How Long Does a Used Ford Escape Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 2,141 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the compact suvs it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 2,141 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Ford Escapes sell within 37 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 1 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among compact suvs it ranks 7 of 11 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 15 days and a quarter take more than 83 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

37
days on lot
median
15–83
middle half
sells in
2,141
sales in
the sample
96,759
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2010 moves fastest at 27 days, while the 2025 sits for 70.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2025 Ford Escape 70 44 4,628
2024 Ford Escape 34.5 50 11,371
2022 Ford Escape 42 73 56,190
2021 Ford Escape 66 79 58,771
2020 Ford Escape 42 183 80,856
2019 Ford Escape 39 208 88,371
2018 Ford Escape 42.5 298 94,863
2017 Ford Escape 32 359 100,158
2016 Ford Escape 30 151 103,165
2015 Ford Escape 33 116 109,610
2014 Ford Escape 37 161 121,679
2013 Ford Escape 36 123 126,929
2012 Ford Escape 30 64 126,954
2011 Ford Escape 32 49 141,965
2010 Ford Escape 27 51 136,579

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

Against the compact suvs 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 66.7 days while the median is 38. 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.

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