How Long Does a Used Ford F-150 Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 7,125 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the half-ton pickups it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Nov 2026 Sample: 7,125 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Ford F-150s sell within 36 days, against an all-vehicle median of 39 days — that is 3 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among half-ton pickups it ranks 4 of 7 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 16 days and a quarter take more than 76 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

36
days on lot
median
16–76
middle half
sells in
7,125
sales in
the sample
96,197
average
miles
$28,763
average
list price
$1,188
est. holding
cost*
“We need to buy and sell more cars to net the same profit levels.”
— An independent dealer in the Midwest, Cox Automotive's Q4 2025 Dealer Sentiment Index

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2007 moves fastest at 25 days, while the 2025 sits for 42.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles Avg list price
2025 Ford F-150 42 187 6,380 $63,212
2024 Ford F-150 42 309 15,290 $53,924
2023 Ford F-150 38 437 29,594 $49,327
2022 Ford F-150 37.5 354 53,497 $40,260
2021 Ford F-150 38 442 75,320 $34,864
2020 Ford F-150 42 505 87,832 $29,636
2019 Ford F-150 37 736 92,206 $27,981
2018 Ford F-150 36 947 102,863 $25,831
2017 Ford F-150 32 526 113,620 $24,434
2016 Ford F-150 31 535 128,099 $21,242
2015 Ford F-150 31 398 131,151 $19,808
2014 Ford F-150 37 406 119,412 $18,551
2013 Ford F-150 37.5 420 133,826 $16,341
2012 Ford F-150 36 178 142,142 $15,096
2011 Ford F-150 31.5 166 145,645 $14,902
2010 Ford F-150 36 137 147,314 $12,799
2009 Ford F-150 29 42 143,926 $11,265
2008 Ford F-150 38 49 163,147 $9,142
2007 Ford F-150 25 47 148,975 $8,996

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Against the half-ton pickups it competes with

Average days on lot, sales since January 2024. Shorter is better. Minimum 150 sales per model.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 66.9 days while the median is 39. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

Average list price is the advertised price at the time of listing, not necessarily what the buyer paid — the field that records the actual sale price is populated on a small fraction of sales, too few to publish. We exclude listings under $500 or over $200,000 as data-entry artifacts.

*Est. holding cost is Ford F-150's median days on lot multiplied by $33, the industry-wide daily floorplan cost per vehicle reported in the NIADA 2025 Used Car Industry Report — an external benchmark, not a figure derived from AutoRaptor data. It's a reminder that a slower-turning model doesn't just sell later, it costs more to hold.

There's a second cost to sitting: Full-Size Pickups — the closest category to a Ford F-150 — lost about 10.8% of their wholesale value over 2025, against 13.9% across all vehicles (Black Book, via the NIADA 2025 Used Car Industry Report). A car that sits isn't just costing floorplan interest — it's quietly worth less than it was when it arrived.

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