Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Airbnb Market Data 2026

How much does an Oklahoma City Airbnb bring in, and are you even allowed to rent one out full time?

The two are the same question in this city, and the legal half settles it. Oklahoma City licenses short-term rentals under the name "home sharing", and on 16 February 2025 a rewritten ordinance took effect that caps a home share at ten nights in a calendar month unless the owner holds a special exception permit from the Board of Adjustment. That same board has to sign off before you can be licensed at all if the property isn't your primary residence, or if it sits in a Historic Preservation district. So buying a house in Oklahoma City proper just to list it nightly doesn't start with a form, it starts with a hearing, and that is worth settling while you can still walk away from the listing.

Now, the cap lands differently here than it would almost anywhere else, and the reason is in the booking data. It also stops at the city line, and only about 57% of the listings in BNBCalc's Oklahoma City market sit inside it. The market reaches Edmond and Norman, Moore, Midwest City and Del City, and out as far as Guthrie, Shawnee and Stillwater, each of which writes its own rulebook. So read every figure below as the metro's, with the city itself pulled out separately wherever a label marks it, and read the rules as Oklahoma City's alone.

How Much Do Oklahoma City Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

The middle listing across the metro took in $18,633 over its trailing twelve months, by my own count of every listing BNBCalc measures in this market. A quarter of them cleared $24,547 or better, and the top tenth cleared $34,326, so the spread between a middling year and a good one is narrower here than in most metros its size.

Size explains more of that than anything else. The middle one-bedroom brought in $11,836 and the middle two-bedroom $17,152, while the middle three-bedroom reached $20,792 and the middle four-plus-bedroom $32,313. That last step is the one worth staring at, because moving from three bedrooms to four adds about half again to the middle result, which is a far bigger jump than anything you get by moving across town. Studios sit at the bottom at $11,500, near enough to the one-bedroom median that the extra room isn't paying for itself at that end of the market.

What size won't tell you, though, is how any single house does, because inside every bedroom count the range runs wide enough that a well-run two-bedroom clears what a poorly run four-bedroom does, and the things separating them, meaning the street, the photos, the pricing and the turnover discipline, are all things you control. Purchase prices, meanwhile, have barely moved: across the past twelve months the market's home values came in about half a percent above where they started, so the buying side of the equation hasn't been running away from you.

Who else is bidding for these guests? A large share of this market is run by professional operators, so you'd be setting prices against outfits that already have cleaning crews and automated rates working at scale. That doesn't rule you out, though it does mean a hobbyist calendar gets punished quickly. If you want the current market-wide averages alongside what homes cost at each size, they sit on the Oklahoma City market page and they refresh as new months land.

Is the Oklahoma City Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

Mildly, and the honest version of the answer is that more hosts arrived this year and each one is filling slightly fewer nights than a host did last year.

Metric	Change
Active listings	+9%
Occupancy	−7%
Average nightly rate	+24%
Booking window	+10%
Purchase price	+0.5%

BNBCalc market data across every listing it tracks in the Oklahoma City market. Active listings, occupancy, nightly rate and booking window compare January through August 2026 with the same months of 2025, as relative changes, rounded. That shorter window is deliberate: this market's stored history changes definition in January 2025, so a full twelve-month baseline would compare two different rulers. Each measure is averaged on its own, which is why they don't multiply out into one another. Purchase price is a full twelve-month figure from a separate home-price series that follows homes rather than listings.

Nine percent more listings against seven percent lower occupancy is a crowding signal, yet it's a mild one, because the nightly rate went the other way by a wide margin. Hosts here have been charging considerably more per night while giving up a little of their calendar, which is what a market does when demand is holding up and supply is catching up to it rather than overwhelming it. The booking window stretched too, so guests are committing further ahead than they were, and a longer lead time usually means you can hold price rather than discount into the gap.

Then there's the thing that makes saturation an odd question in Oklahoma City. The middle listing in this market booked 111 nights over the past twelve months, which works out at a little over nine a month, and only 36.8% of listings booked more than 120 nights in the year. In other words, the typical calendar here is already close to the ten nights a month the ordinance allows, so what the cap actually removes from most hosts is the upside rather than the base. Keep that in mind when somebody tells you the rule killed the market.

If you want to see where this metro places against the rest of the state, the Oklahoma market rankings sort every market by gross yield, a measure that divides twelve months of booking income by the price of buying in. And if you want to settle saturation for a specific street rather than for the metro, watch how full comparable listings within a few blocks are running, and look again once another season has gone by.

When Is Oklahoma City's Peak Airbnb Season?

Late spring, and it isn't close. Because the cap resets every month, how the year is shaped counts for more here than any annual average.

Month	Occupancy	Avg nightly rate
Sep 2025	33%	$184
Oct 2025	36%	$190
Nov 2025	35%	$194
Dec 2025	31%	$180
Jan 2026	27%	$160
Feb 2026	26%	$154
Mar 2026	37%	$186
Apr 2026	37%	$195
May 2026	45%	$224
Jun 2026	43%	$209
Jul 2026	44%	$211
Aug 2026	37%	$192

BNBCalc market data, market-wide monthly figures for the twelve months to August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are measured separately, so reading down one column tells you nothing about the other.

May is the peak on both measures at once, at 45% occupancy and $224 a night, and February is the floor at 26% and $154. That's a nineteen-point swing in how full the market runs and a $70 swing in what it charges, inside the same twelve months. Put the cap next to that curve and the arithmetic gets interesting: a listing running at May's occupancy level, open for the whole month, fills roughly fourteen nights, which is four past the line, while the same listing in February fills about seven and never comes near it. So the cap costs a licensed home share almost nothing from November to February, and it costs it real money from March to July.

The week is just as lopsided. Saturday runs about a third busier than an average night here and Friday sits barely behind it, while Monday and Tuesday sit around a fifth below average, and the nightly rate follows the same pattern with Friday and Saturday roughly 40% above what a Tuesday fetches. If you're operating inside the ten-night cap, that pattern is your whole strategy, because ten nights is close to the number of Friday and Saturday nights in a month. Make sure to price the weekends as though they're the only nights you get, since for a capped listing they very nearly are.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Oklahoma City?

Weekend demand is spread across the metro rather than concentrated downtown, so the first thing to settle isn't the neighborhood, it's which city's rulebook you want to live under. About 57% of the market's listings fall inside Oklahoma City's own limits, and the rest are spread across more than a dozen separate municipalities, each with its own ordinance.

City	Median revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top quartile revenue
Bethany	$23,325	$184	33%	$37,239
The Village	$22,795	$205	33%	$25,471
Edmond	$20,642	$190	32%	$26,202
Warr Acres	$20,526	$337	26%	$49,930
Shawnee	$20,140	$189	31%	$27,018
Norman	$19,867	$208	29%	$26,387
Mustang	$19,834	$185	31%	$23,158
Moore	$19,833	$214	28%	$25,752
Oklahoma City	$17,699	$161	31%	$24,111
Stillwater	$17,587	$182	29%	$23,852
Guthrie	$17,152	$152	28%	$18,606
Midwest City	$17,099	$152	34%	$21,845
Del City	$15,327	$148	31%	$17,671

Medians of individual listings' own trailing twelve months, from BNBCalc market data pulled 24 September 2026. Municipalities are US Census place boundaries, and any place with fewer than ten measurable listings is left out because the figures move too much to trust. Top quartile revenue is the level a quarter of that city's listings beat.

Read that table too quickly and you'll conclude the suburbs beat the city, since the middle listing outside Oklahoma City's limits took in $19,470 against $17,709 inside them. Hold the size constant, though, and the gap mostly evaporates. The middle in-city two-bedroom brought in $16,819 and the middle suburban two-bedroom $17,769, while the middle three-bedroom came in at $20,927 inside the line and $20,609 outside it. What's really going on is that the typical listing inside Oklahoma City is a two-bedroom and the typical one outside is a three, so the city looks weaker because its housing stock on the platforms is smaller. At four-plus bedrooms the ranking flips outright: those homes inside the city limits post a median of $34,989 against $29,647 outside, an 18% premium and the widest gap at any bedroom count.

Inside Oklahoma City the picture splits by postal geography rather than by neighborhood, since the city publishes no official set of neighborhood boundaries to measure against.

ZIP code area	Median revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top quartile revenue
73159	$22,455	$186	31%	$25,952
73162	$22,371	$180	30%	$31,181
73108	$22,277	$185	32%	$25,938
73116	$21,126	$170	33%	$29,324
73117	$19,671	$201	32%	$34,455
73105	$19,209	$194	29%	$25,247
73114	$18,592	$145	35%	$20,344
73118	$17,884	$156	33%	$24,273
73112	$17,761	$169	31%	$22,949
73107	$17,073	$156	31%	$22,824
73104	$16,876	$142	32%	$20,075
73106	$16,594	$149	31%	$23,927
73103	$15,614	$130	34%	$20,651
73109	$13,766	$105	37%	$17,497
73120	$13,741	$119	31%	$27,995
73111	$13,728	$141	29%	$17,553
73102	$12,129	$124	25%	$23,647

The same listing medians, cut by 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas and limited to listings inside Oklahoma City's official city limits. Two different boundary systems, so never rank a row from this table against a row from the one above it. Areas with fewer than ten measurable listings are left out, as are the few ZIP areas that carry a handful of in-city addresses while lying mostly in Edmond or Yukon, and the thinnest of the rows that remain will move between refreshes.

The downtown core, 73102, sits at the bottom on median revenue and at the bottom on occupancy, yet its top quartile is higher than several areas that beat it on the median, which is the signature of a submarket where the good listings do well and the mediocre ones struggle. The northwest quadrant, 73162 and 73116, does the opposite and carries a solid middle with a much narrower spread above it, so the typical listing there sits closer to the good one. And two of the fullest calendars in the city belong to two of its weakest earners. 73109 fills 37% of its nights and 73103 fills 34%, yet against a citywide median rate of $161 they charge $105 and $130. Selling a lot of cheap nights is a different business from selling fewer expensive ones, and the revenue column is where the two finally meet. For the character of each area, what's walkable and who stays there, the Oklahoma City neighborhood guide covers ground a table can't.

One warning before you widen the search. Crossing a city line here changes the law entirely, not just the tax rate. Norman licenses short-term rentals annually under its own code article, lets its zoning ordinance decide which districts allow them at all, and makes any operator who wants more than four licenses go through a special use approval. Edmond's framework is a separate one again, and our Edmond guide is where to check it rather than assuming the Norman answer travels. Two addresses four miles apart can be playing completely different games, so check the jurisdiction before you fall for the house.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Oklahoma City?

A hot tub, ahead of everything else the model can see. BNBCalc's current amenity run for this market puts the revenue lift on a hot tub at about 20%, which is the single largest open figure here and a long way clear of the next tier.

Below it sit a group of amenities the model rates as genuinely worth something here, though it prints no figure for them: parking, bicycles, a gym, lake access, a sauna, an EV charger, a pool, internet, a TV and allowing pets. Those values are held behind BNBCalc Markets rather than printed on the public page, so I'll name them and leave the percentages where they are. What's worth taking from the list even without figures is how ordinary most of it is. Parking and internet aren't glamorous, and in a metro where guests drive to almost everything and the winter really bites, they're the sort of thing a listing loses bookings over rather than wins them with.

The model also sets aside anything close to universal in this market, reasoning that a feature everyone already offers can't tell a good listing apart from a poor one. That's the right call statistically, though it's a trap for a host reading it as a shopping list. Missing an expected fixture will still cost you bookings; it just won't show up as a lift when everyone else has it too.

Is Airbnb Legal in Oklahoma City?

Yes, with a Home Sharing License, and inside limits that are tighter than most people expect. The City Council rewrote both the licensing article and the zoning code on 17 December 2024 and the changes took effect on 16 February 2025, which means anything you read about Oklahoma City's rules written before that date is describing a system that no longer exists.

Here's what the current ordinance actually requires. Oklahoma City defines home sharing as a dwelling, or rooms in one, rented to a guest for up to 30 consecutive days, and the dwelling has to be the host's primary residence. You need the license before you list anything, and your city-issued license number has to appear on every advertisement, Airbnb and Vrbo listings included. The license runs a year and costs $120 for the year that began 1 July 2026, up from $24 before the rewrite. The city won't issue or renew it while the property owes delinquent hotel or lodging tax.

Two situations send you to the Board of Adjustment for a special exception before any license gets issued: the property isn't your primary residence, or it sits in a Historic Preservation district. A property in an HP district needs that approval whatever the circumstances, and the owner must live there and be on the premises during every rental. The exception also lifts the ten-nights-a-month ceiling, so it's what a host needs in order to run a calendar past ten nights in any month, whatever the property. As of September 2026 the city posts the special exception fee at $1,100, a steep climb from the $300 the city's own auditor cited in June 2025. Budget time as well as money, because the Board sits on Thursday afternoons roughly twice a month, and four months of its 2026 calendar carry only a single hearing.

Approval isn't a formality either. No more than one special exception is allowed per platted block, or 10% of the homes on that block if that's the bigger number, and once a block is full the city won't accept a new application for it. The Board can weigh a neighborhood's restrictive covenants against home sharing and the traffic a listing would add, and it can refuse applications and renewals for a year after an ordinance violation. Since December 2024 an approved exception runs for up to three years rather than the ten it used to. One carve-out survives: if you can prove to the Supervisor of Licenses that you were home sharing at that address before 15 January 2019, using old agreements, receipts or reviews, you're exempt from the special exception requirement, and that protection lapses if the use stops for two years.

The rest of the compliance list is short. Sixteen people is the ceiling on occupancy at any one time, whatever the bedroom count and short of a higher number written into a special exception, and you need one off-street parking space for every four guests, on the property rather than on the street. Working smoke detectors, a carbon monoxide detector and a fire extinguisher are required, on top of the building and fire codes the city has adopted, and renting more than four bedrooms triggers a building code compliance review.

Tax arrives in layers here, and all of them ride on the guest's total rather than eating into your revenue. Oklahoma City's hotel tax is 9.25%, raised from 5.5% after voters approved it on 27 August 2024 and effective from 1 October 2024, and it applies to home sharing where you rent two or more bedrooms. Airbnb and Vrbo both have collection agreements with the city and file the monthly reports for you; take bookings through any other channel and the filing falls to you, with the City Treasurer. On top of that sit Oklahoma's 4.5% state sales tax and Oklahoma City's own 4.125%, with Oklahoma County adding nothing of its own, and the Oklahoma lodging tax guide walks through who files what. One caution while you're checking: the city's own home sharing page still prints the old 5.5% hotel tax rate alongside the current license fees, so don't take that number as current.

Enforcement has changed as much as the rules did. The city hired a home share compliance vendor in 2025 to identify unlicensed listings, after its own auditor found that nobody was proactively looking for them and estimated that fewer than half the licenses issued in the first four years of the original 2019 ordinance were ever renewed. Getting convicted of a home sharing violation means a fine reaching $500, plus court costs and fees, with every day of it counting as a separate offense, and two Municipal Code convictions tied to one property inside two years are grounds to suspend or revoke the license outright. For the full filing sequence, the forms, the affidavits and the phone numbers, our Oklahoma City short-term rental regulation guide goes through it step by step.

Where Does BNBCalc Get Its Oklahoma City Airbnb Data?

That guide handles the paperwork, whereas every market figure above came out of BNBCalc Markets, which is the half of BNBCalc built for weighing up an entire market before you settle on one address inside it. Alongside the typical result it reports what a market's strongest listings earn, at each bedroom count, which is the pair of numbers I'd read together in a market this compressed. When the middle of the market and the top of it sit as close as they do here, that gap tells you how much room good operating actually buys you, and it's worth knowing before you underwrite on an optimistic year.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for an Oklahoma City Property?

Start from the size, since that's what moves the number most. Take the median for the bedroom count you're considering from the table further up this page, then adjust it for the two things the median can't know about your address.

The first is whether you're going to be capped. If the property will be your primary residence and you're happy running ten nights a month, take the seasonality curve and assume you fill your ten in the strong months and fall short of them from November through February. If you're buying it as a rental, your revenue case depends on a Board of Adjustment vote, and the honest way to model that is twice: once with the exception granted and once without it, because a block that's already at its 10% ceiling makes the second version the real one.

The second is the weekend. This market earns a disproportionate share of its nights on Friday and Saturday, so a property that shows well to weekend leisure guests, meaning parking, a hot tub and enough beds for a group, will beat the median for its size, and one that reads as a weekday business rental will trail it. Then subtract the costs the platform figures never include: cleaning after stays short enough to turn the property over several times a month, utilities through an Oklahoma summer, insurance, the license, and the special exception fee if you need one.

Run the same exercise on two or three addresses across different city limits before you commit to any of them. The Oklahoma City figure and the Edmond figure will look similar on a spreadsheet, and the rulebooks behind them aren't similar at all. BNBCalc's calculator will hold the financing side of that comparison for you once you've got the revenue estimates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a license to run an Airbnb in Oklahoma City?

Yes. Oklahoma City requires a Home Sharing License before you rent a dwelling or a room, and the number it issues you has to show on every listing and every ad. The license costs $120 a year for the year running from 1 July 2026 and is issued by the Development Services Department's licensing division. The city won't issue or renew it if the property owes delinquent hotel or lodging tax.

How many nights a month can you rent an Airbnb in Oklahoma City?

Ten, unless you hold a special exception permit from the Board of Adjustment. The ten-nights-a-month cap took effect on 16 February 2025 as part of the ordinance rewrite the City Council passed on 17 December 2024. A special exception is also required, separately, whenever the property isn't the host's primary residence or sits in a Historic Preservation district, and the city posts the application fee at $1,100 as of September 2026.

What taxes does an Oklahoma City Airbnb guest pay?

Three layers. Oklahoma City's hotel tax is 9.25%, which rose from 5.5% on 1 October 2024 after voters approved the increase, and it applies to home sharing rentals of two or more bedrooms. Oklahoma's state sales tax adds 4.5% and Oklahoma City's own sales tax adds 4.125%, with no separate Oklahoma County rate. Airbnb and Vrbo collect and remit the hotel tax under agreements with the city.

How much does a three-bedroom Airbnb make in Oklahoma City?

The middle three-bedroom listing across the Oklahoma City metro took in $20,792 over its trailing twelve months, from BNBCalc market data pulled in September 2026. Inside the city limits that figure is $20,927 and outside them it's $20,609, so the two sides are close at this size. Four-plus-bedroom homes are the bigger step, with a median of $32,313 across the metro.

Is Edmond or Norman better than Oklahoma City for a short-term rental?

On the median they look better, with Edmond at $20,642 and Norman at $19,867 against Oklahoma City's $17,699, though what you're mostly looking at there is a difference in house size, not in geography. The real difference is regulatory. Oklahoma City caps home sharing at ten nights a month unless you hold a special exception, while Norman runs an annual short-term rental license with no monthly ceiling of that kind, and Edmond works to a different framework again. Check the rulebook for the exact city before you compare the two revenue figures.

What is the busiest month for Airbnbs in Oklahoma City?

May, on both occupancy and nightly rate. The market ran at 45% occupancy and averaged $224 a night in May 2026, against 26% and $154 in February 2026, which is the low point of the same twelve months. June and July stay close behind May on occupancy, and the quiet stretch runs from December through February.

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Oklahoma City is a useful reminder that a rule which sounds fatal on paper can turn out to be roughly where a market was already trading, and that the only way to tell the difference is to count the nights. Ten a month reads like a ban until you notice the middle listing was booking nine. Whichever market you're looking at, find the number the rule is actually binding against before you decide the rule is the problem.