Hennepin County, Minnesota Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Hennepin County, Minnesota and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that the county itself isn't the thing standing in your way, because Hennepin County has never adopted a short-term rental ordinance, and its zoning authority doesn't reach inside the cities that make up almost all of it. The catch shows up the moment you look at your own address. Whether you can rent by the night here is settled at the city line, and the answer swings from a full licence in Minneapolis to a flat prohibition in Bloomington and Brooklyn Park, sometimes within a few blocks of each other.

There's a second layer underneath that, though, and it's the one most hosts never see coming. Minnesota licenses lodging through the Department of Health, Hennepin County holds that delegation for every city except six, and state law puts any place furnishing sleeping accommodations for periods of less than one week in the same bucket as a motel. So your ordinary three-bedroom house can end up needing a county health licence on top of whatever your city asks for. Then the assessor gets involved, because renting a non-homestead property by the night reclassifies it and raises the property tax bill.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly in 2026: which cities say yes and which say no, what Hennepin County's own lodging licence costs, the four separate taxes that stack on a nightly stay, the court ruling that voided one city's ban in March, and who to call when something doesn't add up. Every figure below comes from Hennepin County's own ordinances and fee schedules, Minnesota statute, or the cities' own pages, checked in July 2026, and where a source blocked me I've said so instead of guessing. Before you commit to anything, run the property through BNBCalc first, because in this county the legal answer and the profitable answer often sit in different suburbs.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Hennepin County, Minnesota?

That reclassification is a county decision, and it's a useful clue to how the whole system works here: the county touches your short-term rental through health licensing and property tax, while the city decides whether the rental gets to exist at all. Keeping those two apart explains most of the confusion in this market.

Start with the county's half, since it's the part almost nobody mentions. Hennepin County Ordinance 6, the Lodging Establishment ordinance, took effect on November 15, 2022 and adopts Minnesota Statutes chapters 145A, 157 and 327 along with Minnesota Rules 4625 by reference, carving out only the state's own fee schedule so the County Board can set its own. Section III is the operative sentence, and it's broader than you'd expect. It makes it "unlawful for any person to operate or permit the operation of a lodging establishment, regardless of whether a fee is charged for such use, unless the County has issued a valid license." The same section then adds that only a person who also complies with the ordinances of the city where the property sits is entitled to that licence, so the county licence never rescues you from a city prohibition.

Now the definitions, because they're where a house turns into a motel on paper. Under Minn. Stat. § 157.15, subd. 7, a "hotel or motel" is any building "where sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public and furnishing accommodations for periods of less than one week." The subdivision right after it covers stays of a week or more and only bites at five or more beds, so the nightly and weekend bookings that make up most of an Airbnb calendar land squarely in the hotel and motel definition.

One section later, Minn. Stat. § 157.16, subd. 1 requires an annual licence for everyone conducting a hotel, motel, lodging establishment, public pool or resort, and the Minnesota Department of Health says the same thing in plainer words on its lodging page: "If you rent rooms for periods of less than one week, your establishment will be licensed as a hotel or motel," listing vacation home rentals under exactly that heading.

Who issues that licence depends on your city. MDH's own state and local licensing contact list, updated February 4, 2026, puts Hennepin County Epidemiology and Environmental Health in charge of everything in the county including the airport, and then names the six exceptions: Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Edina, Minneapolis, Minnetonka and Richfield each run their own delegated programme. The county's own food, pools and lodging licences page lists the same six and gives you their inspection numbers.

So if your property is in Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Hopkins, Plymouth, Orono or any of the other cities, Environmental Health in Eden Prairie is your licensing authority, and if it's in one of those six, the city is.

The city half is where the real variation lives, and it isn't subtle. Do keep in mind, before you read any of it as a formality, that nothing in state law forces a Minnesota city to allow short-term rentals at all, which is why one suburb licenses them and the next one bans them.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Hennepin County

Given how much turns on the city, the first hour of research should go into your own address rather than into the county at all. Here's how a representative slice of Hennepin County sits in 2026, taken from each city's own pages.

City	Position in 2026	What it takes
Minneapolis	Allowed, licensed	Short-term rental licence for stays of 30 days or less; one STR besides your own home; 10 occupants
Plymouth	Allowed, licensed	Annual short-term rental dwelling licence, $150 or $225, plus mandatory training
Hopkins	Allowed with approval	Conditional use permit in any Neighborhood district; 6 adults; guest register
Minnetonka	Allowed, narrowing	Registration required, and from 2027 only homesteaded properties qualify
Wayzata	Closed for now	12-month emergency moratorium; no applications accepted or processed
Bloomington	Prohibited	Transient lodging under 30 days is barred citywide
Brooklyn Park	Prohibited	City states short-term rentals are not allowed

Unfortunately for anyone whose property sits in the last two rows, there's no business here and no fee that unlocks one. Bloomington's rental housing licensing page quotes its own Chapter 14 wording without softening it, because "No person is allowed to lease, license or agree to allow the use of a dwelling unit, or portion thereof, for transient lodging," and transient lodging there means occupancy of less than 30 consecutive calendar days, bed and breakfasts and vacation homes included. Brooklyn Park is just as blunt on its business licences page, where the city says that "Short-term rentals such as those found on AirBnB and Vrbo are currently not allowed in Brooklyn Park." Our Bloomington guide and Brooklyn Park guide each work through what's left in those two cities, and the honest answer in both is the 30-day-plus furnished market.

Where the door is open, the terms differ a lot.

Minneapolis, on its short-term rentals page, licenses any stay of 30 days or less, caps occupancy at 10, limits an owner to one short-term rental besides their own home, and applies that cap across LLCs so stacking entities buys you nothing. In a building of 20 or more units, only 10% can be short-term rentals, though condos are exempt from that percentage.

Hopkins takes the zoning route instead, allowing short-term rentals in any Neighborhood district subject to a conditional use permit under Section 102-580(h), capping occupancy at six adults and their dependent children, requiring a guest register available to the city on request, and forbidding special events. Plymouth licenses annually, and our Plymouth guide covers that one in detail.

Minnetonka is the city to watch, because it's mid-change. The city's own engagement site records that at its June 8, 2026 meeting the council adopted a short-term rental ordinance requiring short-term rentals to be homesteaded and registered with the city, which is a polite way of saying investor-owned listings lose their place.

The April 27, 2026 staff report that started the process counted roughly 24 short-term rental properties in the whole city from its rental registration, proposed a three-year licence with an inspection at application and renewal, a management plan and in-unit posting, and set the deadline plainly in its timeline: January 1, 2027, short-term rentals required to be licensed and inspected. If you own a non-homesteaded Minnetonka rental today, that date is the one to circle.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Hennepin County

Whichever city you land in, then, the county licence sits underneath the city's rules rather than instead of them, and it comes with its own money and its own calendar. Hennepin County's 2026 food, beverage and lodging licence fee schedule prices a small lodging facility, meaning 10 units or fewer, at a $193 base fee plus $16 per room. A large facility of more than 10 units pays $306 plus $10 per room.

Licences under that schedule run from February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027, so a licence bought in November is still a licence that expires at the end of January.

Hennepin County Ordinance 1 supplies the licensing procedure wherever another county ordinance is silent, and two of its rules are worth knowing before you apply rather than after. Fees aren't prorated and aren't refunded, whatever happens to the application. And renewing late gets expensive fast: a 25% penalty at one to seven days late, 50% at eight to thirty days, and past thirty days "the activity for which a license is required shall cease," with the owner required to appear in person before the County Board before any new licence is even considered. Make sure you diarise the January 31 renewal, because that last one isn't a fine so much as a shutdown.

Inspection comes with the licence too, since Ordinance 6 has the health authority inspecting every lodging establishment as often as it deems necessary, on the risk-based schedule in Minn. Stat. § 157.20. Ordinance 1 then requires the licensee to allow free access for those inspections, and refusing that access is listed as grounds for revocation, suspension or denial.

If you're converting a house or remodelling for guests, Section VII adds a step people miss entirely: plans go to the health authority first, and the city "shall not issue a building permit" until those plans are approved. The county's own licences page also warns that plan review can take up to 30 days, and that a licence doesn't transfer when the property changes hands.

Then there's the city licence on top. Plymouth's short-term rental dwelling licence information sheet sets its annual fee at $150 for a single-family dwelling, townhouse or condominium and $225 for a two-family dwelling, renewable at the same price, with the licence required before you charge a single night's rent and mandatory training after the application is processed. Minneapolis runs its own tiered rental licence scheme instead.

Between the two layers, budget for the county fee, the city fee, an inspection, and the time it takes to satisfy both, and do remember that the county can't issue anything if your city doesn't permit the use in the first place.

Required Documents for Hennepin County Short-Term Rentals

Since none of those fees come back if the application fails, the paperwork is still worth assembling properly the first time. What you'll need splits along the same two lines as everything else in this county.

For the county lodging licence, Ordinance 1 asks for an application on the department's own form, stating the location of the proposed activity and whatever else Environmental Health requires. Add satisfactory evidence of any bond or insurance coverage filed with the department, and the fee paid in full, since nothing issues until it is. Converting or remodelling a house for guests adds a plan review package on top of that.

What a lodging plan review actually looks at is worth seeing before you start, even though the clearest published example comes from another county. MDH published a short-term rental plan review checklist for Beltrami County in March 2023, where the state runs the programme directly. It asks for a drawn layout with the dimensions of every sleeping room, egress windows meeting a 24 inch clear opening height and 20 inch width, and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in all sleeping rooms plus one in the great room.

Then come the building details: a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, ventilation in the bathrooms, septic compliance and a well log where the property isn't on municipal services, and nitrate and coliform water tests from a certified lab. Hennepin County runs its own review rather than that one, so treat this as the shape of the exercise instead of a checklist to submit. Do call Environmental Health before you spend money on any of it.

The city side varies by city, and the list below covers what the Hennepin cities I could read actually ask for:

• A management plan. Minneapolis requires one with the application, and Minnetonka's adopted ordinance follows the same pattern, addressing noise, trash and parking.
• Proof of insurance. Minneapolis wants the insurer's name and policy number on the form itself. No official page in this county states a minimum coverage amount.
• Neighbour notification. Minneapolis has applicants write to owners, renters and occupants within the building or within 50 feet of the property line.
• Posted material inside the unit. Expect the licence itself, emergency contact details and safety information, which is standard across Minneapolis, Plymouth and Minnetonka's new rules.
• A guest register. Hopkins requires one and can ask to see it at any time.
• Proof of homestead status. From January 1, 2027, Minnetonka registration turns on it.

One document you can't manufacture is a homestead declaration on a property you don't live in, and that single requirement is what will close the Minnetonka market to investors.

Hennepin County Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through the licensing and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to sort out, and four separate charges stack on a Hennepin County nightly stay before any city adds its own. The Minnesota Department of Revenue's local sales and use tax rate guide for the quarter beginning July 1, 2026 sets out the stack, and the arithmetic is the same for every address in the county.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Minnesota general sales tax	6.875%	MN Department of Revenue
Hennepin County sales tax	0.15%	MN Department of Revenue
Hennepin County transit sales tax	0.50%	MN Department of Revenue
Metro Area sales tax for housing	0.25%	MN Department of Revenue
Metro Area transportation sales tax	0.75%	MN Department of Revenue
Combined base rate	8.525%	all remitted to the state

That 8.525% is what most of the county pays. A handful of cities add a local sales tax on top of it. That takes Bloomington, Edina, Excelsior, Maple Grove, Minneapolis and Richfield to 9.025%, and Golden Valley to 9.775%. The rate guide is explicit that its table leaves out special local taxes, so lodging and entertainment charges sit outside it entirely.

Those special taxes are where the county's cities diverge again. Minneapolis is the sharpest example, and the state's own fact sheet on Minneapolis special local taxes spells it out: the 3% Minneapolis entertainment tax applies to "short-term lodging within the city limits," which brings a Minneapolis listing to 12.025% all in. The separate 3% Minneapolis lodging tax doesn't touch you, because that one only applies to hotels and motels with more than 50 rooms. Plymouth runs a straightforward 3% city lodging tax on licensed short-term rental properties instead, though I couldn't find any Hennepin County lodging tax layered on top of the sales taxes above, and none of the county pages I reached mentions one.

Platform collection, mind you, is the part I'd treat carefully. Airbnb's occupancy tax help article says it collects Minnesota's 6.875% state sales tax on reservations of 29 nights or shorter, plus "Local Sales and Special Taxes" of 0.5% to 3.0%, and it names Duluth specifically while saying nothing about Minneapolis, Hennepin County or the Metro Area taxes. As of July 2026 I couldn't confirm from any primary source whether that line item covers the full 1.65% of county and metro charges, let alone a city entertainment tax, so check your own payout statements line by line rather than assuming the platform has it handled.

Property tax is the layer that surprises people most, because it arrives long after the bookings do. Under Minn. Stat. § 273.13, subd. 25, non-homestead residential property rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, once it's been rented more than 14 days in the preceding year, is classified as short-term rental property in class 4b(1) at a 1.25% class rate. Homestead property in class 1a sits at 1.0% on the first $500,000 of market value.

So renting a second property by the night moves it into a higher class and a bigger bill, and the county assessor makes that call from actual use rather than from what your city allows. Watch out for that one in year two, because the reclassification follows last year's rental days.

Possible Write-Offs and Deductions

Because those costs are real and recurring, they're also the ones worth tracking from day one. The county lodging licence fee, the city licence fee, inspection and plan review costs, and the extra property tax that comes with a class 4b(1) reclassification are all ordinary costs of running the rental, and they belong in your model before you decide a suburb works. Renting part of your own home is the shape Minnetonka is pushing everyone towards, and it changes the arithmetic, because the deductions then have to be apportioned between personal and rental use. That's fiddlier in practice than it looks on a spreadsheet. Talk to an accountant who has handled a Minnesota short-term rental, since the homestead question interacts with both your income tax and your property tax.

Minnesota-Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Property classification is state law rather than county policy, and quite a lot of what governs your listing works the same way. Minnesota has no statute preempting city or county regulation of short-term rentals, no statewide registry, and no state short-term rental licence, so a Minnesota city keeps its full planning and zoning authority over this question. Our Minnesota statewide guide walks through that framework in full.

What the state does run, then, is the tax registration, because a host who regularly furnishes lodging directly to customers and takes payment directly has to register as a retailer with the Department of Revenue, while an accommodations intermediary such as Airbnb or Vrbo registers separately for the portion of the charge it collects. Where both are involved, both may need to register and pay tax on their own share of the charge, which is exactly why reading your payout statement matters. Local lodging taxes come from Minn. Stat. § 469.190, which lets a city impose up to 3% of gross receipts on lodging under 30 days and requires 95% of the proceeds to fund the local tourism bureau. Several larger Minnesota cities run higher rates under older special laws.

One more piece of state law deserves your attention this year, though, and it isn't a tax. The Municipal Planning Act, Minn. Stat. § 462.357, sets out how a city has to enact or amend a zoning ordinance, including published notice and a public hearing before the planning commission. That procedural requirement is what a Hennepin County judge used to void a city ban in March 2026, and it now shapes how every city in this county has to go about restricting short-term rentals. If you're comparing the metro as a whole, the Ramsey County guide covers the St. Paul side of the river and the Dakota County guide covers the southern suburbs.

Does Hennepin County Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

The short answer is that the county enforces its own lodging rules quietly and the cities enforce theirs loudly, and 2026 has been a loud year.

On the county side, the penalties are criminal rather than administrative. Ordinance 6 makes a violation a misdemeanor punishable under Ordinance 1, and Ordinance 1 adds a detail that changes the arithmetic: "A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues." A Minnesota misdemeanor carries up to 90 days and a fine of up to $1,000 under Minn. Stat. § 609.03, so an unlicensed operation running through a summer isn't looking at one charge. Alongside that sit the softer levers that usually bite first: denial, suspension or revocation of the licence, with an appeal heard by the County Board within 45 days of a written request.

The cities are where enforcement has actually made news, and the Wayzata case is the one every Hennepin County host should know. Wayzata had licensed short-term rentals since October 2024, with 16 licensed units on its own count, then adopted Ordinance 852 on September 23, 2025 to prohibit them outright. Owners sued.

On March 30, 2026, Hennepin County District Court Judge Joseph R. Klein held that Ordinance 852 "is a zoning ordinance," that Wayzata was required to follow the Municipal Planning Act procedures for enacting one, and that because it hadn't, the ordinance was void. The court didn't reach the takings claim or the nonconforming-use question, so the ruling turned on process rather than on whether a city may ever ban short-term rentals.

What happened next tells you how determined a city can be. On April 7, 2026, the council approved a 12-month emergency moratorium on a 4-1 vote, taking effect immediately because it was adopted as an emergency ordinance. Throughout that moratorium the city won't accept, issue or process any short-term rental application while it studies zoning amendments.

Minnetonka's staff report, written by the city's own housing coordinator and reviewed by its city attorney, records that the Wayzata decision "is now subject to appeal." So winning in district court bought the owners a pause rather than a settled right, and the city is redoing the work through zoning this time.

Be aware of the practical lesson buried in all of that. A current city web page tells you what a city thinks its rules are, and Wayzata's own short-term rental page still described a September 2025 first reading as upcoming when I checked in July 2026. Before you buy, read the council minutes and the ordinance history, not just the summary page.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Hennepin County

Given how quickly a city can change its mind, the order of these steps matters more than it looks. The early ones tell you whether the later ones are worth paying for.

1. Confirm your city allows the use at all. Call the city's planning or licensing office and ask specifically about rentals under 30 days. In Bloomington and Brooklyn Park the answer is no, and no county licence changes that.
2. Read the city's recent council agendas, not only its web page. Minnetonka moved from open to homestead-only in about ten weeks in 2026, and Wayzata went from licensing to prohibition to moratorium in seven months.
3. Work out who licenses lodging at your address. Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Edina, Minneapolis, Minnetonka and Richfield run their own programmes. Everywhere else in the county, it's Hennepin County Environmental Health on 612-543-5200.
4. Call Environmental Health before you renovate. Plan review comes before the building permit, and the county says it can take up to 30 days.
5. Apply for the city licence or permit. Budget $150 to $225 a year in Plymouth, a conditional use permit process in Hopkins, and a tiered rental licence in Minneapolis.
6. Apply for the county lodging licence. Small lodging facilities pay $193 plus $16 per room, and the licence year ends January 31 no matter when you buy it.
7. Register for sales tax and sort out the lodging tax. Register with the Department of Revenue, then check whether your city adds a lodging or entertainment tax on top of the 8.525% base.
8. Check your property tax classification. More than 14 rental days last year on a non-homestead property moves you to class 4b(1) at 1.25%.
9. Set the renewal reminders on day one. The county's late-renewal penalties run 25% then 50%, and past thirty days you have to stop operating.

Who to Contact in Hennepin County about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Working through those steps, you'll deal with three or four offices rather than one, and knowing which owns your question saves a lot of transferred calls.

The county lodging licence, inspections and plan review

Hennepin County Public Health, Epidemiology and Environmental Health licenses lodging everywhere in the county except the six cities below.

• Address: 479 Prairie Center Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
• Phone: 612-543-5200
• Fax: 612-334-1760
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• County main line: 612-348-3000, same hours

The six cities that license their own lodging

Hennepin County's licences page lists each of these with its own inspection number: Bloomington 952-563-8934, Brooklyn Park 763-493-8070, Edina 952-826-0370, Minneapolis 612-673-3000, Minnetonka 952-939-8200 and Richfield 612-861-9870.

Two of them are worth a more specific line, though. Minneapolis Inspections Services sits at 505 Fourth Ave. S., Room 510, Minneapolis, MN 55415, and takes short-term rental questions at 612-673-3000 or [email protected]. Bloomington's Environmental Health Division answers on 952-563-8934 or [email protected], from 1800 West Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington, MN 55431-3027.

Property tax, homestead and classification

Hennepin County Resident and Real Estate Services handles the homestead and classification questions behind that class 4b(1) rate.

• Phone: 612-348-3011
• Email: [email protected]

State licensing and state tax

The Minnesota Department of Health, Food, Pools and Lodging Services section, answers licensing-category questions on 651-201-4500 or 800-383-9808, and it's the right call if you want a straight answer on whether your property is a hotel or motel under chapter 157. Sales tax, the local lodging taxes and vendor registration belong to the Minnesota Department of Revenue, Sales and Use Tax Division, on 651-296-6181 or 800-657-3777.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Hennepin County on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers get a lot of use lately, which tells you something about the mood. What follows is my read of the recurring themes rather than any kind of survey, so do weigh it accordingly, and note that the only host commentary I could actually read in full was the public comment record on Minnetonka's own engagement site.

• Nobody argues about the county any more, only about the city. The practical advice that circulates among Twin Cities hosts is to check the municipal code before the listing photos, and it's correct. Two properties eight minutes apart can sit on opposite sides of a prohibition.
• The homestead line is the fault line. Reading Minnetonka's comment record, residents supporting the ordinance framed investor-owned listings as a housing-supply problem, while owners opposing it argued they'd bought under different rules and offered alternatives like local contact requirements, occupancy caps by home size and grandfathering for compliant operators. The council went with homestead-only anyway.
• Small numbers, loud politics. Minnetonka's staff counted about 24 short-term rental properties citywide before regulating them. That gap between the scale of the activity and the intensity of the debate is worth understanding before you assume a quiet suburb will stay permissive.
• Owners here litigate. The Wayzata property owners organised and won in district court, and the market noticed. What they won was a procedural ruling, though, and the city responded with a moratorium and a fresh zoning process, which is a reminder that a court win rarely ends the conversation.

Take that last point seriously if you're modelling a Hennepin County purchase. The risk to price here isn't a fine, it's the possibility that your city rewrites the use of your property between offer and closing. If you're weighing suburbs against each other, or against markets elsewhere in the state, the Minnesota market data is worth pulling alongside the ordinance before you decide.

Regulation in a county like this one moves faster than most investment theses do, and it moves one city council at a time. The owners who come out of it fine are the ones who treat the ordinance as a live document, read the agendas before the listing photos, and buy in places where they'd still be happy holding the property if the nightly rental disappeared tomorrow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Hennepin County, Minnesota in 2026?

In much of it, yes, but the answer belongs to your city rather than the county. Hennepin County has no short-term rental ordinance. Minneapolis and Plymouth license short-term rentals, Hopkins allows them with a conditional use permit, and Minnetonka will limit registration to homesteaded properties from January 1, 2027. Bloomington and Brooklyn Park prohibit rentals of under 30 days outright, and Wayzata is under a 12-month moratorium adopted in April 2026.

Does Hennepin County require a licence for a short-term rental?

Often, yes. Hennepin County Ordinance 6 makes it unlawful to operate a lodging establishment without a county licence, and Minnesota law classifies a place furnishing sleeping accommodations for periods of less than one week as a hotel or motel. Hennepin County Environmental Health licenses lodging in every city except Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Edina, Minneapolis, Minnetonka and Richfield, which run their own programmes. Call 612-543-5200 to confirm how your specific property is classified.

How much does a Hennepin County lodging licence cost?

The county's 2026 fee schedule charges a small lodging facility of 10 units or fewer a $193 base fee plus $16 per room. A large facility of more than 10 units pays $306 plus $10 per room. Those licences run from February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027 and are not prorated or refunded. Renewing late costs 25% extra at one to seven days and 50% at eight to thirty days.

What taxes apply to a short-term rental in Hennepin County?

The base combined sales tax rate is 8.525%: 6.875% state, 0.15% Hennepin County, 0.50% Hennepin County transit, and 1.00% for the two Metro Area taxes. Several cities add a local sales tax, which takes Minneapolis and others to 9.025% and Golden Valley to 9.775%. City lodging and entertainment taxes sit on top, such as Minneapolis's 3% entertainment tax on short-term lodging and Plymouth's 3% lodging tax.

Will renting by the night raise my property taxes in Minnesota?

It can, and the county assessor makes that call. Under Minn. Stat. § 273.13, subd. 25, a non-homestead property rented for periods of under 30 consecutive days, once rented more than 14 days in the preceding year, becomes short-term rental property in class 4b(1) at a 1.25% class rate. Homestead property in class 1a is taxed at 1.0% on the first $500,000 of market value, so the switch is a real annual cost.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.