Fort Worth, Texas Airbnb Market Data 2026

What does a Fort Worth Airbnb earn, and is the house you're eyeing even allowed to take nightly guests? Going by BNBCalc market data, the typical listing inside the city limits brings in about $26,300 a year, charging a median $234 a night, as of October 2026. The legal half is the harder one, though, because Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, doesn't allow short-term rentals in any of its residential zoning districts, and if your house sits in one of them, no revenue figure changes that.

There's one more thing you'll want to know before you trust any Fort Worth number on BNBCalc. BNBCalc doesn't track Fort Worth as a market of its own. Instead, it treats the city as one piece of its Dallas market, and that market stretches from Parker County in the west to Smith County in the east, where Tyler sits. Only about 10% of that market's listings sit inside Fort Worth's city limits, while the city of Dallas holds roughly three times as many. So the data panel on this page describes the whole Dallas market, and every Fort Worth-only figure you'll read here comes from BNBCalc's listing data, which I cut to the listings inside the city line.

Those city-only numbers are where I'll start, splitting Fort Worth out from the rest of the market by home size and ZIP code. After it comes the part that decides whether any of it applies to your address: the zoning map, a $150 city registration, and hotel taxes that add 17% to a guest's bill.

How Much Do Fort Worth Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Inside Fort Worth's city limits, the median listing earned $26,300 a year in BNBCalc market data as of October 2026. It got there at a median nightly rate of $234 and a median occupancy of 31%, while the top quarter of listings cleared $35,697 or more. Set that beside everywhere else in the Dallas market and the middle barely moves, since the median listing outside the city earned $26,998.

	Fort Worth (inside city limits)	Rest of the Dallas market
Median annual revenue	$26,300	$26,998
Median nightly rate	$234	$259
Median occupancy	31%	30%
Top-quarter revenue (75th percentile)	$35,697	$41,592
Typical size (median bedrooms)	2	3

BNBCalc market data as of October 2026. Fort Worth means listings inside the Census boundary of Fort Worth city; every figure is a median or percentile, not an average.

The two medians land within $700 of each other, yet the top quarter of Fort Worth listings starts almost $5,900 below where the rest of the market's top quarter begins. That gap at the top is the more useful number if you're hoping to run a better-than-average listing, because it tells you where a strong year here starts.

So why do two places with nearly the same median sit so far apart at the top? Fort Worth's listings run smaller. Size for size, the city keeps pace with the rest of the market or beats it, right up until the four-bedroom mark.

Bedrooms	Fort Worth median revenue	Rest of market median revenue	Fort Worth nightly rate	Rest of market nightly rate	Fort Worth top quarter
Studio	$19,067	$17,255	$163	$148	$24,172
1	$17,834	$16,365	$164	$152	$24,532
2	$26,006	$22,263	$232	$212	$33,621
3	$31,393	$30,122	$287	$285	$39,890
4+	$39,968	$47,935	$387	$453	$56,396

Medians by bedroom count, BNBCalc market data as of October 2026. "Rest of market" is every Dallas-market listing outside Fort Worth's city limits.

Look at two-bedrooms first, since they're the clearest case: the median Fort Worth two-bedroom earned $26,006, about $3,700 more than a median two-bedroom elsewhere in the market. Four-plus-bedroom homes go the other way, trailing by about $8,000 ($39,968 against $47,935), largely because they charge about $66 less a night. And since 57% of Fort Worth's listings have one or two bedrooms, against 41% in the rest of the market, the city's overall median ends up a shade lower even though it wins most of the size-for-size comparisons.

The split matters when you read the figures in the data panel on this page, because those figures aren't Fort Worth's. They're the Dallas market's, bedroom by bedroom, and the Dallas market page in BNBCalc Markets gives you that same metro view, as does the Fort Worth page there, which carries the Dallas figures under the city's name. Treat them as the yardstick Fort Worth gets measured against.

The same goes for who you're competing with. Across the Dallas market, professional hosts run a large share of listings, so expect some of the units near yours to be priced and cleaned by people who do this at scale, and if you'd prefer to pay one of them to run yours, the Fort Worth property management guide covers the local options.

Is the Fort Worth Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

Is Fort Worth getting crowded, then? I wish I could hand you a firm answer, but on the figures available in October 2026, the data can't settle it yet. The Dallas market's listing count has no clear direction yet, so I'm not giving it one, and without a supply trend there's no fair way to say whether more hosts are piling in.

What did hold up is the demand side. Across the Dallas market, occupancy was roughly flat from October 2025 to September 2026, down about 2% on the twelve months before that, while nightly rates averaged about 18% higher. Part of that rate rise comes from June and July 2026, when World Cup matches in Arlington pushed prices far above the rest of the year, so I wouldn't count on all of it holding.

Dallas market, all listings	October 2025 to September 2026, against October 2024 to September 2025
Occupancy	Roughly flat (down about 2%)
Average nightly rate	Up about 18%

BNBCalc market data, market-wide. Each change is relative, a percentage of the earlier figure rather than percentage points, and occupancy and nightly rate are averaged separately.

So for a host, that pairing means the average night got pricier without getting much harder to fill. It's a decent backdrop, even if it can't tell you how many new listings arrived alongside you.

What the city's own listings add is a level, not a trend. Fort Worth's median occupancy of 31% sits level with the 30% median across the rest of the market, so the city isn't running emptier than the metro around it. Those city figures describe the listings running today rather than how their number has changed, which means I can't tell you which way Fort Worth's own count is moving. What you can do is track how often the listings closest to yours get booked, checking again every few months, because if their bookings slide while their rates hold, that's crowding showing up before any headline figure catches it.

When Is Fort Worth's Peak Airbnb Season?

BNBCalc keeps its month-by-month series for the market as a whole, so the seasonal pattern I can show you belongs to the Dallas market, and the Dallas market-data guide tells the metro story in more depth. Fort Worth's own calendar may not match it month for month, but it's the closest measured guide there is.

Month	Occupancy	Average nightly rate
October 2025	37.7%	$248
November 2025	36.7%	$260
December 2025	34.7%	$253
January 2026	31.5%	$218
February 2026	30.6%	$213
March 2026	38.5%	$248
April 2026	38.9%	$241
May 2026	39.5%	$262
June 2026	42.6%	$379
July 2026	39.5%	$340
August 2026	34.2%	$250
September 2026	34.8%	$246

Dallas market, all listings, BNBCalc market data. Occupancy and nightly rate are averaged separately, so they won't multiply out to revenue.

If those months look busier than the 31% median from earlier, there's a reason: a listing's median occupancy divides its booked nights by all 365 days, so nights a host blocked or never opened pull it down, and it sits below the monthly market figures in most months.

Across the Dallas market, occupancy sat around 31% in January and February, while nightly rates dipped to $218 and $213. From March through July it held between about 38% and 43%, then eased back to about 34% to 35% in August and September.

Rates across the Dallas market tell the sharper story. June's average nightly rate of $379 was the highest of the twelve months, about 78% above February's $213, and July held at $340, while every other month landed between $213 and $262. Those were World Cup months: the stadium in Arlington, inside the Dallas market, hosted nine matches between June 14 and the July 14 semifinal, and that's the likeliest reason rates jumped. On their own, June and July lift this year's 12-month average rate by about 8%, so if you're pricing a Fort Worth listing, make sure the year's budget doesn't lean on a summer like that one.

The week has a season of its own, too. Across the Dallas market, Friday and Saturday nights fill about 28% and 34% above the average night, while Mondays and Tuesdays sit about 21% below it, and prices follow the same shape, with a Saturday running about 33% above a Tuesday. Since weekend demand lifts every listing in the market, weeknights are where one listing pulls away from another, and a weekday discount or a shorter minimum stay is worth testing early.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Fort Worth?

Before you look at a single ZIP code, check the zoning, because in Fort Worth it decides where you can buy at all. The city allows short-term rentals in its mixed-use districts and in most of its form-based, commercial and industrial districts, and in none of its residential ones, so the map that matters most is the zoning map rather than a revenue map.

Once you know which districts allow it, ZIP codes give you a rough read on where Fort Worth listings earn the most. Keep in mind that each row covers every measured listing in the part of that ZIP code inside the city limits, whatever its zoning, so a strong row tells you about demand rather than about what's legal there.

ZIP code	Where it sits	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top-quarter revenue	Typical bedrooms
76106	About 5 miles north of downtown	$35,971	$365	28%	$41,085	3 to 4
76164	About 2 miles northwest	$33,091	$321	29%	$43,554	3
76137	About 8 miles north	$31,662	$259	36%	$57,307	3
76244	About 12 miles north	$30,141	$268	32%	$37,400	3
76112	About 7 miles east	$29,390	$249	30%	$32,652	3
76120	About 9 miles east	$27,662	$233	30%	$33,795	3
76131	About 9 miles north	$27,538	$193	37%	$31,316	1
76179	About 12 miles northwest	$26,993	$266	34%	$38,255	3
76114	About 5 miles west	$26,806	$240	27%	$34,899	2 to 3
76107	About 3 miles west	$26,378	$230	31%	$36,921	2
76104	About 2 miles southeast	$26,209	$219	31%	$36,512	2
76109	About 5 miles southwest	$25,773	$210	29%	$33,018	2
76110	About 3 miles south	$24,254	$213	33%	$39,570	2
76102	Downtown	$24,226	$230	30%	$32,094	1
76111	About 3 miles northeast	$21,861	$206	32%	$27,333	3
76116	About 7 miles west	$19,133	$212	30%	$29,366	2
76133	About 7 miles south	$18,619	$201	30%	$32,289	3

BNBCalc market data as of October 2026, listings inside Fort Worth's city limits only, grouped by 2020 Census ZIP code areas. Distances run from the city's center point in BNBCalc's own data, which falls in 76102. ZIP codes too thin to measure reliably are left out, and the thinnest rows that remain can shift between data updates.

The four ZIP codes leading on median revenue, 76106, 76164, 76137 and 76244, all sit north of downtown, and in every one of them the typical listing has three or more bedrooms, so part of that lead is size. Closer in, 76107 to the west, 76104 to the southeast, 76110 to the south and 76102 downtown post medians between $24,226 and $26,378 on smaller homes, and downtown's typical listing is a one-bedroom.

So if those north-side medians tempt you, check the zoning before anything else, since a three-bedroom house in a residential district can't legally take nightly guests however well it would book. If I were starting from scratch, I'd look hardest at 76107 and 76104, which pair a typical two-bedroom (the size Fort Worth does best at) with a top quarter that clears $36,000, and at 76110, whose top quarter reaches $39,570 on the same size of home.

What it's like to host in each of those places is a different question, and the Fort Worth neighborhoods guide takes it neighborhood by neighborhood. The ZIP figures cover the numbers half of that decision.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Fort Worth?

Once you've found a home that can legally host, the amenities decide how hard it works. BNBCalc measures what an amenity adds to revenue across the whole Dallas market rather than city by city, so treat every figure in this section as a metro one.

A hot tub is the amenity whose value BNBCalc shows openly, and across all listings it's tied to about 19% more revenue market-wide. That figure pools every home size together, so the lift on a one-bedroom condo near downtown may look quite different from the lift on a four-bedroom house up north.

Pools, saunas, TVs, barbecue grills, pet-friendly listings, EV chargers and lake access carry measured values as well, but those figures are only visible inside BNBCalc Markets, so I've left those numbers where they live.

Cleaning fees are the other lever you control, and across the Dallas market only about four in ten listings charge one at all. The ones that do average about $144 a stay, from about $73 at one bedroom to about $225 at four or more. If you're running a bigger Fort Worth house, remember that guests compare the total, fee included, so a fee that size competes with your nightly rate for the same dollars.

Is Airbnb Legal in Fort Worth?

None of that matters, of course, if the address can't host at all, and in Fort Worth the zoning ordinance decides it. The city says short-term rentals are allowed in all mixed-use districts and in most form-based, commercial and industrial districts, and not in any of its residential districts. Those are the one-family districts whose codes start with A (A-5, A-7.5, A-10, A-21, A-43 and A-2.5A), AR one-family restricted, B two-family, R1 zero lot line and R2 townhouse cluster, the CR, C and D multifamily districts (low, medium and high density), and UR urban residential. The registration ordinance the City Council adopted in February 2023 says the same thing in its opening findings, where it notes that the zoning ordinance doesn't let property zoned residential be used for stays shorter than 30 days. So before anything else, look up the address's zoning district.

If the district allows it, you then register with the city before you rent the property or even advertise it. The first registration costs $150 and each annual renewal $100, filed online through the city's Localgov portal, and a registration runs out on the last day of the month a year after it was issued, so it doesn't follow the calendar. It can't be transferred to a buyer either, and every ad, on Airbnb or anywhere else, has to show the registration number.

Once you're registered, three rules shape what you can sell. Your guest count tops out at two per bedroom with two extra on top, up to an absolute maximum of 12 people counting children; you can host one booking group at a time; and someone local has to answer whenever guests are staying and be able to reach the house within an hour of a call from the city.

Unfortunately, the enforcement side is where small slips get expensive. A single citation under any part of the city code in the previous 12 months is grounds to revoke a registration, and after a revocation the city won't register that property again for a year. Fines run up to $500 an offense, or up to $2,000 for some zoning, fire-safety and sanitation offenses, and each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense.

Then there's hotel tax, and the guest pays it as its own line on the bill, separate from your nightly rate. Fort Worth levies 9%, plus a 2% venue tax for the convention center on every stay since August 1, 2024, for 11% between them, and Texas adds 6%, so a taxable Fort Worth stay carries 17% in hotel taxes. The city's own short-term rental page, stamped January 2024, still lists only the 9%, so don't let it set your rate. You're the one who collects the city's share from guests and files it, while the state's 6% is collected by any platform that has agreed to collect it for you and by you everywhere else, and the filing steps are laid out in our guide to Texas short-term rental taxes.

Remember, too, that every one of these rules ends at the city line. Nearly all of Fort Worth's listings sit in Tarrant County, but the other cities in the Dallas market, Arlington and Dallas among them, write their own rules, so a home a few streets past the boundary can answer to a different set entirely. The Fort Worth regulation guide has the full detail, from checking an address's zoning to the hotel tax filing calendar.

How Does BNBCalc Track the Fort Worth Airbnb Market?

Once that guide has you squared away on paperwork, it helps to know where each kind of number came from. The Dallas trends and the month-by-month season draw on every listing in BNBCalc's Dallas market data, and the Fort Worth medians come from those same listings trimmed to the city boundary, while the amenity values are the ones you'll find in BNBCalc Markets, a market research workspace inside BNBCalc for deciding which cities deserve your down payment. To keep tabs on those city numbers yourself, I'd lean on the comp set: you save the Fort Worth listings that look most like the home you're weighing, and BNBCalc averages their revenue, occupancy and nightly rate and lines them up against the whole market. That gives you the city benchmark a metro average can't, plus an easy way to recheck comparable listings' occupancy every few months.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Fort Worth Property?

The BNBCalc Calculator is the place to begin, since it does for one address what this article does for the whole city. Type in the Fort Worth property and it sets that home against as many as 50 comparable listings to project its revenue, occupancy and nightly rate, then runs your costs, your loan and your returns on top. Once a US address has at least four comps, the AI Underwriter will pick the nearest matches if you ask it to, and here it's worth glancing at the map before you accept them, because a comp a few miles away in Arlington or another neighboring city answers to a different city's rules.

Already hosting? Then the Airbnb Listing Optimizer is the more useful tool. Point it at your live Airbnb listing and it combs through your guest reviews, a hundred of them at most, sets the listing beside as many as fifty others close by, and ranks the fixes so you know where to start. If you lend on short-term rentals or invest at volume and feed address after address into your own software, the BNBCalc API skips the screen entirely. It's a REST API, billed on what you use, and it hands your system the analysis the Calculator would produce, with projected revenue, occupancy and nightly rate, the comps behind them and the cash flow.

If Fort Worth isn't settled yet, line it up against other Texas cities on BNBCalc's Texas markets ranked by gross yield before you commit to an address.

Once you have a projection, hold it up against three lines that are specific to Fort Worth:

• Zoning. If the address sits in any residential district, stop there, because the revenue figure no longer matters.
• Bedrooms. With guests capped at two per bedroom plus two, and at 12 in total, five bedrooms already reach the ceiling, so a sixth bedroom adds a room but never a guest.
• Size. A Fort Worth home with four or more bedrooms earned a median $39,968, about $8,000 less than the same size elsewhere in the Dallas market, so the big-house premium runs thinner here than metro figures suggest.

Is a Fort Worth Airbnb Worth It in 2026?

It can be, as long as the address clears Fort Worth's zoning check first. Inside the city limits, the median listing earned $26,300 a year in BNBCalc market data as of October 2026, close to the $26,998 median for everything else in the Dallas market, and homes under four bedrooms out-earned their counterparts elsewhere in the market. Once the zoning checks out, run that address through the BNBCalc Calculator to turn these city patterns into a projection for the home itself.

Around Fort Worth, a metro average is a fair read on how the region is doing and a poor guide to what one house will earn, since four-plus-bedroom homes elsewhere in the market run about $8,000 ahead of Fort Worth's, while the market's other two-bedrooms trail the city's by about $3,700. The narrower the comparison you make, the more the answer starts to look like your own address.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an Airbnb make in Fort Worth?

BNBCalc market data puts the median listing inside Fort Worth's city limits at about $26,300 a year as of October 2026. The median nightly rate there is $234, and the median occupancy is 31%. The top quarter of Fort Worth listings earns $35,697 or more. For one particular address, the BNBCalc Calculator works out what that home should earn by measuring it against up to 50 comparable listings.

Does BNBCalc track Fort Worth as its own market?

Not separately. BNBCalc Markets counts Fort Worth as part of its Dallas market, which runs from Parker County in the west to Smith County in the east, and about 10% of that market's listings sit inside Fort Worth's city limits. The market page and the data panel for Fort Worth describe the whole Dallas market, so city-only figures come from BNBCalc's listings trimmed to the city boundary, as in this guide, or from a comp set of Fort Worth listings.

What size Airbnb earns the most in Fort Worth?

In BNBCalc market data, median revenue inside Fort Worth climbs from $17,834 for a one-bedroom to $39,968 for four bedrooms or more, and studios do slightly better than one-bedrooms at $19,067. The city's strongest showing against the rest of the Dallas market is the two-bedroom, whose median of $26,006 beats other two-bedrooms in the market by about $3,700, while homes with four or more bedrooms trail by about $8,000.

What occupancy do Fort Worth Airbnbs get?

BNBCalc market data puts the median Fort Worth listing at 31% occupancy, level with the 30% median across the rest of the Dallas market. Across the whole Dallas market, occupancy ran about 31% in January and February 2026, between about 38% and 43% from March through July, and about 34% to 35% in August and September, with Friday and Saturday nights booking well above weeknights.

Which Fort Worth ZIP codes earn the most on Airbnb?

In BNBCalc's listing data for the area inside the city limits, 76106 and 76164, both north of downtown, lead on median revenue at $35,971 and $33,091, though their typical listing has three or more bedrooms. Among the central ZIP codes, 76107 and 76104 post medians of $26,378 and $26,209 on typical two-bedrooms. Before you compare a property with these medians, put its address into the BNBCalc Calculator.