Live data study · updated September 11, 2026
Short-Term Rental Hosts by City
44,078 registered hosts across 499 cities that publish an STR registry. Every host is a recurring turnover-clean account. Counted from the public record, not listings scraped from a booking site.
Registered STR hosts, by city
Cities under 50 records omitted. "With phone" = records where the registry or a public trace supplied an owner phone.
| # | City | Hosts | With phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | New Orleans, LA | 13,277 | 627 |
| 2. | Seattle, WA | 7,262 | 22 |
| 3. | San Diego, CA | 5,337 | 5,336 |
| 4. | Denver, CO | 3,036 | 0 |
| 5. | Scottsdale, AZ | 2,979 | 2,964 |
| 6. | Chicago, IL | 2,062 | 10 |
| 7. | Austin, TX | 1,971 | 6 |
| 8. | Bend, OR | 1,300 | 0 |
| 9. | Marin County, CA | 790 | 0 |
| 10. | Arlington, TX | 581 | 0 |
| 11. | Orlando, FL | 470 | 20 |
| 12. | Cambridge, MA | 400 | 0 |
| 13. | Albuquerque, NM | 294 | 0 |
| 14. | Sacramento, CA | 293 | 290 |
| 15. | Santa Barbara, CA | 254 | 0 |
| 16. | Las Vegas, NV | 244 | 241 |
| 17. | Norfolk, VA | 210 | 0 |
| 18. | Panama City Beach, FL | 159 | 45 |
| 19. | Kissimmee, FL | 144 | 48 |
| 20. | Detroit, MI | 143 | 0 |
| 21. | Lake George, NY | 103 | 87 |
| 22. | Eastsound, WA | 101 | 0 |
| 23. | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 94 | 22 |
| 24. | Davenport, FL | 91 | 23 |
| 25. | Miami, FL | 76 | 25 |
| 26. | Louisville, KY | 71 | 0 |
| 27. | Friday Harbor, WA | 68 | 0 |
| 28. | Cape Coral, FL | 62 | 15 |
| 29. | Bradenton, FL | 52 | 8 |
| 30. | Saint Augustine, FL | 51 | 21 |
Questions this page answers
Which US cities have the most registered short-term-rental hosts?
As of September 11, 2026, among the cities whose registries BellAveGo ingests: New Orleans, LA (13,277); Seattle, WA (7,262); San Diego, CA (5,337); Denver, CO (3,036); Scottsdale, AZ (2,979). Counts are registered hosts or permits, not listings; a city that does not require registration does not appear.
How many short-term-rental hosts are tracked in total?
44,078 host records across 499 cities on September 11, 2026. This is a coverage-limited count of cities with a public STR registry, not a national total.
Where does the data come from?
Municipal short-term-rental registries and permit datasets published on city open-data portals (for example New Orleans, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Scottsdale, Chicago, Austin, Bend and Cambridge). Each record is a registered host or permitted unit with an address; the registries refresh on their own schedules and we re-ingest them nightly.
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Methodology. BellAveGo ingests municipal short-term-rental registries and permit datasets nightly and keeps one record per registered host or permitted unit. Only cities with a public registry appear, so coverage is uneven and counts are floors, not market totals. Every figure reproduces against the city portal; email us for the exact dataset ids.