How Long Does a Used RAM 1500 Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 3,629 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: 3,629 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used RAM 1500s sell within 38 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 0 days slower than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among half-ton pickups it ranks 6 of 7 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 16 days and a quarter take more than 83 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

38
days on lot
median
16–83
middle half
sells in
3,629
sales in
the sample
94,874
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2015 moves fastest at 29 days, while the 2025 sits for 48.5.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2025 RAM 1500 48.5 102 8,573
2024 RAM 1500 35.5 44 19,620
2023 RAM 1500 32 101 35,782
2022 RAM 1500 42.5 268 47,291
2021 RAM 1500 37 261 71,500
2020 RAM 1500 40 266 80,475
2019 RAM 1500 37 450 89,108
2018 RAM 1500 43 321 93,873
2017 RAM 1500 41 425 106,877
2016 RAM 1500 39 341 113,005
2015 RAM 1500 29 231 126,514
2014 RAM 1500 33.5 240 132,178
2013 RAM 1500 39 123 127,228
2012 RAM 1500 38 107 132,234
2011 RAM 1500 37 63 132,466
2010 RAM 1500 44 41 142,774

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 66.7 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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