Los Angeles, California Airbnb Market Data 2026

What does an Airbnb in Los Angeles actually earn, and is buying one to rent by the night even on the table here?

Well, the city registers a short-term rental one way only, as home-sharing in a home you live in for more than six months of the year. You get one registration, it's only good at that address, and a standard one stops you at 120 nights a calendar year unless the city approves you for Extended Home-Sharing on top of it. Unfortunately for anyone hoping to buy a second condo and list it, Los Angeles hasn't registered anything like that since its rules took effect in 2019, and City Planning says short stays are otherwise prohibited across most of the city unless a conditional use permit allows them. There's a second gate as well. The city's Rent Stabilization Ordinance covers most multi-family housing finished before October 1978, and a home under it can't be home-shared by anyone, the owner included.

So who does that leave, and what are they earning? I'm covering the City of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, although BNBCalc's figures carry past the city line into West Hollywood, Culver City and the unincorporated parts of the county, and a host who lives elsewhere gets no easier ride in any of the three. Across all of it, BNBCalc counts fewer listings than it did a year ago, and the ones still counted are filling more of their nights than they were. Most of that drop landed in just two months, though, and nobody can yet say why.

How Much Do Los Angeles Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Start with what the listings still standing take in. The middle active listing inside the City of Los Angeles earned $41,555 over the trailing twelve months, the middle one elsewhere in this market earned $37,851, and a quarter of the city's listings cleared $59,700. Those figures come from BNBCalc's listing data, and they cover one particular group: entire homes whose calendars stayed open at least 127 nights of the year and filled at least 30% of them. That's about a third of the listings BNBCalc tracks here, and in a city that caps your nights, it's a group worth understanding before you trust its numbers.

Size sets the rough order of those earnings, although the range inside each size runs wide enough that the better one-bedrooms here out-earn the weaker homes with four bedrooms or more, so where a home sits and how well it's run count for a lot too. Switch to gross yield, meaning a year's revenue as a share of what the home costs to buy, and the sizes line up more neatly, with four-bedroom-plus homes on top, threes and twos just behind them, and one-bedrooms a little over a point back. Studios are the exception, managing less than half the yield of any other size, so that's the one size to rule out early in this market.

Before you lean on any of those medians, though, check how many nights they took. BNBCalc works out each listing's booked nights from how long its calendar stayed open and how much of that time it filled, and across the group behind those medians the average came to about 132 nights over the year, with the middle listing at about 135. Nearly two in three of them booked more than 120, which is exactly where a standard Los Angeles registration stops you, and the listings inside the city line went past it about as often as the ones outside.

That group isn't the whole market, and in Los Angeles the way it's chosen matters. It only takes in listings whose calendars were open at least 127 nights, so a host who opens the calendar just for the weeks they're away, and never offers more than 120 nights, drops out of it entirely. Across every listing BNBCalc tracks in this market, including the ones that barely opened at all, the average is about 64 booked nights and the middle listing about 48, and only about a quarter book more than 120. Inside the city limits, fewer than one in five do.

So the cap hardly touches most Los Angeles listings, because most of them never get near 120 nights, yet it binds on exactly the listings whose earnings make up the neighborhood tables. Inside the city, you need an Extended Home-Sharing approval to book past 120 nights, and there's no way to tell from the data which of those listings have one. If you're buying to host on a standard registration, treat those medians as what a listing earns running past the cap, and plan on fewer nights than it took to earn them.

Across the whole market, a large share of those active listings are run by professional hosts, so when you set a price, you'll be doing it against people who do this for a living. Guests stay past five nights on average, too, which means fewer turnovers than you'd see in a weekend-getaway city.

Passing the turnovers and the guest messaging to somebody local is one option, and the Los Angeles property management roundup compares who does it well here, though remember that whoever lives in the home is the person whose name goes on the registration.

Is the Los Angeles Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

Whether those earnings are getting easier or harder to reach depends on how many people you're sharing the market with, and on BNBCalc's count Los Angeles has fewer of them than it did a year ago.

Metric	Year-over-year change
Average nightly rate	Up
Booking lead time	Up
Occupancy	+13%
Purchase price	−2%
Active supply	Down

BNBCalc market data covering every listing tracked in this market, for September 2025 to August 2026 measured against September 2024 to August 2025, with every figure rounded and occupancy's change given in relative terms, not percentage points. Nightly rate and booking lead time carry a direction without a number, because the size of each move isn't settled, and active supply does too, because most of its fall came in one step in September and October 2025. Any measure whose direction this year's data can't pin down is left out, while purchase price follows home prices, not listings.

Probably not, although I'd hold that answer more loosely than the table makes it look.

Fewer listings and fuller calendars both point away from crowding. In an oversupplied market calendars empty out and hosts cut rates to fight over the bookings that are left, but here the listings BNBCalc still counts filled about 13% more of their nights than a year earlier, which works out to roughly five percentage points, and nightly rates went up. BNBCalc's data can't pin down how big that rate rise was, because two ways of cutting the year disagree on the size, although both put it up.

The catch is in how the count fell. Most of the year's drop arrived in September and October 2025, and BNBCalc's nearby Burbank, Malibu and Pasadena markets fell in those same two months, which makes it look like one regional step, not a slow drift. What the data can't yet say is whether hosts left, whether platforms delisted listings, or whether what gets tracked changed, and enforcement, the rent-stabilization carve-out and plain owner churn would all look the same in a supply line anyway. That step could flatter the occupancy rise, too, because if the listings that dropped out were the emptier ones, the average of what's left goes up without any single calendar getting fuller.

So treat the answer as a lean. The headline count isn't the thing to watch here, and before you trust it, make sure to re-check how often listings like the one you're weighing fill their nights, every few months.

Guests also began booking further out over the year, and the gap between a booking and its check-in date averaged about 36 days. When your nights are capped, that lead time is useful, because you can see the shape of a month while there's still time to decide which bookings are worth spending your allowance on.

When Is Peak Airbnb Season in Los Angeles?

The shape of the year here isn't the one I expected, because Los Angeles barely has an occupancy season at all, and what moves instead is the price.

Month	Occupancy	Avg nightly rate
Sep 2025	43%	$236
Oct 2025	48%	$255
Nov 2025	43%	$266
Dec 2025	39%	$271
Jan 2026	39%	$249
Feb 2026	41%	$272
Mar 2026	40%	$282
Apr 2026	44%	$280
May 2026	44%	$292
Jun 2026	44%	$374
Jul 2026	46%	$370
Aug 2026	46%	$318

BNBCalc market data across every listing in the market, one row per month from September 2025 through August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are averaged independently of each other, so read each column on its own.

Every month in that table books between 39% and 48% of its nights, a nine-point band across a whole year, while the average nightly rate runs from $236 up to $374. June and July carried the highest rates in this window, at $374 and $370, and September and January the lowest, at $236 and $249. Treat that summer peak as this year's and not a fixture, because the World Cup played matches in the Los Angeles area from mid-June into July. December and January sit lowest on occupancy, at 39% each, yet December still charged $271, so the emptiest month of the year wasn't the cheapest one.

That changes what you do about peak season. Where summer fills the calendar, the work is getting found, but here occupancy barely moves from one month to the next, so the work is making sure you're not still charging February's rate in June.

The week has far more shape than the year does. Going by BNBCalc's current all-listing figures, Saturday's occupancy runs 17% above the weekly average and Friday's 15%, while Monday's and Tuesday's each sit 13% below it, and those are relative gaps, not percentage points. Prices follow the same pattern with a smaller swing, peaking 10% above the weekly average on a Saturday.

Put the week and the cap together and you can see what a standard registration asks of you. A hundred and twenty nights is roughly a third of the year, well short of what the active listings booked, so the cap costs you nights whichever ones you choose, and the only thing left to decide is which. Guests here stay more than five nights on average, so you're choosing whole weeks, not picking off Saturdays, and this year a week in June or July charged a good deal more than one in September or January.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Los Angeles?

Which nights you take is one decision. Which side of a city line you buy on is the bigger one, because that changes the rulebook and not only the numbers.

This market splits almost exactly in half at the city limits. About half the active listings sit inside the City of Los Angeles itself, a little over half if you count a cluster of listings advertised as downtown whose map pins land in neighboring Vernon, and most of the rest are in West Hollywood, Culver City, Whittier or on unincorporated county land. Inside the city the middle listing earns more and charges a higher nightly rate than the middle listing outside it, while the middle listing on each side of the line fills the same share of its nights. The city's own community map sorts the first table and the surrounding jurisdictions sort the second, so read each one on its own rather than across.

Inside the City of Los Angeles

Los Angeles County maps the city into named communities, and each active listing in this market's slice of the city drops into whichever community contains it. It's only a slice, because the market doesn't reach the San Fernando Valley, Venice, the Westside coast or the harbor, so none of those areas are in the table. Twelve communities carry enough data to rank, and here they are by median annual revenue.

Rank	Community	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Hollywood Hills	$72,122	$541	36%	$99,866
2	Melrose	$51,695	$447	37%	$70,422
3	Echo Park	$47,005	$348	42%	$64,536
4	Crenshaw District	$43,702	$365	35%	$49,550
5	Silver Lake	$43,678	$346	41%	$73,250
6	Alsace	$41,508	$278	46%	$64,780
7	Hollywood	$39,636	$343	37%	$58,372
8	Glassell Park	$37,021	$280	37%	$53,205
9	Temple-Beaudry	$36,144	$295	40%	$50,173
10	Mt. Washington	$34,010	$260	36%	$49,714
11	Downtown Los Angeles	$33,490	$263	35%	$42,038
12	Boyle Heights	$32,253	$234	38%	$37,739

BNBCalc 2026 listing data for active entire homes (calendars open at least 127 nights of the year, at least 30% of those nights filled), placed inside Los Angeles County's community boundaries for the City of Los Angeles, trailing twelve months, where revenue, rate and occupancy are medians and the last column is the 75th percentile, the point at which a community's top quarter of listings begins. Each column is worked out on its own, so they don't multiply together, and communities with too little data are left out.

One warning about that occupancy column before you read anything into it. A figure in it belongs to the middle listing of that community, not to the market, so it isn't comparable with the monthly table. Use it to set one community beside another, and for nothing else.

Hollywood Hills tops the table on revenue, nightly rate and top-quarter revenue, and its typical listing has three bedrooms, which explains most of that lead. On occupancy it sits near the bottom, at 36%, so the lead comes from the rate it charges and not from filling more nights.

Its 75th percentile, $99,866, is the highest in the table by more than $26,000, so a well-run house up there has real room above the median.

Below Hollywood Hills the ranking sorts largely by size. Melrose and the Crenshaw District both run typical three-bedrooms and land between about $43,000 and $52,000, while most of the rest of the table runs on typical two-bedrooms and spreads from roughly $32,000 to $47,000. Downtown Los Angeles finishes eleventh of twelve on median revenue, yet a typical listing there has one bedroom, so if you divide by bedrooms it's the strongest row in the table.

Two communities are worth a second look. Silver Lake posts the second-highest 75th percentile in the table at $73,250 off a typical two-bedroom, and when the gap from the median up to the top quarter opens that far, the operator usually matters more than the address. Alsace, a small area just west of the Crenshaw District, has the best median occupancy of the twelve at 46% while charging $278 a night, which is near the bottom of the table on rate. That's the trade you make wherever guests are picking on price.

Not every row rests on the same amount of data, either. Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles and Melrose have the most behind them, and the smaller entries will shuffle between refreshes, so trust the rough order more than the exact rank.

No column here says anything about living in these places, and in a city that only registers you where you live, that's half the decision. The best Los Angeles neighborhoods for Airbnb takes that half.

Outside the City Limits

So is it better on the other side of the line? Not for a buyer who won't live in the home, so start with the last column. These are the other jurisdictions in this market with enough listings to measure, apart from Vernon. Its listings' map pins land in the city's industrial core while their titles advertise Downtown Los Angeles and Koreatown, so the coordinates are wrong and I've left the row out.

Rank	City or area	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue	Who can host
1	Culver City	$41,760	$293	40%	$54,375	No one, for now
2	View Park/Windsor Hills (unincorporated)	$39,192	$339	37%	$53,444	Hosts who live on county land
3	West Hollywood	$37,982	$303	35%	$49,841	Resident owners, home for the stay
4	East Los Angeles (unincorporated)	$30,367	$229	38%	$40,960	Hosts who live on county land
5	Whittier	$27,079	$224	34%	$39,806	Owners who live in Whittier

BNBCalc 2026 listing data for the same active entire homes, placed inside Los Angeles County's city boundaries with unincorporated areas labeled as such, trailing twelve months, for the places with enough listings to measure, where columns are medians apart from the 75th percentile and each is worked out separately, while the last column summarizes each jurisdiction's own rules as of September 2026.

Culver City leads that table on a typical one-bedroom, but read the row before you act on it. The city says rentals of under 30 days are currently prohibited, because its zoning code only allows the uses it lists and short stays aren't one of them. It isn't actively hunting listings down while its council works on new rules, which it expects to consider before the end of 2026, but the city says that policy can change at any time, and even the direction its council gave back in 2019 limited hosting to a primary residence. The revenue in that row is real, while the permission isn't.

West Hollywood, third in the table on a typical two-bedroom, is closed to investors as well. It prohibits vacation rentals outright, and its one exception is a home-sharing license for an owner who lives in the unit and stays there for the guest's entire visit, so renters can't get one, and nobody can hand guests an empty home.

View Park/Windsor Hills, second in the table, and East Los Angeles aren't cities at all. They're unincorporated county land, so Los Angeles County's rules apply: a registration certificate from the county Treasurer and Tax Collector, issued to hosts whose primary residence is on that county land, and a 12% bed tax instead of the city's 14%. BNBCalc's Los Angeles County guide is where I'd start if an address lands out there. Make sure to pin down the jurisdiction before you assume county land is the looser option, because it asks the same question about where you live that the city does.

Whittier is the one row where an owner who lives elsewhere can get a permit, and even there the city wants proof that you live at the property or somewhere else in Whittier, and it won't permit accessory units or homes in its high fire-hazard zones.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Los Angeles?

Once the address is settled, what you put inside it is the part you still control, and in Los Angeles the answer flips depending on the size of the home.

On the public market page, where every size is pooled together, a hot tub is the only feature whose value is shown, at about 11% more revenue. Split the model by bedroom count, though, and that pooled number is wrong for most sizes. In BNBCalc's current amenity model it's a gym that leads one-bedrooms, at about 12%, a hot tub first for two-bedrooms at about 11%, a barbecue first for three-bedrooms at about 15%, and a hot tub again for homes with four bedrooms or more, where it's worth about 18%. Studios answer to something else altogether, since the only feature that registers for them is allowing pets, at about 7%.

So the advice inverts as you move up the range. On a four-bedroom house in the hills a hot tub is the single best thing you can add, while on a one-bedroom, where a hot tub barely shows up at all, a building gym does that job instead, and a gym is something you buy with the building, not something you install afterwards.

At the market-wide level the model keeps score on nine features, and bicycles, a barbecue, an EV charger, a sauna, allowing pets, lake access (it does register here, oddly enough), parking, a gym and a pool all make that list, but BNBCalc Markets keeps their pooled values, so the only numbers I can give you are the per-size ones. Parking is the one I'd single out anyway, because it's what a guest in this city is most likely to need and the hardest thing to add once you've bought.

Cleaning fees are the other line worth a look, and most active listings here don't charge one. As of September 2026 about 46% do, at around $160 a stay, and BNBCalc puts that at roughly $2,560 a listing over a year. It gets there listing by listing, dividing each one's booked nights by its typical stay to estimate how many stays it had, multiplying by its fee, and then averaging across every listing with the ones that charge nothing counted as zero. Keep in mind that the city's 14% reaches that fee as well, because voters passed Measure TC in June 2026, and it spells out that cleaning charges and booking-site fees count as part of the rent the tax is figured on.

Is Airbnb Legal in Los Angeles?

Yes, but only as home-sharing, and only in the home you actually live in. If you're buying a place instead of hosting where you already live, every figure so far sits downstream of that one condition.

As of September 2026, under the city's Home-Sharing Ordinance, a short-term rental means renting a home or part of one for 30 consecutive days or less, and each one needs a registration from Los Angeles City Planning. That registration only attaches to your primary residence, and the city counts that as the one home you live in for more than six months of the calendar year and home-share from. You can hold one registration at a time, it runs for a year, and it doesn't transfer to another address or another person.

Within that rule the city is more relaxed than you'd guess. Renters can register as well as owners, though a renter needs the landlord's written approval, notarized, and a landlord can block home-sharing across all their properties by writing to City Planning. A single room and the entire home both qualify, and the city draws no line between hosted and unhosted stays, so you can be away while guests are in. You can even keep several listings for the same home, as long as only one is booked at a time.

The exclusions are where most Los Angeles plans stop. A home covered by the Rent Stabilization Ordinance can't be home-shared, and that's most multi-family housing finished before October 1978, so a large slice of the city's apartment stock is out before anything else gets considered. An affordable-housing covenant or an income restriction rules a home out too, as does any pending citation from Building and Safety, Housing, Police or Fire, and a building converted from rent-stabilized units into single-family homes stays ineligible for five years afterwards. Make sure to check a property's status in the city's ZIMAS mapping tool under the Housing tab before you spend anything, because nothing further matters if it fails here.

The granny flat out back is the question that comes up most often, and the answer disappoints people. The city calls those accessory dwelling units, and if the building permit application for one went in on or after January 1, 2017, you can only home-share it when the unit itself is where you live, so staying in the main house and renting the one behind it isn't a legal short-term rental here.

Then there's the night limit. A standard registration allows 120 nights of home-sharing in a calendar year, which the ordinance counts as days, and to go past it you need Extended Home-Sharing. The Director of Planning can approve that without a hearing if you've held a registration for at least six months or hosted at least 60 days, you've picked up no more than one citation in the previous three years, and you've mailed notice to the neighbors next door. Pick up two citations in three years, though, and the application goes to discretionary review instead, where City Planning may hold a public hearing.

The fees are modest next to the property. A home-sharing registration or renewal costs $89, while Extended Home-Sharing adds $850 for the administrative route or $5,660 where it needs discretionary review, and $850 a year to renew either way. Your registration number, or the pending one the city issues when you submit, has to appear in every listing.

Lodging tax lands on top of the guest's total instead of coming out of what you charge, although you're the one on the hook for it reaching the city. The city takes 14% of the rent as a hotel tax, which it calls the Transient Occupancy Tax, and the county's own 12% bed tax reaches only unincorporated land, so inside the city 14% is the whole of it. Voters turned down a rise to 16% in June 2026 but passed Measure TC at the same election, and since it took effect in July the 14% is figured on everything the guest pays for the stay, booking-site fees and cleaning charges included. California hands the rate to each city and county and caps nothing, which is how two addresses a few miles apart end up on different numbers.

Airbnb is one of several marketplaces that have agreed with the city to collect the tax and pass it on, so plenty of hosts never file it themselves. The ordinance even lets you skip the city's tax registration certificate if you only list on those platforms, although the Office of Finance says every owner renting this way should apply for one, so I'd get it anyway, and you'll certainly need it for anything booked outside that set. Filing it yourself is covered in BNBCalc's guide to California short-term rental taxes.

Enforcement has teeth here, mostly because it reaches the platforms as well as the hosts. A platform that processes a booking for a listing with no valid registration number, or for one that's blown past the 120-night limit, faces $1,000 a day per listing. A host who advertises without a valid number faces $500 a day or twice the nightly rate, whichever is greater, and going past 120 nights without approval runs $2,000 a day or twice the rate. On top of that, two citations suspend a registration for 30 days, or for as long as either one stays open if that's longer, while three sustained citations inside a registration year revoke it and bar you from home-sharing for a year. Treat those dollar figures as floors, since the ordinance has them rising with inflation each year.

For the application steps, the paperwork to gather and who to call about each part of it, the Los Angeles short-term rental regulation guide collects all of it.

How Does BNBCalc Track the Los Angeles Airbnb Market?

That guide handles registration, while the earnings, occupancy and rate figures come from BNBCalc Markets, which ranks short-term rental markets by what a year of bookings brings in. If the primary-residence rule has just ruled Los Angeles out for you, that ranking is a quick way to find markets that earn well, although it can't tell you which ones let an owner who lives elsewhere host, so check a market's rules before you get attached to it.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Los Angeles Property?

A ranking describes whole markets, so once you're down to one property, the Los Angeles market page is where to watch the revenue, occupancy and seasonality figures refresh. If Los Angeles isn't locked in yet, the best California markets by gross yield sets it beside every other market in the state.

Then, once you have an actual address to work on, put the asking price, your financing and your running costs into BNBCalc.

Whatever it returns goes through a Los Angeles filter next. Living in the home is the question that governs the rest, so if that isn't the plan, model it as a rental of more than 30 days and leave the nightly figures alone. If it is the plan, keep in mind that the neighborhood medians come from listings that mostly booked more than 120 nights, and a standard registration stops you at 120, so plan on fewer booked nights than they had until an Extended Home-Sharing approval is in hand. Look up the building's rent-stabilization status early as well, because a pre-1978 apartment ends it there however good the math looks. And add the 14% to the guest's total instead of pulling it out of your own rate, since that's where the city puts it.

An average only ever describes the listings it was measured on. Whenever a rule limits how much of the year you're allowed to sell, check whether the listings behind a number were working under the same limit, because if most of them weren't, the number is describing somebody else's business.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Average Airbnb Income in Los Angeles?

In 2026, over a trailing twelve months, the middle active listing inside the city limits earned $41,555 and the middle one elsewhere in this market earned $37,851, and a quarter of the city's listings cleared $59,700. Those are medians, not averages, for entire homes that kept their calendars open at least 127 nights of the year, and nearly two in three of those homes booked more than the 120 nights a standard city registration allows. Homes of the same size vary widely, and in BNBCalc's figures a top one-bedroom beats a weak four-bedroom-plus home.

Is Airbnb Still Profitable in Los Angeles in 2026?

For hosts who qualify it can be, because Los Angeles only registers home-sharing in a host's primary residence and excludes rent-stabilized housing outright. Market-wide, BNBCalc counted fewer active listings over the year, most of the drop coming in September and October 2025, while occupancy gained about 13% in relative terms and nightly rates rose. What any particular home returns still depends on what it cost, what it takes to run, and how many of the 120 permitted nights end up booked.

What Is the Best Month for Airbnb in Los Angeles?

June 2026 carried the highest average nightly rate in this market at $374, with July close behind at $370, while September 2025 was the cheapest month at $236. That summer peak coincided with World Cup matches in the Los Angeles area, so it may not repeat. Occupancy hardly moves by comparison, running between 39% and 48% across the twelve months. Fridays and Saturdays book better than any other night.

Do You Need a License to Run an Airbnb in Los Angeles?

Yes. Renting out a home for 30 consecutive days or fewer calls for a home-sharing registration from Los Angeles City Planning, and registering or renewing it costs $89. Only a host's primary residence qualifies, meaning the home they live in for over six months of the year, and the registration number must appear in every listing. Going beyond 120 nights in a calendar year needs a separate Extended Home-Sharing approval.

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

Not as a short-term rental. Home-sharing registration in the City of Los Angeles covers a host's own primary residence only, one per person, and it isn't valid at any other address. Rent-stabilized housing, homes under an affordable-housing covenant and income-restricted homes can't be home-shared at all. The neighboring jurisdictions in this market aren't an easy way around it either: Culver City currently prohibits stays under 30 days, West Hollywood only licenses owners who stay in the home during the visit, unincorporated county land registers only hosts whose primary residence is there, and Whittier requires the owner to live at the property or elsewhere in Whittier. Renting for more than 30 days at a time falls outside the city's home-sharing ordinance.

Which Los Angeles Neighborhood Is Best for Short-Term Rentals?

It depends on the home. Hollywood Hills carries the highest median revenue among the city's communities at $72,122, though a typical listing there has three bedrooms. Among the twelve communities with enough data to rank, Echo Park and Silver Lake lead the typical two-bedroom rows on median revenue, at $47,005 and $43,678, and Silver Lake has the higher 75th percentile at $73,250. Each of those medians is a 2026 figure for active entire homes, drawn from BNBCalc's listing records and placed inside the county's community boundaries for the city.

How Much Is the Airbnb Tax in Los Angeles?

The City of Los Angeles applies a 14% Transient Occupancy Tax to the rent, charged to the guest, and since Measure TC took effect in July 2026 that rent includes booking-site fees and cleaning charges. Voters rejected a rise to 16% at the same June 2026 election. Airbnb is among the marketplaces that have agreed with the city to collect the tax and pass it on, while hosts booking outside that set register with the Office of Finance and pay it themselves. Unincorporated Los Angeles County charges 12% instead, collected by the county Treasurer and Tax Collector, and the county's bed tax stops at the city limits.

Is the Los Angeles Airbnb Market Shrinking?

On BNBCalc's count, yes. Active supply across the whole market came down in the year to August 2026, but most of that drop arrived in September and October 2025, when nearby markets including Burbank, Malibu and Pasadena fell too, and it isn't clear yet whether hosts walked away or the listings were pulled. Occupancy went up about 13% in relative terms over the same twelve months, though part of that may reflect which listings are still being counted. The market reaches past the City of Los Angeles into West Hollywood, Culver City, Whittier and unincorporated county land, and about half of it sits inside the city limits.