Mississauga, Ontario Airbnb Market Data 2026

Is a Mississauga Airbnb worth the trouble, and is hosting one legal for you at all? The median short-term rental inside the city earned about C$21,900 over its last 12 months, according to BNBCalc's listing data as of October 2026. The legal answer matters more, though, because the City of Mississauga, in Ontario's Region of Peel, will only issue a short-term rental license for the home a host lives in, their principal residence. That means you can rent out the home you live in, but you can't buy a condo or a second house and run it as an Airbnb here.

Keep in mind what the earnings figures describe. They cover every Mississauga listing that's operating, licensed or not, because BNBCalc's data can't tell a licensed home from an unlicensed one, and the median listing was booked about 113 nights over the year. A homeowner who rents their place out only while they travel, or rents a spare part of it while they're home, will earn a fraction of those medians, which is the real test of whether the license and the paperwork are worth it. All of it is in Canadian dollars, written as C$, because that's the currency BNBCalc tracks Canadian markets in.

One more thing to know before the numbers: BNBCalc doesn't have a market called Mississauga. Instead, Mississauga sits inside a market BNBCalc calls Oakville. That market also takes in Brampton, the town of Oakville, Milton, Caledon and Halton Hills, yet Mississauga alone accounts for about 42% of its listings, which makes the city its biggest piece. The east side of the city, next to Etobicoke, falls in BNBCalc's Toronto market, and it holds about 14% of Mississauga's listings. So the city figures in this article combine both, while the trends and seasons come from the Oakville market as a whole, and I'll label those every time. The data panel next to this article shows that whole Oakville market as well, so its averages describe all six municipalities rather than Mississauga alone.

How Much Do Mississauga Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Inside Mississauga's city limits, the median listing earned C$21,872 over the year, charging a median C$208 a night and staying booked for 31.1% of the year, while the best-earning quarter of Mississauga listings took in C$34,013 or more. Outside the city, in the rest of the Oakville market, the median came to C$21,940, so a typical Mississauga listing earns roughly what the market's other towns do when you pool them.

That near-tie hides something, though, and you'll want to see it before you compare your own home with the city's median.

Bedrooms	Mississauga median revenue	Mississauga median nightly rate	Mississauga median occupancy	Mississauga top quarter	Rest of Oakville market, median revenue
All sizes	C$21,872	C$208	31.1%	C$34,013	C$21,940
Studio	C$12,913	C$115	29.9%	C$17,551	C$13,336
1 bedroom	C$16,816	C$153	30.9%	C$21,260	C$15,288
2 bedrooms	C$22,321	C$221	31.6%	C$32,234	C$19,172
3 bedrooms	C$31,804	C$280	30.3%	C$36,603	C$29,652
4+ bedrooms	C$51,595	C$482	30.0%	C$66,741	C$41,244

Medians of each listing's trailing 12 months from BNBCalc listing data as of October 2026, where "Mississauga" means every listing inside the city's census boundary in either BNBCalc market and "Rest of Oakville market" means everything in that market outside it.

Read across any row from one bedroom up and Mississauga earns more than the rest of the market, by about C$1,500 for a one-bedroom and by roughly C$10,400 for a home with four bedrooms or more. Studios are the one exception, but they're thin enough inside the city that I wouldn't lean on that row. So how does a city that wins at every size end up tied overall?

The answer is the mix of homes. More than a third of Mississauga's listings are one-bedrooms, while only about one in eight has four bedrooms or more, against roughly a quarter everywhere else in the Oakville market. A city full of smaller units drags its own median down, even though each size, taken alone, out-earns its match outside the city.

The town of Oakville sits at the other end. Its listings had a median of C$29,105, about C$7,200 more than Mississauga's, which is roughly a third higher, and its nightly rates run higher too. Keep in mind that Oakville is a separate town with its own by-laws, so check the Oakville short-term rental rules before you assume Mississauga's license covers a home across the boundary.

Nights matter as much as dollars here. The median Mississauga listing booked about 113 nights over its last year, and fewer than one in a hundred booked more than 180, which happens to be the most a licensed host can rent in a calendar year. In other words, the night cap rarely limits what a typical listing earns; the principal-residence rule decides who gets to earn it at all. If you want the market-wide averages and the bedroom breakdown BNBCalc publishes for the whole market, the Oakville market page in BNBCalc Markets carries them.

Is the Mississauga Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

No. Across the Oakville market, there were fewer active listings between October 2025 and September 2026 than in the year before that, while occupancy rose and nightly rates rose further. Supply going down while demand holds is the opposite of saturation.

Oakville market, market-wide	October 2025 to September 2026 vs October 2024 to September 2025
Active listings	Down
Occupancy	Up about 6%
Average nightly rate	Up about 29%

BNBCalc market data for the whole Oakville market rather than Mississauga alone, counting every listing. Each change is relative, a percentage of the earlier year's figure rather than percentage points.

Read across the rows and listings fell while occupancy and rates both rose, the pattern of a market with room left in it. I'd still be careful with that 29%, though. Toronto hosted six FIFA World Cup matches between June 12 and July 2, 2026, and June was the priciest month of the year, at C$284 a night, about a quarter above May. Even so, the tournament isn't the whole story, because over the 12 months that ended in April 2026, before a ball was kicked, rates had already climbed by a similar margin. The mix of homes matters too: the market lost a lot of one-bedrooms over the year and gained four-bedroom homes, and a bigger home charges more a night, so part of the jump comes from the mix changing. Inside the one-, two- and three-bedroom groups, rates still rose, just by less than the headline.

Inside the city, the picture matches. Mississauga's median occupancy of 31.1% sits right beside the 30.9% in the rest of the Oakville market, so the city's listings aren't fighting harder for guests than their neighbors are.

My guess is that supply keeps thinning for a while. The City says only about a third of the short-term rentals its staff had verified held a license as of April 2025, and the by-law lets it order a non-compliant listing taken down within 24 hours. Unfortunately, none of that predicts your own street, so look at how often homes like yours are getting booked, and look again each season.

When Is Mississauga's Peak Airbnb Season?

Summer, by a wide margin, so the occupancy you'll be rechecking swings hard across the year, which suits anyone planning to rent out their home while they're away on a summer trip. Across the Oakville market, August was the busiest month of the past year at 55.0% occupancy, more than twice February's 23.2%.

Month	Occupancy	Average nightly rate
October 2025	33.8%	C$204
November 2025	27.5%	C$177
December 2025	28.5%	C$187
January 2026	25.2%	C$175
February 2026	23.2%	C$174
March 2026	27.1%	C$184
April 2026	33.6%	C$200
May 2026	36.4%	C$226
June 2026	43.6%	C$284
July 2026	43.7%	C$279
August 2026	55.0%	C$275
September 2026	42.6%	C$236

BNBCalc market data, Oakville market-wide, October 2025 to September 2026.

Most of these months, April through October, sit above the 31.1% median from the earnings section, while November through March fall below it. The two aren't measured the same way: the city median treats every night of the year as a night a listing could've filled, so a month its host kept the calendar closed still drags it down, whereas the monthly numbers leave out the nights a host blocked and measure bookings against the open ones. Compare the months with each other rather than with that median.

Market-wide rates peaked a little earlier than occupancy, at C$284 a night in June, the month Toronto's World Cup matches began, about 63% above February's C$174. So if you can only spare a few weeks, June through August is where each night is worth the most, and a winter getaway from January to March is when your place would earn the least while you're gone.

Inside each week there's a pattern as well. Market-wide, Saturday nights book about a third more often than Mondays, while a Friday or Saturday night costs about 16% more than a Tuesday. If you're renting out part of your home while you live in it, weekends are where the money is.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Mississauga?

Weekends pay more all over the market, but where your home sits moves the number far more than the day of the week. Unfortunately for investors, though, you can't buy a home here just to run as an Airbnb. What you can do is buy the home you'll live in, knowing which parts of the city earn the most when that home is rented out part of the year.

Neighborhood	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top-quarter revenue
City Centre	C$29,473	C$253	31.5%	C$38,217
Lakeview	C$25,546	C$233	32.5%	C$35,829
East Credit	C$23,720	C$164	36.1%	C$28,614
Rathwood	C$23,608	C$211	29.5%	C$29,635
Clarkson-Lorne Park	C$23,204	C$223	25.3%	C$32,634
Hurontario	C$20,317	C$172	30.6%	C$34,521
Erindale	C$20,230	C$197	30.3%	C$27,422
Streetsville	C$20,117	C$219	25.2%	C$22,304
Meadowvale	C$19,898	C$180	27.9%	C$40,142
Applewood	C$19,767	C$241	31.6%	C$38,791
Erin Mills	C$19,326	C$186	32.6%	C$25,002
Malton	C$19,081	C$189	30.1%	C$26,535
Churchill Meadows	C$18,806	C$165	31.3%	C$32,544
Meadowvale Village	C$18,363	C$191	32.9%	C$41,417
Cooksville	C$17,379	C$221	25.4%	C$34,181
Lisgar	C$16,305	C$155	31.3%	C$31,965

Medians of each listing's trailing 12 months from BNBCalc listing data as of October 2026, covering every listing inside the city in either BNBCalc market; the neighborhoods are the City of Mississauga's own Official Plan character areas, merged into the names residents use, and any area too thin to measure reliably is left out.

City Centre, the downtown around Square One, leads by a clear margin, with a median about C$7,600 above the city's and roughly 1.8 times Lisgar's C$16,305 at the bottom. Read the last column alongside the first, though. Meadowvale and Meadowvale Village sit in the lower half on the median, yet their top quarter clears C$40,000, so the best listings in either one out-earn the typical City Centre listing by more than C$10,000 a year.

The east side behaves like its own pocket. Lakeview and Applewood sit entirely in BNBCalc's Toronto market, and most of Rathwood does too, and Lakeview ranks second in the city. That doesn't make the Toronto-market side richer overall, since its median of about C$20,500 sits a little below the rest of Mississauga's.

Port Credit is the name people expect to see here, and it's missing because it's too thin to measure reliably. The thinnest rows that did make it, Streetsville and Applewood among them, will move between data updates. If you'd like to see how Mississauga's market stacks up nationally, BNBCalc's ranking of Canadian Airbnb markets by annual revenue puts the Oakville market in the bottom third as of October 2026, well behind Toronto, though that gap says more about downtown Toronto than about Mississauga's east side.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Mississauga?

So much for where the home sits; what's inside it matters too, but this is one question the numbers can't answer for Mississauga yet. BNBCalc's Canadian market data doesn't put a reliable revenue value on any amenity, so I won't rank them. What BNBCalc's listing data can show is how common a feature is, and a hot tub turns up on about one in ten Mississauga listings against about 6% across the Oakville market.

Cleaning fees are another matter, though, because the data does cover them, and it shows only about two in five listings across the Oakville market charging one. Among those that do, the average runs from about C$51 for a one-bedroom up to about C$175 for four bedrooms or more. Since most hosts around you fold cleaning into the nightly rate, make sure that if you add a fee, your total for a short stay still compares well with theirs.

Is Airbnb Legal in Mississauga?

Yes, but only in your own home, and only with a license from the City, so sort that out before you price a single stay. Mississauga's Short Term Rental Accommodation Licensing By-law requires a license for anyone who operates or advertises a rental of 30 consecutive days or less, and it only allows one in a property that's the host's principal residence, meaning the home where you're ordinarily resident. The City's license page puts it plainly: it can't be issued for additional or investment properties.

You can rent the whole home while you're away, or part of it while you're living there. Beyond the residence rule, these limits apply:

• You get one license per person, and you can only operate or advertise one short-term rental at a time.
• Your home can be rented for 180 days a year at most, counted by calendar year.
• You'll need commercial general liability insurance of at least C$2,000,000 per occurrence, with the City named as an additional insured.
• Condo owners need proof that their condominium permits short-term rentals, and tenants need the owner's signed authorization.
• The rental has to pass a City inspection before the license is issued, and every listing and ad must show the license number.

The license costs C$283 a year as of October 2026, a fee the City says is subject to change, and it runs one year from the day it's issued. Operating without one can bring a fine of up to C$100,000 if the City prosecutes, with a C$500 minimum per conviction.

Taxes, on the other hand, land on the guest's bill. Mississauga's Municipal Accommodation Tax adds 6% to the price of every stay that runs 30 days in a row or fewer, and while the guest pays it, the by-law makes whoever provides the stay, hosts included, collect it and send it to the City every month. HST is 13% in Ontario, and the City notes that HST is also charged on the accommodation tax amount. If you're registered for GST/HST, you charge it yourself; if you aren't, the booking platform is required to charge and collect it on your stays.

There's a federal catch that makes the license matter even more. Since 2024, Canada's Income Tax Act denies a short-term rental's expense deductions for every day of the year it didn't meet the licensing rules its municipality sets. So an unlicensed Mississauga rental loses its deductions as well as risking the fine.

The City is enforcing harder now, too. It's putting C$4.75 million in federal funding toward more enforcement officers, who look for unlicensed listings and inspect rentals on site. How to apply, what to bring to the appointment and which City office answers which question are covered in our Mississauga short-term rental regulations guide.

Where Do These Mississauga Airbnb Numbers Come From?

Our regulations guide covers what you're allowed to do, while the earnings here all come from BNBCalc's own data. The yearly changes and the month-by-month table count every Oakville-market listing in that data, and the city and neighborhood medians are the same listing data cut to Mississauga's boundary. That data also powers BNBCalc Markets, a product BNBCalc built to put whole rental markets next to each other for comparison, although it opens each market on its average earners, so its figures won't match these line for line. It's still where I'd build a comp set: save the listings most like your own home, and you can follow how that group does against the Oakville market as a whole.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Mississauga Property?

A comp set shows how homes like yours are doing, but for a projection of your own home, the quickest first step is the BNBCalc Calculator, which works for Canadian addresses. Give it your home and it finds up to 50 comparable listings to forecast what you'd earn, how often you'd be booked and what you could charge, and then it runs the costs and returns, which means the C$283 license fee and your insurance premium land in the same picture as the income. Then hold the projection up against Mississauga's own figures:

1. Nights. Your plan can't rely on more than 180 booked nights a year. The median Mississauga listing booked about 113, so that cap leaves plenty of headroom for most homes.
2. Your size's median. A two-bedroom in Mississauga had a median of C$22,321 and a top quarter starting at C$32,234; a four-bedroom's median was C$51,595. Knowing which side of those lines your projection lands on tells you how much your listing has to do.
3. The condo letter. If you're in a condo, get the corporation's written permission before you spend anything on furniture or photos, because the City won't license the unit without it.

Hosts who already list their home a few weeks a year can get more from each of those 180 nights with the Airbnb Listing Optimizer, which checks a live listing against what guests have said in its reviews and what nearby listings offer, then tells you which changes to tackle first. And if you work for a lender or a property platform that prices homes across Ontario in bulk, the BNBCalc API sends the Calculator's property analysis straight into your own software, and you pay for what you use.

If you'd like help with cleaning and guest messages while you're away, our roundup of Mississauga property management companies compares the local options, though the license is issued to you alone and can't be transferred. Investors after a property that's only ever rented out will have to look past Mississauga. For them, BNBCalc Markets ranks Canadian markets by annual revenue, which makes it a sensible place to begin.

Is Mississauga a Good Place for an Airbnb in 2026?

For a homeowner, yes, as long as the home is yours to live in. BNBCalc's data puts the median Mississauga listing at about C$21,900 a year, though that median counts every operating listing and a home rented only while you're away will earn a slice of it. Across the Oakville market, listings fell while occupancy and nightly rates rose. For an investor, no, because the City won't license anything but a principal residence, and an unlicensed rental now loses its tax deductions too.

Your next step is a projection for your home in the BNBCalc Calculator, to see whether a few summer weeks cover the license, the insurance and the trouble.

The limit that looks strictest on paper isn't always the one that binds, and here a 180-night cap barely touches the typical listing while the residence rule decides everything.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an Airbnb make in Mississauga?

BNBCalc's October 2026 listing data shows the median Mississauga short-term rental earning about C$21,900 a year, charging a median C$208 a night and booked about 31% of the year. One in four listings in the city earned C$34,000 or more. Those figures count every operating listing, licensed or not, and Mississauga only licenses a host's own home, so a homeowner renting it out for part of the year should expect a fraction of the median. For a projection on a specific home, the BNBCalc Calculator takes the address and works out its likely earnings.

Which BNBCalc market covers Mississauga?

BNBCalc Markets tracks Mississauga as part of a market it titles Oakville, which also covers Brampton, the town of Oakville, Milton, Caledon and Halton Hills. About 42% of that market's listings sit inside Mississauga. The city's east side, around Lakeview and Applewood, falls in BNBCalc's Toronto market instead, which holds about 14% of Mississauga's listings, so the city figures in this article combine both markets.

Which Mississauga neighborhood earns the most on Airbnb?

BNBCalc's October 2026 listing data, which counts every operating listing, licensed or not, gives City Centre, the area around Square One, the highest median at about C$29,500 a year, followed by Lakeview at about C$25,500. Lisgar had the lowest median of the neighborhoods with enough listings to measure, at about C$16,300. Meadowvale Village had one of the lower medians but a top quarter above C$41,000, so the spread inside a neighborhood matters as much as its median.

When is the busiest time of year for Airbnb in Mississauga?

BNBCalc's market data for the whole Oakville market, which includes Mississauga, counts every listing and puts August as the busiest month of the past year, at 55.0% occupancy, and February as the quietest, at 23.2%. Nightly rates peaked in June at about C$284 and bottomed out in February at about C$174. Within a week, the busiest and best-paid nights are Fridays and Saturdays.

Are Airbnb rates going up in Mississauga?

Yes. BNBCalc market data shows the average nightly rate across the Oakville market ran about 29% higher from October 2025 to September 2026 than in the 12 months before, with occupancy about 6% higher and fewer active listings. Part of that rise reflects the market shifting toward bigger homes, but rates also rose within the one-, two- and three-bedroom groups, and they'd already climbed by a similar margin over the 12 months to April 2026.