How Long Does a Used GMC Sierra 1500 Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 2,061 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the half-ton pickups it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 2,061 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used GMC Sierra 1500s sell within 36 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 2 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among half-ton pickups it ranks 3 of 7 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 16 days and a quarter take more than 74 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

36
days on lot
median
16–74
middle half
sells in
2,061
sales in
the sample
76,083
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2021 moves fastest at 32 days, while the 2024 sits for 47.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2025 GMC Sierra 1500 38.5 118 8,092
2024 GMC Sierra 1500 47 261 14,532
2023 GMC Sierra 1500 33.5 206 24,707
2022 GMC Sierra 1500 33 153 40,473
2021 GMC Sierra 1500 32 146 72,548
2020 GMC Sierra 1500 42 103 80,507
2019 GMC Sierra 1500 41 126 92,827
2018 GMC Sierra 1500 33 146 107,504
2017 GMC Sierra 1500 33 174 118,824
2016 GMC Sierra 1500 32 115 120,986
2015 GMC Sierra 1500 32 128 135,060
2014 GMC Sierra 1500 33 109 145,349

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

Ford F-150 36 d
GMC Sierra 1500 36 d
RAM 1500 38 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 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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