: nothing in the numbers depends on what tool anyone uses at the door. Context on how buyers use open houses is available from NAR's research division.
How to cite this study
You are welcome to cite this study, with attribution, under CC BY 4.0. A copy-ready citation:
OpenHouse (2026). Open House Statistics 2026: When America Holds Open Houses. Analysis of 13,757 publicly listed open houses across 49 US cities, week of July 18, 2026. openhousekiosk.com/research/open-house-statistics/
Download the city-level dataset: open-house-statistics.csv
Press and data questions: [email protected]. We are happy to run custom cuts of the data for journalists on request.
Frequently asked questions
What percentage of home listings hold an open house?
In our July 2026 snapshot, 6.8% of active listings across 49 major US cities had an open house scheduled for the coming week. The range by city is enormous: 24.5% in Irvine, CA down to 0.7% in Detroit, MI.
What day are most open houses held?
Saturday. 54.6% of scheduled open houses in our 49-city snapshot ran on a Saturday, nearly double Sunday's 28.7%. Weekends combined account for 83.3%, and about one in six opens runs on a Thursday or Friday.
What time do most open houses start?
Between 11am and 2pm local time, which covers 80.2% of all scheduled opens. The single most common start time is 1pm.
How long is a typical open house?
Two hours. The median scheduled duration in our data is exactly 120 minutes, and 56.8% of all open houses run exactly two hours. Three-hour opens are the next most common at about a quarter of the total.
Do expensive homes get more open houses?
Yes, up to a point. Listings priced $1M to $2M held open houses at a 12.8% weekly rate versus 2.4% for homes under $300k, a 5.3x gap. Above $2M the rate drops back to 9.1% as ultra-luxury sellers shift to private showings.
Can I cite these open house statistics?
Yes. The study and the downloadable city-level dataset are free to cite under CC BY 4.0. Credit OpenHouse (openhousekiosk.com) and link to this page. The citation block above has a copy-ready format.