Orlando, Florida Airbnb Market Data 2026

What does an Orlando Airbnb actually earn, and could you run one at the address you're looking at?

Well, Orlando answers the second question with a zoning map rather than a single rulebook, so I'd settle the address first. Inside the City of Orlando, renting out a whole house or condo by the night is barred from every residential district, and what's left open to a homeowner there is home sharing, where you or your tenant lives on site and is present for the visit and no more than half the home goes to guests. Cross the city line into unincorporated Orange County and it shifts again, since a single-family home can go for stays under 30 days in exactly one zoning district, or inside a planned development whose approved plan allows it. And with only about one listing in five here inside the city limits, and nearly two in three on county land outside any city at all, county rules are what most of this market answers to.

So Orlando's revenue figures don't mean much until you know which government your address answers to. I'm covering the Orlando market as BNBCalc draws it in central Florida: Orange County holds most of it, with the rest reaching west into Lake County, north into Seminole County and east to the Space Coast in Brevard, plus a small number of listings further out in Sumter and Volusia. Make sure to note where it stops, though. The market doesn't extend into Osceola or Polk County, so Kissimmee, Davenport and the vacation-home subdivisions south of the theme parks fall inside other BNBCalc markets, and none of the figures here describe them. Across the listings it does cover, average nightly rates climbed about 28% over the latest year while occupancy edged down about 3%.

How Much Do Orlando Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

The middle listing in this market took in $27,023 across the trailing twelve months, charging a median $241 a night and booking 33% of its nights, while it took $40,350 to make the top quarter. Those are medians from BNBCalc's listing data, so they sit well below the market-wide average BNBCalc also publishes, since a few very high earners can drag an average up without doing much to the middle.

Split the market at the city line and that middle barely changes, $25,946 inside the City of Orlando's limits against $27,216 outside them. The top quarter is where the line shows, though, because inside the city it starts at $72,992, nearly twice the $38,706 it takes outside, and that's down to one resort corridor along International Drive holding over half the city's listings.

So a four-bedroom here isn't one product. In Florida Center, that International Drive corridor, and in Tangelo Park, an unincorporated pocket near the convention center, the typical listing has four bedrooms and charges a median $633 and $631 a night, which comes to about 2.6 times the market's $241.

Gross yield tells a calmer story. Whether you buy one bedroom or four-plus, the typical yield barely shifts, so no size is obviously buying you a better return against the purchase price. Studios are the exception, trailing well behind the rest, and unless you have a specific reason to want one, I'd leave that tier alone here.

Who else is bidding for the same guest, then? A large share of what's listed belongs to professional hosts, and the operators with the biggest portfolios turn out to be vacation-home managers rather than people letting out a spare room, which tells you plenty about what a guest arriving here expects to walk into. If handling turnovers and guest messages yourself doesn't appeal, Orlando's property managers are rounded up here, though keep in mind a manager can't fix a zoning problem for you.

Whether you're buying the resort product or the ordinary one, the top quarter is a fair target, though I'd still build the purchase model on the median.

Is the Orlando Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

Aiming at the top quarter only makes sense if the market has room for another listing, and the plain answer this year is that the data can't settle it yet.

Metric	Year-over-year change
Average nightly rate	+28%
Occupancy	−3%
Purchase price	−1%

BNBCalc data across every listing BNBCalc measures in this market, for September 2025 to August 2026 set against September 2024 to August 2025, with every change rounded. Active supply and booking lead time are left out because the two ways of measuring this year disagree about which direction they moved, and revenue trends are left out because a change in how the underlying figures were loaded makes them unreliable over this window. Purchase price tracks home values rather than listings.

The listing count is what would decide it, and it won't hold still: shift the twelve months being compared and the count either grows a little or shrinks a little, so I won't call it on a swing that small. The pricing I'm confident about. Hosts took about 28% more per night than a year earlier while filling about 3% fewer nights, so guests kept paying up even as bookings slipped, though that can't tell you whether more hosts are now splitting those bookings, which is the part you actually need to know.

Rather than wait on a verdict for the whole market, keep in mind that the narrower question is the one that reaches your bank account. Track how full the homes like yours are, the ones with your bedroom count within a few miles of the address, and check again every couple of months. Once those homes start booking fewer nights at the same rates, that's your crowding signal, and it'll reach you well ahead of any market-wide average.

One more thing about that 28%. It's a big single-year move, and I wouldn't underwrite a second one, so if you're modeling a purchase here, hold next year's rates flat rather than counting on another climb.

When Is Orlando's Peak Airbnb Season?

Rates and occupancy don't move together across the year either, and in Orlando they pull noticeably apart.

Month	Occupancy	Avg nightly rate
Sep 2025	29%	$197
Oct 2025	36%	$218
Nov 2025	40%	$248
Dec 2025	42%	$264
Jan 2026	43%	$238
Feb 2026	49%	$254
Mar 2026	49%	$273
Apr 2026	46%	$274
May 2026	39%	$238
Jun 2026	40%	$295
Jul 2026	46%	$287
Aug 2026	31%	$228

BNBCalc market data across every listing in the market, one row per month for September 2025 through August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are averaged separately, so read each column on its own rather than multiplying them together. The months from May 2026 on were loaded separately from the ones before, so treat an occupancy gap of a few points across that line as noise.

Occupancy has two high points. February through April books 46% to 49% of nights, and July climbs back to 46%, with May and June sitting lower in between, at 39% and 40%. Rates keep a different calendar, peaking in June at $295 with July next at $287, while February averages $254 even as it books close to half its nights. That gap matters if you're pricing, since the spring months fill so well at rates below June's, and a pricing rule built for one season will leave money on the table in the other.

September and August are the thin months, the only two that don't book a third of their nights, at 29% and 31%, and September also carries the year's lowest average rate at $197. If you're going to take the place off the market for two weeks to redecorate or to use it yourself, that's the stretch where a gap in the calendar costs you the fewest bookings.

Across the days of the week, demand moves much further than price does. Saturday books 20% more nights than the average day, Friday 19% more, while Monday and Tuesday each run 14% behind, yet Friday and Saturday rates sit only 7% above the average. That's about three times as much swing in demand as in price, so the first thing I'd tune here is the weekend premium, pushing Friday and Saturday rates up, since guests are already booking those nights far harder than the price gap suggests.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Orlando?

Weekend pricing is something you can change any Tuesday afternoon, whereas you're stuck with the address from the moment you close, so it pays to be careful about where in this market you're actually buying.

About one listing in five sits inside the City of Orlando, and nearly two in three sit outside any incorporated city at all, on unincorporated county land. Those unincorporated pockets are where the whole-home vacation-rental business lives, and they answer to their county rather than to any city hall. The first table below follows the City of Orlando's own neighborhood map and the second covers the towns and Census places in the rest of the market; they're built on different boundaries, so compare within each table rather than between them.

Inside the City of Orlando

The city draws 125 official neighborhoods of its own, so I dropped every measurable listing inside the city into the one that contains it, and fourteen came back with enough behind them to rank.

Rank	Neighborhood	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Florida Center	$69,328	$633	33%	$94,270
2	Lake Davis/Greenwood	$27,364	$206	34%	$35,614
3	Colonialtown South	$23,651	$192	33%	$30,824
4	Lawsona/Fern Creek	$21,803	$194	35%	$30,074
5	Thornton Park	$20,928	$171	34%	$26,803
6	Colonialtown North	$20,720	$185	34%	$25,787
7	College Park	$19,818	$170	36%	$27,268
8	Wadeview Park	$19,317	$164	36%	$31,039
9	Florida Center North	$18,950	$159	34%	$22,869
10	Lake Eola Heights	$18,108	$153	37%	$23,097
11	South Eola	$16,626	$151	33%	$27,075
12	Central Business District	$15,791	$181	24%	$22,715
13	Ventura	$15,720	$147	29%	$18,144
14	Engelwood Park	$12,211	$103	35%	$40,150

BNBCalc 2026 listing data inside the City of Orlando's official neighborhood boundaries, trailing twelve months, where revenue, rate and occupancy are medians and the last column is the 75th percentile, the point at which a neighborhood's top quarter of listings begins. Each column is worked out separately, so they don't multiply together, and neighborhoods too thin to measure reliably are left out. These are medians, the middle listing in each place, and their occupancy runs below most months in the seasonality table, which averages across every listing, so compare these rows with each other rather than with that table.

One row doesn't belong with the others, and it's the row carrying the most weight. Florida Center runs along International Drive between the convention center and the Universal parks, it holds over half of the city's measurable listings on its own, its typical listing has four bedrooms rather than the one or two the rest of the city runs, and it charges a median $633 a night against $103 to $206 everywhere else. That isn't a neighborhood outperforming its neighbors so much as a resort corridor that happens to fall inside the city limits, and a whole unit let there by the night has to fit one of the city's commercial categories rather than the home-sharing registration a homeowner three miles away would file. It also means the "typical Orlando listing" most people have in mind, a one- or two-bedroom near downtown, is the minority of what the city actually has on the market.

Take Florida Center out and the rest of the city reads like a normal urban rental market, running from about $12,000 to about $27,000 in median revenue, with eleven of the thirteen remaining neighborhoods filling between 33% and 37% of their nights. Lake Davis/Greenwood leads that group and Colonialtown South follows it, both of them one-bedroom markets, one just south-east of downtown and the other just north-east of it. Lake Eola Heights tops the whole city on median occupancy at 37%, and it manages that on the lowest rate in the top ten, which is the trade you'd expect from a walkable downtown neighborhood. The Central Business District runs the other way, charging a respectable $181 and still filling under a quarter of its nights.

None of that tells you what it's like to live in these places, which matters a great deal when the rules say you have to, and for that side of it you'll want the best Orlando neighborhoods for Airbnb.

The Rest of the Orlando Market

Step back to the whole market, then, and where does the money sit? These are the twelve places holding the most listings anywhere in it, the city itself included, ranked by what the middle listing takes in.

Rank	City or area	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Tangelo Park	$76,970	$631	33%	$82,814
2	Four Corners	$31,358	$310	28%	$54,059
3	Merritt Island	$27,641	$249	32%	$30,752
4	Orlando	$26,088	$228	33%	$73,504
5	Cocoa	$22,875	$218	32%	$33,505
6	Mount Dora	$21,989	$227	29%	$29,261
7	Clermont	$20,257	$198	29%	$25,221
8	Titusville	$20,242	$186	32%	$27,043
9	Winter Garden	$19,815	$191	33%	$23,676
10	Oak Ridge	$17,170	$199	28%	$24,632
11	Leesburg	$15,144	$194	25%	$17,850
12	Sky Lake	$13,576	$102	38%	$21,406

BNBCalc 2026 listing data inside US Census place boundaries, trailing twelve months, for the twelve places holding the most listings in the market. Columns are medians apart from the 75th percentile, each worked out separately. The Orlando row uses the Census place boundary rather than the city's own, which is why it sits a little off the city-limits medians of $25,946 and $227 a night.

The top two rows are the same product sitting in two different counties. Tangelo Park is an unincorporated pocket of Orange County a couple of miles north-east of the convention center, while Four Corners is the Lake County side of the area where Orange, Lake, Osceola and Polk meet, out toward the Disney side, and only that Lake County side falls in this market. Their typical listings run four and five bedrooms and they charge $631 and $310 a night, so neither one is really competing with a two-bedroom near downtown. If the vacation home is what you came here for, those two rows are the market you'd be entering.

Careful with Tangelo Park, though. It's a small pocket carrying the biggest number in the table, so it'll move further between refreshes than the deep rows will, and most of the city's own neighborhoods rest on fewer listings still. Further down, Merritt Island, Cocoa and Titusville are the Space Coast, an hour east of Orlando and a different business again, while Mount Dora, Clermont, Winter Garden and Leesburg are the small towns and suburbs ringing the metro. Sky Lake is the useful contrast at the bottom: it posts the highest median occupancy of any place in the table, 38%, on the lowest median rate, $102, and still earns the least, a fair reminder that filling nights and earning money aren't the same thing.

The bigger difference between these rows, though, isn't what they earn. It's whether you'd be allowed to run a whole-home rental at all, and that changes at every city and county line you cross. Most of this market's listings sit on unincorporated county land, and plenty of addresses out there still say Orlando in the mailing address, so go by the county property appraiser's record rather than the envelope, and if it comes back as unincorporated Orange County, start with BNBCalc's guide to Orange County's rules.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Orlando?

Once the address is settled, a few things inside the property carry noticeably more revenue than the rest.

On the amenity model BNBCalc is running now, an EV charger scores about 19% more revenue market-wide, and it's the only market-wide percentage the public market page shows. That surprised me until I pulled the same model one bedroom count at a time, where the charger turns out to be a two-bedroom story, worth about 33% at two bedrooms against 11% at one.

Go up to the family-sized homes and something else leads, since for three-bedroom listings a barbecue is worth about 12% and for four-plus-bedroom homes about 22%. The amenity that leads at one end of this market, then, isn't the one that leads at the other, and if you're fitting out a big house near the parks, a barbecue is an inexpensive one to add.

A pool, a hot tub, a gym, a TV and allowing pets register in the model here too, and BNBCalc Markets carries their Orlando figures, which the public page leaves out. If you're weighing a pool, make sure to get its figure for your bedroom count before you commit, since it costs far more to add and run than a barbecue and the model gives each size its own answer. The model also sets a few household basics aside on purpose, on the reasoning that a guest treats them as given rather than as something you chose to add.

Cleaning fees are worth a look while you're pricing. As of September 2026, 43% of Orlando listings charged one, averaging $147 where they did, and I'd treat that fee as covering the turnover rather than as margin, since most of it ends up paying the cleaner.

Is Airbnb Legal in Orlando?

Yes, though inside the city the legal route for most people is home sharing rather than a whole-home rental. Florida law is fairly protective of vacation rentals, so the answer you actually need is whether it's legal at your address, and that comes from the state, the city and the county in turn.

Start with the state, because it sets the floor everywhere. Under Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b), a local government can't ban vacation rentals outright, and it can't put rules on the length or the frequency of a booking either, although an ordinance already on the books by June 1, 2011 escapes that limit. Zoning was never part of what the state took away, which is exactly the lever the governments here reach for. The state's Division of Hotels and Restaurants licenses whole-unit rentals separately: as of September 2026 a single-unit vacation rental license runs $170 for a full year plus a $50 application fee, while the division's own guidance says renting rooms rather than the whole unit doesn't need one.

Inside the City of Orlando, a short-term rental means a stay under 30 days, and the city sorts hosts into categories from there. Home sharing is the residential one, allowed as an accessory use in ordinary residential zoning, although the code is specific about how it has to run: you or your tenant lives on site and is present for the visit, only one booking goes at a time, no more than four unrelated guests or two per room, whichever is fewer, and no more than half the home goes to guests, which the city illustrates as one bedroom in a three-bedroom house. Registering costs $275 in the first year and then $100 a year if the owner lives there or $125 if a tenant does, while the city also wants two proofs of residency, an approval letter if you're in a mandatory homeowners association, and notarized permission from the owner if you're the tenant. Don't forget your approval has to appear in the listing itself.

One exception is worth knowing if you're weighing a duplex. Where both units sit on the same lot under one ownership, you can let the whole of one unit while you, the owner, live in the other, as long as the unit you let isn't the larger of the two.

Outside that duplex case, and unfortunately for most investors, renting out a whole home is a different animal inside the city. Orlando calls that a commercial dwelling unit, and it keeps the use out of residential districts altogether, allows it only in a short list of non-residential ones, and asks for a business tax receipt on top. There's a second catch sitting in the code's own definition, because that category has to go for at least seven consecutive nights, and anything shorter counts as a motel, which is a licensing track a single-property owner won't want. That definition was already in the city's code, word for word, before June 1, 2011, which puts it on the exempt side of the state's cutoff.

Now step outside the city, where most of this market sits. In unincorporated Orange County, renting a single-family home for under 30 days is permitted in the R-3 district and nowhere else, while short-term rental as a commercial use belongs in the commercial and industrial districts. Planned developments are the real exception, and they're how the resort subdivisions work: a PD can allow short-term rental if its approved plan expressly says so. In every other district the county prohibits both, and the code closes the back door by barring a use variance from the use table entirely. Whether a given address qualifies, then, is a zoning question with a yes or no answer rather than a negotiation, so get it answered before you make an offer instead of after.

Beyond Orange County, the market runs into Lake, Seminole, Brevard, Sumter and Volusia counties and more than twenty other cities, each of which writes its own rules, and none of which I'd assume from a neighbor. That's the easy part to get wrong, because a mailing address that says Orlando tells you nothing about which of these rulebooks applies.

Two lookups settle it, and the city itself names both. Run the address through the Orange County Property Appraiser and read the Municipality field, because if it comes back unincorporated, the county governs and the city's rules are beside the point. Then pull the property's zoning district, which the city publishes next to its table of allowable uses. If the address sits in Lake, Seminole, Brevard or further out, the same two questions apply, but you'll be asking that county's property appraiser which city, if any, the parcel falls in, and taking the zoning from whichever government that turns out to be. Do both before you get attached to a house, since neither answer moves once you own it.

Your guest is charged the lodging tax on top of the booking, so it never touches your own take, though collecting and filing it is still your job. An Orange County stay gets charged 12.5% over the booking price: 6% in Florida sales tax and 0.5% in county discretionary sales surtax, which both go to the Department of Revenue, then the 6% tourist development tax, at that rate since September 2006, which Orange County's comptroller collects directly rather than the state. Its return is filed monthly, goes delinquent after the 20th, and has to go in even for a month with no stays. Every other county here sets its own tourist development rate, so don't carry Orange County's figure across a line, and what the state filings involve is covered in Florida's short-term rental tax guide.

Enforcement mostly starts with a neighbor, since the city routes complaints about a home-sharing operation straight to its code enforcement division. A listing can run quietly for a long time, then, until somebody files, and at that point the zoning line is the zoning line no matter how well the place has been kept. Florida's code enforcement statute sets the baseline at up to $250 a day for a first violation and $500 a day for a repeat, though a city Orlando's size can adopt higher ceilings, and the fine keeps accruing until you come back into compliance. Once the order is recorded it becomes a lien on the land. Running without the state license is a separate exposure again, up to $1,000 per offense. If you'd rather work through it properly, the Orlando short-term rental regulation guide sets out every step, form, fee, tax account and phone number.

Where Do These Orlando Airbnb Numbers Come From?

That guide has every form you'll need, whereas the numbers I've used come out of BNBCalc Markets, which BNBCalc runs for comparing short-term rental markets rather than individual homes. The trends and the monthly table are its figures for every listing it measures in this market, and I built the two tables of places myself by dropping those same listings into official city and Census boundaries. One of its views puts every listing it measures onto a map of the market, and somewhere carved up like this one, that's the view I'd open first, because the pins show where the listings actually cluster, which a mailing address never will.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for an Orlando Property?

A market figure boils thousands of homes down to one number, so how do you get from that to a specific address?

The Orlando market page holds revenue, occupancy and the shape of the year, refreshed as they move, and if you haven't settled on Orlando yet, Florida's markets ranked by gross yield is the comparison to run. With a particular house picked out, feed the actual purchase price, the loan terms and the running costs into BNBCalc, then read what it gives back.

Before you trust that figure, though, walk it past a few Orlando realities. Start with zoning, because if the address can't carry a whole-home rental you should be modeling a home share or a 30-day-plus tenancy instead, and neither looks anything like the nightly figures. Look at what the model assumes for September and August too, the two months that don't book a third of their nights, since an annual average smooths right over them. Make sure to price with the 12.5% in view, because the guest pays it over and above your rate and cleaning fee, and that all-in total is what they hold up against the listing next door. And treat the rate rise as a one-off until something proves otherwise, because a single year that moved rates about 28% while occupancy slipped is a thin base for any purchase, here or anywhere else.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Average Airbnb Income in Orlando?

Across BNBCalc's Orlando market, the middle listing took in $27,023 over a trailing twelve months measured in 2026, at a median $241 a night and 33% occupancy. Inside the official city limits the median was $25,946 at $227 a night, and outside them $27,216 at $243. Making the top quarter took $40,350 market-wide but $72,992 inside the city, where the International Drive resort corridor holds over half the listings. These are medians, so they sit below the market-wide average BNBCalc also publishes.

Is Airbnb Still Profitable in Orlando in 2026?

It can be, though which jurisdiction the address sits in matters more than anything else, since nearly two in three of the market's listings sit on county land outside any city. Measured across every listing, average nightly rates gained about 28% in the year that ended in August 2026, while occupancy gave up about 3% and home purchase prices eased by about 1%. Whether one particular house works is still a question of its purchase price, its running bills and the zoning sitting on the lot.

What Is the Best Month for Airbnb in Orlando?

It depends whether you're after full calendars or high rates. Occupancy runs high from February through April, at 46% to 49% of nights, and again in July at 46%, while the highest average nightly rates come in June, at $295, and July, at $287. September and August are the thin months, the only two under a third booked, and September also has the year's lowest average rate at $197. Across the week, Saturday and Friday book the most.

Do You Need a Permit to Run an Airbnb in Orlando?

Inside the City of Orlando, yes. You register a home share with the city, at $275 for the first year and then $100 or $125 annually depending on whether the owner lives there, and the registration has to show in the listing. Renting out a whole home instead makes it a commercial dwelling unit, which calls for a business tax receipt and the right zoning district. Florida licenses whole-unit vacation rentals separately, through its Division of Hotels and Restaurants.

Can You Buy an Investment Property in Orlando and Run It as an Airbnb?

Not as a whole-home rental in an ordinary residential neighborhood inside the city limits. Orlando keeps whole-unit short-term rentals out of residential zoning, allowing them as a commercial dwelling unit in a short list of non-residential districts, with a seven-night minimum stay, or within a hotel or motel use. The one residential exception is a duplex on one lot under one ownership, where you live in one unit and let the other, no larger than your own. In unincorporated Orange County, a single-family home can be rented for under 30 days in the R-3 district or in a planned development whose approved plan expressly allows it, and the county prohibits it everywhere else.

Which Orlando Neighborhood Is Best for Short-Term Rentals?

Inside the city limits, Florida Center, the International Drive corridor between the convention center and the Universal parks, leads on median revenue by a distance at $69,328, though its typical listing has four bedrooms and it's a resort product rather than a street of homes. Among the rest, Lake Davis/Greenwood leads at $27,364 and Lake Eola Heights fills the most nights, at 37%. If you'll be living in the home and sharing it, those downtown neighborhoods are the realistic field, whereas a whole-home vacation rental means looking outside the city limits. Read all three figures as 2026 medians, worked out from BNBCalc listing data against Orlando's own neighborhood map.

How Much Is the Airbnb Tax in Orlando?

A guest staying in Orange County is charged 12.5% over the booking price. That covers Florida's 6% sales tax and Orange County's 0.5% discretionary sales surtax, both reported to the Florida Department of Revenue, plus Orange County's 6% tourist development tax, which the county comptroller collects. Tourist development returns go in monthly, become delinquent after the 20th, and are required for an empty month too. Other counties in the market set their own rates.

Does the Orlando Market Include Kissimmee and Davenport?

No. BNBCalc's Orlando market is mostly Orange County, with the rest in Lake, Brevard and Seminole and a small number of listings further out in Sumter and Volusia, and it doesn't reach into Osceola County or Polk County. Kissimmee, Davenport and the vacation-home subdivisions south of the theme parks fall inside other BNBCalc markets, so none of the figures on this page describe them. The nearest thing in this market to that product sits in Tangelo Park and in the Lake County side of Four Corners.