Chandler, Arizona Airbnb Market Data 2026

Thinking about buying a house in Chandler to run on Airbnb? Before anything else, you probably want to know what a Chandler listing earns and whether Chandler allows one at all. The middle listing inside the city limits earned about $31,000 over the past year, and yes, you can run one, as long as you hold a city license.

Chandler sits in Maricopa County, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, and BNBCalc doesn't give it a separate market. Instead, it tracks Chandler as part of its Phoenix market, where my count of listings inside the city limits puts Chandler at about 4% of the measurable listings. So every Chandler figure in this article comes from that count, and every figure that covers the whole metro says so. If you want the full metro view, it's on the Phoenix market page in BNBCalc Markets.

The legal side is straightforward, because Arizona law won't let Chandler ban short-term rentals. Chandler does use the power it has, though: it requires a $250-a-year short-term rental license for every property, and you'll need to notify your neighbors before you apply. That's a cheap hurdle, so for most buyers the harder call is the house itself.

How Much Do Chandler Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

The median Chandler listing earned about $31,000 over the twelve months to early October 2026, while the median listing in the rest of the Phoenix market earned about $30,300. That's a gap of about 2%, which I'd call a draw.

Where Chandler differs is in how it gets there. Its median listing booked about 34% of the year's nights against 31% elsewhere in the market, which comes to about 10 more booked nights a year, while its median nightly rate ran a touch lower, $279 against $286. So Chandler hosts tend to sell more nights at slightly lower prices. Don't multiply those two gaps to get the revenue gap, though: each median is taken across all the listings on its own, so the middle listing on occupancy isn't the middle listing on rate or on revenue.

Size changes the picture, though, once you line up homes with the same number of bedrooms.

Bedrooms	Chandler median revenue	Rest of Phoenix market median	Chandler top-quartile revenue	Chandler median nightly rate	Chandler median occupancy
Studio	$15,707	$17,149	$17,245	$104	40%
1 bedroom	$16,398	$16,900	$21,034	$142	35%
2 bedrooms	$21,885	$22,239	$27,206	$187	35%
3 bedrooms	$34,414	$31,546	$45,284	$286	32%
4 or more bedrooms	$51,302	$53,370	$67,818	$442	32%

Annual revenue over the twelve months to early October 2026. "Chandler" means listings inside the city limits; "rest of Phoenix market" is every other measurable listing in BNBCalc's Phoenix market.

Read across a row and you're comparing homes of the same size. The three-bedroom is the one size where Chandler clearly comes out ahead, with a median about 9% above the rest of the market, which matters because three-bedrooms make up about a third of Chandler's listings, as many as homes with four or more bedrooms.

Bigger homes go the other way, though. Chandler's four-bedroom-plus median sits about 4% behind the rest of the market, and the gap widens at the top, where Chandler's top quarter starts at about $67,800 against about $82,000 for the same size elsewhere in the metro. If you're paying up for a big Chandler house hoping it'll earn like the metro's best large homes, keep in mind that Chandler's best large homes earn well below that mark.

One-bedrooms are less common here. Under one in ten Chandler listings is a one-bedroom, against about one in six across the rest of the market.

These medians cover every listing BNBCalc measures, from the weakest to the strongest, so they run below the "Typical-performing" revenue in the panel of Phoenix figures next to this article. That panel covers the whole Phoenix market and shows what a listing in its middle performance group could earn, which is a different question from what the middle listing did earn.

If you'd rather not run the place yourself, you'd be in good company, since professional hosts run a large share of listings across the Phoenix market. Chandler's short-term rental code doesn't require the owner to do the hosting, and this rundown of Chandler property management companies is one place to compare who's working the city.

Is the Chandler Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

No, at least not from new supply. Across the Phoenix market, the count of active listings barely moved over the past year, so no wave of fresh competition has arrived. BNBCalc measures supply at the metro level, which is why the table covers the whole market. I set October 2025 through September 2026 against the twelve months that came before it.

Phoenix market, metro-wide	Change over the year
Active listings	Down a fraction of a percent (essentially flat)
Occupancy	About 6% lower
Average nightly rate	About 18% higher

October 2025 to September 2026 against October 2024 to September 2025, across BNBCalc's Phoenix market. Each change is relative, a percentage of the earlier figure, not percentage points.

Occupancy is the caveat, because the average listing across the metro filled about 6% fewer of its nights, even as nightly rates climbed about 18%. I read that as hosts pushing prices up and living with a few more empty nights, not as a market drowning in listings, but it does mean you shouldn't count on rising occupancy to rescue an aggressive price.

My count of listings inside the city adds two things the metro table can't. Chandler is a small slice of this market, but its median listing books more nights than the rest of the metro does, so a Chandler host meets the metro's softer occupancy from a slightly stronger starting point. What would change my answer is the share of nights that homes like yours manage to fill. Every few months, pull up Chandler listings with your bedroom count and see how booked their calendars are; if that share keeps slipping while their prices hold, more listings are chasing the same guests.

For more on the wider metro, our Phoenix, Arizona market-data post covers the city at the center of it.

When Is Chandler's Peak Airbnb Season?

Seasons are something BNBCalc measures for the Phoenix market as one unit, not for Chandler on its own, so these figures cover the whole metro. This year, the season peaked in late winter, when February and March 2026 were the only months to book more than half their nights, and March came out on top, booking about 58% of its nights at $522 a night on average.

Month	Occupancy	Average nightly rate
October 2025	37%	$287
November 2025	40%	$332
December 2025	37%	$338
January 2026	41%	$349
February 2026	53%	$485
March 2026	58%	$522
April 2026	42%	$399
May 2026	35%	$325
June 2026	31%	$273
July 2026	31%	$258
August 2026	29%	$241
September 2026	32%	$260

Phoenix market, metro-wide, October 2025 to September 2026.

Most months in that table sit above the Chandler and rest-of-market medians in the earnings section, and that's down to what gets counted. Those medians measure a listing's booked nights against every night of the year, including nights the owner blocked off or never opened for booking, which pulls them lower. Summer is the exception, which tells you how slow it gets: June through September all fall below Chandler's 34%, and August drops under the rest of the market's 31% as well.

Set March against August, the slowest month, and the swing is hard to miss. August booked about 29% of its nights at $241, so March filled twice the share of nights at more than double the rate. Summer is the stretch you'll want to plan around, since June through September all booked under a third of their nights at roughly half of March's rate.

Within the week, Friday and Saturday nights across the metro book about 20% above the weekly average. Monday and Tuesday nights come in roughly a sixth under it. If your calendar has gaps, they'll most likely fall early in the week, and that's where a midweek discount earns its keep.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Chandler?

Inside the city, the median listing's earnings run about two to one from the strongest ZIP code to the weakest, and home size explains most of that spread.

ZIP code	Part of Chandler	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top-quartile revenue
85248	South, around Ocotillo	$49,171	$438	31%	$67,750
85286	South-central	$41,566	$342	33%	$50,046
85226	West, around Chandler Fashion Center	$34,718	$331	31%	$61,523
85224	Northwest	$33,579	$288	34%	$45,998
85249	Far southeast	$33,505	$286	27%	$68,688
85225	Downtown and north-central	$23,992	$206	36%	$36,273

Listings inside Chandler's city limits only, grouped by ZIP code over the twelve months to early October 2026, with each row covering only the part of that ZIP inside the city.

The median column shows what the middle listing in each ZIP made, and the top-quartile column shows what the stronger listings in that same ZIP cleared, so the distance between the two is roughly the room a sharper listing can win. The middle listing in 85248 has four bedrooms and the middle one in 85225 has two, which accounts for most of the gap between the top and bottom rows.

I'd look harder at three of these. Downtown's 85225 earns the least, yet at about 36% it books the most nights of any Chandler ZIP, which makes it the natural place to start if your budget runs to a two-bedroom or a condo. The far-southeast 85249 runs the other way: a mid-table median, but a top quarter starting at about $68,700, more than double that median, at the lowest occupancy in the city. That spread suggests results there depend heavily on the house and the operator, and it's the thinnest row in the table, so expect it to move between data updates. West Chandler's 85226 shows a similar, if smaller, split between a middling median and a strong top quarter.

These figures tell you what each ZIP earned, while our Chandler neighborhood guide for investors is the place for street-by-street judgment about where to buy.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Chandler?

Does a pool pay its way here? It's the one amenity BNBCalc shows openly for this market, and across the Phoenix market, listings with one are tied to about 12% more revenue than comparable listings without. If you take the median Chandler three-bedroom as a rough guide, 12% of its revenue comes to about $4,100 a year, and you can set that against what a pool costs you to heat, clean and insure.

BNBCalc also finds a revenue signal for a barbecue grill, bicycles, an EV charger, a hot tub, a sauna and a pet-friendly policy, but those values sit inside BNBCalc Markets, so I won't put numbers on them here. All of these are metro-wide figures for the Phoenix market, across every bedroom count, and none of them is specific to Chandler.

Before you set prices, look at cleaning fees too. As of October 2026, under half of the Phoenix market's listings add a cleaning fee, so check what your nearest competitors charge before you tack one on.

Is Airbnb Legal in Chandler?

Yes. Arizona's vacation rental statute, A.R.S. § 9-500.39, flatly bars cities and towns from outlawing short-term rentals, so Chandler can regulate you but can't keep you out. It also narrows what a city can demand from you, and it won't let a city charge more than $250 for a license, or the cost of issuing one if that's lower.

Chandler charges that full $250, both for a new short-term rental license and for each yearly renewal, according to the city's fee schedule effective March 2, 2026. City Council rewrote the city code's chapter on short-term rentals with Ordinance No. 5048, adopted on April 13, 2023, which is why every location now needs its own license. Each license expires on June 30, with renewal fees due by the last business day in June, and if you start partway through the year, the first fee is prorated by quarter.

Before you can finish the application, you have to notify the homes beside, behind and across the street from your rental, diagonals included, then list them in the application and attest that you did it. Once you're running, your contact details and your emergency contact's have to be posted on an inside wall within three feet of the main entrance, along with a notice of the uses the code prohibits. Your city license number and your state tax license number also have to appear in every advertisement. If the city sends you written notice and you still haven't applied within 30 days, it can fine you up to $1,000 a month, and three verified violations at one property within 12 months let the city move to suspend its license for up to a year.

If the home you're eyeing has a casita or a guest house, one recent change matters. Chandler's December 2024 zoning update, Ordinance No. 5113, struck out the lines that had kept licensed short-term rentals out of guest houses and casitas (the code calls them guest quarters and accessory dwelling units). Arizona law still lets a city make the owner live on the property when a casita or other accessory unit got its final approval on or after September 14, 2024, so ask the city's Tax & License division how it treats your unit before you count on that income.

Then there's lodging tax. It's added to the guest's total when they book, so you don't subtract it from your revenue, but the rate depends on who took the booking. A stay you book directly carries 11.67%, the figure on Chandler's own tax page: the city's 4.40% plus 7.27% for the state and Maricopa County, all of which you report and pay under your state tax license, since the Arizona Department of Revenue collects the city's share as well. A stay booked through Airbnb carries 10.12% instead. Arizona taxes those bookings under its online lodging marketplace class, where the state and Maricopa County share is 5.72% (per the department's rate tables effective October 1, 2026), and Chandler's 4.40% still applies on top. The platform pays both parts on those stays, because marketplaces have had to register with the state since 2019, and the department's factsheet has them report the state and county tax along with each city's hotel taxes. You'll still need your own state tax license, though, and you'll still have to file returns, even if every booking comes through a platform.

The city's application has more steps than fit here, and you'll find each of them laid out in our Chandler short-term rental regulation guide.

Where Do These Chandler Airbnb Numbers Come From?

The application is the city's to explain, and the numbers are mine: the metro figures in this article, from the trend table to the pool lift, come from the data behind BNBCalc Markets, BNBCalc's tool for sizing up and comparing whole rental markets, while the Chandler and ZIP medians come from my own count of listings inside the city limits. Pick a market there and set the bedroom count, and BNBCalc Markets shows which amenities are tied to higher revenue for homes of that size, wherever there are enough of them to measure. Since Chandler's edge sits with its three-bedrooms, that's the size I'd check a pool against before paying to put one in.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Chandler Property?

The BNBCalc Calculator is the quickest way in: you type in the address and get a projection drawn from as many as 50 comparable listings near the house, followed by your costs, loan and returns. When a US house has at least four comps, the Calculator's AI Underwriter can choose which of them resemble it most closely.

With that number in hand, three Chandler figures help you read it:

• Set it beside the right size. The median Chandler three-bedroom earned about $34,400 and its top quarter started at about $45,300, so if your plan needs top-quarter income, you'll want a clear reason the house outperforms three in four of its neighbors.
• Plan for the summer dip. Across the Phoenix market, August booked about half the share of nights March did, at less than half the rate, so make sure your budget can carry the slow months from June through September.
• Budget the license, not the lodging tax. The guest pays the lodging tax at booking, while the $250 license is a yearly cost you carry yourself.

If you haven't settled on Chandler yet, BNBCalc Markets is where you'd weigh the Phoenix market against others first, since BNBCalc files Chandler under Phoenix. For a statewide view, BNBCalc's ranking of Arizona markets by gross yield puts the Phoenix market in context.

Already hosting in Chandler and booking well under the city's 34% median? The Airbnb Listing Optimizer reads a live listing's guest reviews alongside nearby competitors and tells you which fixes to make first. And if you're a lender or a fund running Phoenix-area addresses by the dozen, the BNBCalc API hands the Calculator's property analysis to your own software, billed by usage.

Is Chandler a Good Place to Buy an Airbnb?

For the right house, yes. BNBCalc's data shows the median Chandler listing earning about $31,000 a year, within about 2% of the rest of the Phoenix market, while booking more nights at slightly lower rates. Three-bedrooms are where Chandler beats the metro, by about 9%, and the city's $250 license is a small cost of entry, although big homes are a weak spot, since Chandler's best large earners trail the metro's. The next step is to enter the exact address in the BNBCalc Calculator and compare what it projects with the Chandler median for that size and ZIP code.

Inside a big metro, a city's median can land almost exactly on the market's and still hide a threefold spread between its own homes, which makes the city line the smallest of the choices you'll make.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does BNBCalc have a separate Airbnb market for Chandler?

No. BNBCalc Markets tracks Chandler as part of its Phoenix market, and by my count of listings inside the city limits, Chandler holds about 4% of that market's measurable listings. Everything on the Phoenix page covers the whole metro, and the page opens on its typical earners, so expect its numbers to sit apart from the medians here. For Chandler-only figures, use the city medians from BNBCalc's listing data in this article, or put a specific address into the BNBCalc Calculator, which works from comparable listings around it.

How much does a three-bedroom Airbnb make in Chandler?

The BNBCalc Calculator will project a specific house, and as a benchmark, BNBCalc's listing data puts the median Chandler three-bedroom at about $34,400 over the twelve months to early October 2026. That's about 9% above the median three-bedroom in the rest of the Phoenix market. The top quarter of Chandler three-bedrooms earned about $45,300 or more over the same period, at a median occupancy of about 32%.

Which Chandler ZIP code earns the most on Airbnb?

BNBCalc's listing data, cut to Chandler's city limits, puts the part of 85248 around Ocotillo on top, with a median of about $49,200 over the twelve months to early October 2026. Its middle listing has four bedrooms, which explains much of the lead. Downtown's 85225 had the lowest median, about $24,000, but booked the highest share of nights of any Chandler ZIP, about 36%.

When do Chandler Airbnbs book the most nights?

BNBCalc tracks seasons for the whole Phoenix market rather than for Chandler alone, and across the metro the busiest stretch runs through February and March. In March 2026, listings across the metro filled about 58% of their nights and averaged $522 a night, the high point of the year. August 2026 was the low point, at about 29% of nights and $241, and June through September all booked under a third of their nights.

Do Chandler Airbnbs book more nights than the rest of the Phoenix area?

Yes, according to BNBCalc's listing data. The median Chandler listing booked about 34% of the year's nights over the twelve months to early October 2026, against about 31% for the median listing in the rest of the Phoenix market, or about 10 more booked nights a year. Its median nightly rate ran slightly lower, $279 against $286, so annual revenue ended up close to even.