How Long Does a Used Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 3,787 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the half-ton pickups it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Oct 2026 Sample: 3,787 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Chevrolet Silverado 1500s 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 2 of 7 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 15 days and a quarter take more than 76 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

36
days on lot
median
15–76
middle half
sells in
3,787
sales in
the sample
98,563
average
miles
$27,033
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 2012 moves fastest at 23 days, while the 2021 sits for 48.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles Avg list price
2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 34 53 7,900 $51,074
2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 46 179 19,432 $48,445
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 41 172 30,829 $43,169
2022 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 46 246 45,073 $38,616
2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 48 290 78,722 $32,108
2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 36 307 95,856 $28,852
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 39 321 90,986 $28,509
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 42 385 103,596 $25,656
2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 36 331 109,328 $23,699
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 34 277 119,179 $21,198
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 28 296 127,338 $19,880
2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 29 275 135,936 $18,207
2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 33 116 140,554 $15,066
2012 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 23 75 136,323 $15,118
2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 34 89 144,304 $13,368
2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 41 42 143,099 $13,549
2008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 37 50 160,199 $10,205

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

Chevrolet Silverado 1500 36 d
Ford F-150 36 d
RAM 1500 39 d

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 67 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 Chevrolet Silverado 1500'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 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — 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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