How Long Does a Used Jeep Cherokee Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 1,290 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: 1,290 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Jeep Cherokees 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 8 of 11 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 16 days and a quarter take more than 87 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

37
days on lot
median
16–87
middle half
sells in
1,290
sales in
the sample
99,653
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2016 moves fastest at 31 days, while the 2021 sits for 48.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2021 Jeep Cherokee 48 61 63,710
2020 Jeep Cherokee 37 95 83,142
2019 Jeep Cherokee 44 273 88,928
2018 Jeep Cherokee 45 77 100,359
2017 Jeep Cherokee 34.5 168 100,585
2016 Jeep Cherokee 31 209 109,008
2015 Jeep Cherokee 31.5 200 113,208
2014 Jeep Cherokee 34 163 119,353

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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