Jersey City, New Jersey Airbnb Market Data 2026

Thinking about an Airbnb in Jersey City, New Jersey, and wondering what one earns and whether the city will even let you run it? When I cut BNBCalc's listing data at the Jersey City line, the typical listing there took in $40,160 over the past year, about 40% more than the $28,590 a typical listing made across the rest of the Newark market. That's the market BNBCalc files Jersey City under, since it doesn't track the city as a market of its own, and Jersey City holds about one in six of its listings (16.3%), every one of them in Hudson County.

The money only matters if your building qualifies, though. Jersey City grants a short-term rental permit only to an owner who lives on the property as a principal residence, it caps whole-home rentals of the unit you live in at 60 nights a year, and a June 2025 amendment capped everyone at two permits. So an investor planning to buy a condo and rent it out full time without moving in is, unfortunately, out of luck here, while an owner who lives in a two- to four-unit house can rent out a unit they don't occupy.

I'll start with what Jersey City listings earn by size and ZIP code, then get to the metro-wide trends, the seasons and the amenities, and finish with the permit rules and what to check on any address before you buy.

How Much Do Jersey City Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

By my count, the median Jersey City listing brought in $40,160 over the past year, charging a median $351 a night, with 34% of its nights booked. Outside the city line, the Newark market's median listing made $28,590 at $260 a night with 33% booked, so nearly all of the city's edge comes from what guests pay per night rather than from a busier calendar. The gap holds at the top end too, where a listing at the city's 75th percentile earned $57,280 against $42,543 outside it.

One caution before you put weight on these figures: BNBCalc's listing data can't tell a permitted Jersey City listing from one running outside the rules. The typical listing here is booked about 125 nights a year, more than double the 60-night cap on an owner's own unit, so the city medians describe what guests pay across town, and a permitted host's own number has to come from the specific address.

These are my own medians, built from BNBCalc's listing data as of October 2026 and cut to the Census boundary of Jersey City. Broken down by size, they run from $24,385 for a studio to $65,454 for four bedrooms or more.

Bedrooms	Jersey City median revenue	Jersey City top quarter	Rest of Newark market median	Jersey City median nightly rate	Jersey City nights booked
Studio	$24,385	$28,583	$21,410	$199	37%
1	$25,552	$33,232	$21,832	$232	35%
2	$37,712	$51,212	$28,404	$330	36%
3	$48,378	$64,703	$38,338	$456	31%
4+	$65,454	$85,092	$61,039	$594	34%

Trailing-year revenue per listing, BNBCalc listing data as of October 2026. "Jersey City" means listings inside the Census city boundary; "top quarter" is the 75th percentile; nights booked is the share of all 365 nights in the year.

Read each row from left to right and you'll see every size earns more inside the city, from 7% more for four-bedroom homes, the closest to the rest of the market, up to 33% more for two-bedrooms, with studios 14% ahead. The studio row is the thinnest of the five, so I'd give it the least weight. Three-bedrooms also make up a bigger slice of what's listed here (35% of the city's listings against 20% elsewhere), which I think lifts the city's overall median a little on top of the per-size edge.

Keep in mind that this page's data panel reports the Newark market's own averages, and that market stretches from Hudson and Essex counties out to Princeton in Mercer County and north into Morris and Sussex counties, even reaching across the state line into New York. So its figures won't match these city medians, and neither will the Newark market page in BNBCalc Markets, which opens on typical earners. BNBCalc Markets also has a page under Jersey City's own name, and it shows the same Newark figures.

Who will you be pricing against? Hosts with more than one listing in the Newark market run a large share of the listings inside Jersey City, even though the city caps any one owner at two permits, and their listings earned a median $43,099 against $34,935 for hosts with a single listing. They charged a median $361 a night against $335 and booked a little more of the year (36% of nights against 33%), so treat their rates as the going price you'll compete with, and remember that the two-permit cap won't let you build a portfolio like theirs here. The city does let a property manager act as your agent, managing the listing and booking reservations, and if that's the help you want, our list of Airbnb property managers in Jersey City is a place to start, although the permit stays in your name, since the city only issues it to the owner.

Is the Jersey City Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

All those multi-listing hosts raise the obvious worry that the market's getting crowded, and unfortunately BNBCalc's data can't settle it yet. The trends cover the whole Newark market, not the city on its own, and over this period BNBCalc's data shows no clear direction in the number of active listings, which is the figure that would answer it.

Across the Newark market	October 2025 to September 2026, against a year earlier
Active listings	No clear direction
Occupancy	Down about 5%
Nightly rate	Up about 27%

Market-wide figures for the Newark market, October 2025 to September 2026 against October 2024 to September 2025. The changes are relative, meaning a percentage of the earlier year's figure, not percentage points.

I read the two rows that survive as metro guests paying a lot more per night while hosts filled a little less of their calendars, though June and July 2026 carried a good part of that rate increase, since those World Cup months brought the year's two highest rates. Falling occupancy is what you'd see if supply had grown, yet rising rates point the other way, and with no clear direction in listings I can't tell you which force won. Inside the city, listings booked a slightly larger share of the year than the rest of the market (34% against 33%), so Jersey City isn't lagging the metro on demand.

The way I read the city's rules, they also work as a brake on new competition. Every new Jersey City listing needs an owner who lives on the property, and nobody can stack up more than two permits, so a developer can't turn a new rental tower into a block of short-term rentals. What I'd track instead is how full a handful of listings like yours, close to your address, stay from one season to the next, since I think a quarter's worth of their bookings will say more about your corner of the city than any metro-wide trend.

When Is Jersey City's Peak Airbnb Season?

Seasons are another metro-wide reading, so this month-by-month table covers the whole Newark market and not Jersey City alone.

Month (Newark market)	Occupancy of open nights	Nightly rate
October 2025	44%	$248
November 2025	37%	$240
December 2025	46%	$290
January 2026	25%	$205
February 2026	24%	$191
March 2026	30%	$213
April 2026	36%	$238
May 2026	41%	$264
June 2026	44%	$372
July 2026	42%	$367
August 2026	40%	$274
September 2026	48%	$272

Newark market, all bedroom sizes, October 2025 to September 2026. Occupancy is the share of nights hosts left open that got booked.

One thing I should explain before you compare this table with the earnings section: these monthly occupancy figures count booked nights against only the nights hosts left open, while the city medians earlier count them against all 365 nights of the year, so most months run higher than the 34% city median, and only the winter months from January to March fall below it.

Across the metro, January and February are the trough, with about a quarter of open nights booked at $191 to $205 a night. From there the Newark market fills steadily through spring, holds in the 40s through summer and early fall, and gets a holiday lift in December, when rates reached $290. September filled about twice the share of open nights that February did (48% against 24%).

Metro-wide rates swung much harder than occupancy did, since June and July ran $372 and $367 a night, almost double February's $191, with June's rate about 41% above May's and 36% above August's. My guess is the World Cup had a lot to do with that, since eight of its matches, including the July 19 final, were scheduled at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, so I wouldn't price a future June off this one.

Across the Newark market the week has its own rhythm too, with Saturday nights booking about 46% more often than Tuesdays and Fridays about 39% more, while Saturday's rate runs about 16% above Monday's, the cheapest night of the week. If you're weighing a property outside Jersey City, our Newark market-data post covers how the rest of the metro behaves.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Jersey City?

Back inside the city line, though, the ZIP code moved the typical listing's revenue less than I expected.

ZIP code (landmarks inside it)	Median revenue	Top quarter	Median nightly rate	Nights booked
07302 (Downtown: Paulus Hook, Hamilton Park, Van Vorst Park, Grove Street)	$42,087	$58,577	$345	38%
07310 (Newport, Harsimus Cove)	$40,899	$63,168	$394	29%
07306 (Journal Square, McGinley Square, Lincoln Park)	$40,213	$57,282	$344	36%
07307 (The Heights, Pershing Field)	$38,937	$62,446	$374	33%
07304 (Berry Lane Park, Lafayette Park)	$37,910	$55,648	$348	32%
07305 (Greenville, West Side Avenue, Liberty State Park)	$37,809	$46,114	$331	34%

Listings inside the Jersey City boundary grouped by Census ZIP code area, with landmarks placed by their map location and nights booked counted against all 365 nights; BNBCalc listing data as of October 2026.

All six land within about 11% of each other, from $37,809 in 07305 to $42,087 Downtown, and I'd call that a narrow spread for a city whose neighborhoods look so different from one another. Downtown's 07302 leads on how often listings book (38% of the year), Newport's 07310 charges the most per night but books the least, and the Heights' typical listing is a three-bedroom, with a top quarter starting at $62,446. Newport's row is the thinnest of the six, so I'd treat it as the least settled.

What that narrow spread means for you is that the building decides more than the neighborhood does. Because the permit only goes to an owner living on the property, the first thing I'd ask of any listing that tempts you is whether you could legally host in that building at all, and only then whether the ZIP code adds a few thousand dollars. For a street-by-street feel for each part of the city, our guide to the best Jersey City neighborhoods for an Airbnb covers what a ZIP code table can't.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Jersey City?

What you put inside the building matters too, but for a Jersey City host the data doesn't name a winner. Amenity values are another metro-wide figure, measured across the whole Newark market, and only one is published openly: lake access, tied to about 21% more revenue. My read is that it reflects lake towns at the market's far edge, like Lake Hopatcong, so it won't help you price a Jersey City condo.

The rest carry a value only inside BNBCalc Markets: bicycles, a pool, a barbecue and a sauna, plus a gym, an EV charger, a hot tub and a pet-friendly policy. Several of those, like welcoming pets, bicycles or a gym in a condo building, don't need a yard, and that's where I'd start if your place has none to offer.

The cleaning fee deserves a look too, since by my count the median Jersey City listing charges $85 per stay for a studio, $100 for a one-bedroom, $125 for a two-bedroom, $158 for a three-bedroom and $199 for four bedrooms or more. Guests pay that on top of the nightly rate each time they book, so if your calendar fills with short weekend stays, you'll collect it more often.

Is Airbnb Legal in Jersey City?

All of that assumes the city lets you host in the first place, and the short answer is yes if you own the property and live there, and no for almost anyone else. The rules sit in Chapter 255 of the Jersey City Municipal Code, which the City Council tightened on June 11, 2025, when it adopted Ordinance 25-059.

Before you rent or even advertise, the city's Division of Housing Preservation has to issue you a permit, and it only issues one to the owner who is also the property's principal resident. Under the ordinance, that means the place where you spend 275 days or more of each calendar year, you can only have one, and you'll need two items to prove it, such as a utility bill, tax records, or a state ID or vehicle registration. Tenants can't apply at all, and they can't sublet for 28 days or fewer either.

And even as an owner-occupant, you're limited to a few kinds of property:

1. A condo, co-op or homeowners-association unit, where the association's governing documents allow short-term rentals and your principal residence is inside that association.
2. A single-family home, or up to two rooms in one with four or more bedrooms.
3. A unit in a two-, three- or four-unit house you live in, where the permit covers a whole unit you don't occupy (a single room inside your own unit needs at least three bedrooms).

On top of that, renting out the entire unit you live in is capped at 60 nights per calendar year, and each night past that counts as a separate violation. The number of permits is capped too, since no one, whether a person or a company, can hold or control more than two of them. Short-term rentals also aren't allowed at all in multi-unit buildings where rent is set by HUD, a state agency, an agreement with the developer, or the city's rent control chapter.

A permit costs $500 and each yearly renewal $250, after a fee increase the City Council adopted in September 2026. The application also asks for $500,000 in liability insurance, a zoning determination letter from the city, a fire safety and property maintenance inspection, and proof you're clear of unpaid city taxes and court fines. Once you have the permit, its number has to appear in every listing, each day a listing runs without it counts as a separate violation, and don't forget that the guest whose name is on the booking contract must be over 21. Fines run up to $2,000 per violation and at least $100 per violation per day, and they can land on the owner, the property agent, the responsible party and the booking platform alike.

Taxes, meanwhile, ride on top of the guest's payment, so they never come out of your revenue. New Jersey's tax bulletin works out a Jersey City booking made through a platform like Airbnb or Vrbo at 13.625%: 6.625% state sales tax, a 1% state occupancy fee and the city's own 6% occupancy tax. That same bulletin also lists Jersey City for the 3% Meadowlands hotel assessment, which a 2018 state law stretched across the whole of each listed town, so the full charge would come to 16.625%. Either way the platform collects it, and the itemized taxes on a real booking will show which total your guests are paying. For the application itself, office by office and form by form, see our Jersey City short-term rental regulation guide.

How Does BNBCalc Track the Jersey City Airbnb Market?

Every metro trend and the whole month-by-month table here rest on BNBCalc's market data for the full Newark market, counting every listing. It's also what powers BNBCalc Markets, BNBCalc's place for studying a short-term rental market and stacking it up against others, while the Jersey City medians are my own count of that listing data inside the city boundary. The Markets page itself starts on its typical-earner view, so the defaults you'll see there won't match either set. Its Operators tab names every host or management company with two or more listings in the Newark market and shows how each one's listings price, fill and earn against the market average, and that's where I'd look to see whose rates you'll be competing with.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Jersey City Property?

The BNBCalc Calculator is built for one specific Jersey City address. Give it the address and it estimates the place's revenue, occupancy and nightly rate by comparing it with as many as 50 similar listings, then models your expenses, loan and returns on top. Before you get to a single address, though, it can help to see where the Newark market sits in the state, and BNBCalc's page that ranks New Jersey's Airbnb markets by gross yield shows exactly that.

If I were running the numbers on a Jersey City property, I'd make three checks before trusting any projection:

1. Eligibility before earnings. Make sure the place will be your home for 275 days or more each year, that the building is one of the permitted types, that a condo's bylaws allow short-term rentals, and that the rent isn't set by HUD, the state or rent control.
2. The 60-night ceiling on your own unit. If you plan to rent out the whole unit you live in, model 60 nights, not a full year. At the city's median $351 a night, 60 nights comes to about $21,060 in nightly revenue, a long way short of the $40,160 median listing. A unit you don't live in is measured differently: if it's a two-bedroom, the city's two-bedroom median of $37,712 is the line to beat, and $51,212 gets you into the top quarter.
3. Summer at a normal summer's rate. Price June and July against the months around them, because this year's World Cup rates may not come back.

And if the rules shut you out of Jersey City and you haven't settled on a market yet, BNBCalc Markets can line other markets up by gross yield before you go looking at addresses. Already hosting here? Hand your live listing to the Airbnb Listing Optimizer and it reads what your guests wrote and what the competition nearby offers, then tells you which fixes to tackle first, and with a two-permit ceiling, a better listing is the main way left to grow. Lenders and funds that screen addresses in bulk can skip the clicking altogether, since the BNBCalc API pipes the Calculator's revenue, comps and cash-flow numbers straight into their own software, billed by usage.

Is a Jersey City Airbnb a Good Investment in 2026?

A Jersey City Airbnb can be a good investment for an owner who lives in a two- to four-unit house and rents out a unit they don't occupy. If it's a two-bedroom, the city's two-bedroom median of $37,712 is the figure to beat, and $51,212 reaches the top quarter, while the unit you live in tops out near $21,060 at 60 nights and the median rate. Those medians cover every listing, permitted or not, and nobody can hold more than two permits, so think of it as a home that earns on the side. Your next step is to model that exact address in the BNBCalc Calculator.

Where a city rations permits the way Jersey City does, the building you're allowed to host in tends to matter more than the neighborhood around it, and here the six ZIP codes land within about 11% of each other.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an Airbnb make in Jersey City?

BNBCalc's listing data puts the median Jersey City listing at $40,160 in revenue for the trailing year as of October 2026, on a median $351 a night with 34% of nights booked. That median covers every listing in the city, permitted or not, so check what the city's permit rules allow your property to host first. Size moves the figure most, from $24,385 for a studio to $65,454 for four bedrooms or more. For one address, the BNBCalc Calculator sets it against as many as 50 similar listings and projects what it could earn.

Is Jersey City part of the Newark Airbnb market?

Yes. BNBCalc Markets tracks Jersey City inside its Newark market, and about one in six of that market's listings (16.3%) sit inside the Jersey City line, all of them in Hudson County. In BNBCalc's listing data, Jersey City's median listing earned $40,160 over the past year against $28,590 for the rest of the Newark market, so the city runs about 40% ahead of its own metro, across every listing BNBCalc measures, permitted or not. BNBCalc Markets has a page for the Newark market, but its default view shows typical earners, which is why its numbers won't match these all-listing ones.

Which bedroom count earns the most in Jersey City?

In BNBCalc's listing data, homes with four or more bedrooms earned the most, a median of $65,454 over the past year, followed by three-bedrooms at $48,378 and two-bedrooms at $37,712. The biggest edge over the rest of the Newark market belongs to two-bedrooms, which earned 33% more inside the city, while four-bedrooms earned 7% more. These medians include every listing, permitted or not, and the BNBCalc Calculator will show how a particular size performs at a particular address.

Which Jersey City ZIP code earns the most on Airbnb?

By BNBCalc's listing data, which counts every listing whether it's permitted or not, Downtown's 07302 has the highest median, $42,087 over the past year, and it also books the largest share of the year at 38% of nights. The six ZIP codes I could measure reliably all fall between $37,809 and $42,087, a spread of about 11%. BNBCalc Markets maps listings across the Newark market, and the BNBCalc Calculator will price a specific address against the comparable listings around it.

When do Jersey City Airbnbs charge the most?

BNBCalc's market data for the whole Newark market, counting every listing, puts June and July 2026 at the highest nightly rates, $372 and $367, almost double February's $191. Occupancy was lowest in January and February, when about a quarter of open nights were booked, and September filled 48% of open nights. Across the week, Saturdays book about 46% more often than Tuesdays.