How often does someone knock on your door?

Very interesting. It looks like I am not so unusual to have only a few knocks a year. In fact, after I started this thread I got to wondering if I had ever lived anywhere where I got more than a few knocks per year. I really can’t think of a time when it was common for strangers to come to my door.

Nobody but me has a small child with friends who come over to play all the time?

I was just going to say that I have two kids and we live on a street with lots of kids. There are some days when I want to disconnect the doorbell and put up a sign that says, “Go Away”. :stuck_out_tongue: Usually I enjoy it though and the kids really enjoy being able to just knock on doors until someone comes out to play. Because of the kids, we know our neighbors really well and it isn’t uncommon for someone to just stop by when they need/want something.

There are four apartments on my landing. So if hear them knocking on other doors, too, they have no chance that I will grace them with my hospitality. Those are only a few times a year. A couple more times a year, if my door seems to be singled out for special treatment, I usually go and see who it is.

I would refuse to live in a city where it is unsafe to answer a knock at a door or otherwise be responsive to strangers, and it’s been 30 or 40 years since I have lived in such a city…

3 or 4 times a year, kids selling stuff.

Nobody I know would stop by without texting or calling.

Never. We are the last of three homes on a long, gravel, private road. And have three loud dogs. Deliveries get sent to my work. If a friend calls and comes over the dogs bark long before they are out of their car. If my buddy Norman comes over, he yells at the dogs, “it’s me, Norman, I brought hamburgers.” Once inside he always laughs at the dogs for falling for his hamburger ploy. Always.

We’ve lived in this house for a year, and we’ve had maybe 5 times that someone who wasn’t either invited or delivering something has knocked on the door. Two of those were people trying to give me horses.

Pretty much never. Only have one neighbor, And I will always know before hand if he is coming over and will see him pull in the drive and greet them outside.

Same goes for when we have other company. Or we will be picking them up in town.

Ya can’t get here in the winter without a 4x4. So that cuts down on ‘traffic’ and it’s a dead end road.

We don’t get packages delivered here. It’s much easier to get them delivered to work.

I did have some building inspections done this year, but again, I knew they where coming, and the doggie alert goes off way before they can make it to the door.

Currently I’m sharing with others, and nobody comes to visit me, so they’re always for someone else. But it’s probably only once every couple of weeks, and let others do the answering as much as possible.

No door-knockers of an annoying sales/religion/irritant bent for a long time, I’m happy to say. Probably due to the futility of this particular suburb bearing fruit.

Once or twice a week, minimum. My condo complex has a stupid numbering system - each of the four buildings has a separate address but they all use the same unit numbers, so visitors and delivery people show up looking for one of the other #26s. Most annoying are the people who look at me and try to peer around me into the condo, clearly suspecting that - in the 3 minutes since their friend/relative buzzed them in - a black guy has broken in and taken them hostage, leaving them bound and gagged behind the sofa while he sends them away.

You live in Idaho?

Almost never. Official things included – the local deliverypersons like to phone up instead so i can get downstairs while they’re still wrestling my stuff out of the car.

The last couple times anyone has rung the bell for a reason other than giving us things we’ve ordered, it’s been the cops. Once looking for someone who’d obviously given them a fake address, and once asking for a roommate who’d forgotten to move her car the night before a street fair.

I expect it to happen more once one of my friends moves to an apartment just a few minutes’ walk away, but only because the building has a security door. If I had any way to give him a key to it without breaking the law or lying to the landlord, he’d just walk in.

Almost never. The occasional UPS guy I don’t hear first, but that’s it. The Mormons know to keep away and the neighborhood kids generally wait until they see one of us outside to ask about getting their football back from off our roof.

Almost never. High rise apartment building with a concierge. The maintenance staff is about it.

Once or twice a week. Usually the postie.

Fairly often, maybe 4-6 times a week. A neighbor might be popping by, kids doing fundraisers, far too many people wanting to sell me something or tell me that their gas/phone/cable/satellite provider is better than whatever I currently have, pollsters or folks looking for petition signatures.

It used to be a lot more when I still had kids at home, that’s kind of a relief.

Almost never. The house is sited up the back of a battleaxe block and is nearly invisible from the road. The driveway looks like it goes into a paddock. It took the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years to realise there was a house here, and after the unfriendly reception their three initial visits received, I’d be shocked if they come back.

Maybe every four or five days, on average - neighbors dropping by, kids offering to mow our lawn, nonprofit groups looking for signatures on petitions, Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses with literature, etc. We live on a relatively quiet street. Around election time, we have a lot more visitors.

Ours gets knocked maybe 2-3 times a month. It’s usually someone trying to sell meat, cable, etc or one of my friends giving me scrap metal. The Mormons come by every few months along with non profits asking for money. We always answer the door if we’re home.

I teach some classes out of my house, so I get that. The neighborhood kids mostly yell through the window so they usually don’t knock.

Apparently the Mormon church has realized that most people don’t answer their doors during the day so “tracting” door-to-door isn’t happening as much as it used to.