Atlanta, Georgia Airbnb Market Data 2026

What does an Atlanta Airbnb bring in, and how many is one person allowed to run?

Well, the middle listing across the Atlanta market earned $24,559 over the past twelve months, and the second answer is a number as well: two. A short-term rental license in Atlanta covers the home a host lives in plus one more unit. You have to register the home you actually live in before that second address counts for anything, and the city is blunt that nobody gets two primary residences. So if you arrived planning to buy a handful of houses inside the city and run every one of them by the night, the plan runs out at the second address, and that's a much cheaper thing to find out now than after closing.

That ceiling only binds inside the city line, though, and most of this market's listings, roughly three out of every five, sit outside it. Atlanta itself sits mostly in Fulton County, Georgia, with an eastern slice in DeKalb, while BNBCalc's Atlanta market reaches across 36 counties, Cobb and Gwinnett among them, each with rules of its own. Across all of it, average nightly rates climbed about 26% over the past year while occupancy slipped about 9%.

How Much Do Atlanta Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Those rate and occupancy moves are averages, so start instead with what a single listing takes home. For the whole market, BNBCalc's 2026 listing data puts the median listing at $24,559 over the past twelve months. Inside the city limits the median was $25,938, and outside them $23,749. A median is the listing halfway down the list, so it stays put when a few homes earn a fortune, unlike an average, and that makes it the fairer place to start a pro forma. Meanwhile, the strongest quarter of the market starts at $36,456 a year.

Still, those figures bury how far apart two homes of one size can finish. A strong one-bedroom here clears ten times what a weak one-bedroom takes, and in fact at every size the gap between the best and worst listings is wider than the gap between that size and the next one up. You choose the street, you furnish the place and you decide how hard the calendar gets worked, so most of that distance sits on your side of the deal.

Gross yield tells a cleaner story about size. From one-bedrooms up to four-plus-bedroom houses, a mid-range listing's yield lands in the same narrow band, so none of those sizes stands out as the obvious buy. Studios fall well short of it, yielding about two-fifths of what a one-bedroom does and roughly a third of anything larger, so don't treat a cheap studio as the low-risk way into this market.

Then there's the competition. BNBCalc's data shows a large share of the listings around you belong to professional hosts, which is a curious thing in a city that stops each license at two addresses, because it means those operators are mostly managing homes for other owners or working past the city boundary. Handing the cleaning schedule and the 2am door-code texts to a management company is one way to meet them on their own terms, and the Atlanta property management roundup sizes up who does that work here. Remember, though, that the license itself belongs to whoever lives in the registered home, and that hiring a manager puts the property under a state training law that took effect this July.

At the top end, the listings BNBCalc counts as high performers here keep nearly half their nights sold, against under a third for the market across the year. That's worth aiming at, but you'll want to write the deal on the median and count everything past it as upside.

Is the Atlanta Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

Aiming that high assumes there's room left to move into, which is the question everyone asks about Atlanta, and it's also the one place in this article where the numbers won't give you a clean answer.

Metric	Year-over-year change
Average nightly rate	+26%
Occupancy	−9%
Purchase price	Roughly flat

BNBCalc market data covering every listing BNBCalc tracks in the Atlanta market, setting September 2025 through August 2026 against the matching twelve months a year earlier, rounded. Each change is relative to last year's level, so occupancy's −9% means it lost about a tenth of its level, not nine percentage points. Listing counts and booking lead time are missing because BNBCalc checks every trend on two twelve-month windows, and for those two the windows disagree about which direction each one moved. I'd rather leave a row out than publish a number that flips. Purchase price follows home values rather than listings.

So, is Atlanta oversaturated? This release can't settle it. Listing counts are what would decide the question, and Atlanta's come out slightly up on one of those windows and clearly down on the other, so whichever version I printed would be a guess wearing a decimal point.

Price and occupancy did survive the check, though, and they pulled apart. Rates went up about 26% across the market while occupancy gave up about 9% of its level, which works out to roughly three percentage points. That isn't the shape crowding usually takes. A market genuinely choking on supply has its hosts discounting to win the same nights, whereas Atlanta's hosts raised prices instead. Treat that as a lean rather than a verdict, mind you, because it tells you what hosts did, not how many of them arrived, and the arrivals are the part I can't show you.

With no market-wide verdict on offer, stop waiting for one and do this instead. Take the dozen listings closest to the address you're weighing that resemble what you'd run, note how full each calendar is, then look at the same dozen three months later. Nights sold on comparable homes will show you whether your street is tightening up well before any market-level figure does, and you'd want that read before committing anyway.

You can take the entry cost at face value, at least. Home prices across the market barely budged over the year, so nothing is moving under your feet while you look.

When Is Atlanta's Peak Airbnb Season?

Timing matters as much as location when you check, because Atlanta's calendar has real shape to it.

Month	Occupancy	Avg nightly rate
Sep 2025	28%	$234
Oct 2025	32%	$245
Nov 2025	29%	$248
Dec 2025	28%	$247
Jan 2026	27%	$231
Feb 2026	26%	$228
Mar 2026	33%	$241
Apr 2026	35%	$248
May 2026	34%	$268
Jun 2026	33%	$354
Jul 2026	35%	$339
Aug 2026	27%	$256

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 one at a time, so read each column on its own rather than multiplying them together.

Atlanta's peak runs from early spring into midsummer. Occupancy holds between 33% and 35% right through March, April, May, June and July, and then June and July break away on price, at $354 and $339 against a year that never otherwise clears $268.

Before you build anything on those two months, though, look at what was in town. Atlanta hosted eight FIFA World Cup matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium between 15 June and 15 July 2026, five group-stage games plus a round of 32, a round of 16 and a semi-final. These figures can't tell me how much of June's $354 the tournament bought, and honestly nobody can separate it cleanly, which is the point: an unrepeatable event sat inside your best-priced months. So if you're putting a pro forma together, I'd price next June nearer May's $268 and let anything above that be a surprise rather than a plan.

The quiet end of the year is easier to plan around. Not one month from November through February fills 30% of its nights, and February is the cheapest on the calendar too at $228, so a flat monthly budget will make your winter look better than it really is and sell your spring short.

Within each week there's a pattern too, and it runs on nights sold far more than on price. Across every listing BNBCalc tracks here right now, Saturdays book about 30% more often than the average day, Fridays about a quarter more, and Mondays and Tuesdays come in roughly 20% under it. Friday and Saturday rates sit only about 13% above an average night, though, so guests fill weekends much faster than the price climbs, and that suggests there's room to push the weekend rate before those nights stop filling. If you're going to touch one setting, make sure it's the weekend premium.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Atlanta?

Weekend pricing is a setting you can move on a Tuesday afternoon, whereas an address stays whatever it was when you signed, and here it also fixes which government you'll be dealing with.

About 38.5% of the market's listings sit inside Atlanta's city limits. By county, Fulton holds about 43% of them, most of those inside the city itself, while DeKalb has about 13%, Cobb about 10%, Gwinnett about 8%, and the rest are spread across another 32 counties. Outside the city line, roughly half of everything sits in unincorporated county land with no city government over it at all. Atlanta draws its own neighborhood map, while everywhere past the city line has to be placed with Census boundaries, so the ranking comes as two tables, one per boundary set, and rows from one shouldn't be set against rows from the other.

Inside the City of Atlanta

That neighborhood map has 248 official boundaries, so each measurable listing within the city limits landed in whichever boundary holds it, and these are the 15 strongest by median annual revenue.

Rank	Neighborhood	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Pine Hills †	$96,483	$669	27%	$115,880
2	Southwest †	$68,870	$751	29%	$100,979
3	Home Park ‡	$47,325	$534	27%	$85,938
4	North Buckhead	$46,743	$447	28%	$73,622
5	Piedmont Heights	$37,904	$304	32%	$45,530
6	Castleberry Hill	$37,179	$367	33%	$87,203
7	Kirkwood	$36,189	$322	30%	$54,325
8	West Lake †	$31,521	$251	26%	$34,978
9	Lakewood Heights	$31,071	$223	32%	$38,342
10	Cabbagetown	$30,810	$301	30%	$42,462
11	Downtown	$30,487	$304	33%	$57,982
12	Reynoldstown	$30,007	$241	31%	$36,848
13	Garden Hills	$29,807	$269	29%	$41,679
14	Washington Park	$29,753	$302	27%	$37,447
15	Vine City	$29,526	$320	30%	$43,331

BNBCalc 2026 listing data placed inside the City of Atlanta's official neighborhood boundaries, trailing twelve months. Revenue, rate and occupancy are medians, and the last column is the 75th percentile, where a neighborhood's strongest quarter of listings begins. Each column is worked out on its own, so the three don't multiply together. Neighborhoods too thin to measure are dropped, although clearing that bar isn't the same as being solid: † marks the thinnest rows that survive, which will move between refreshes, and ‡ marks Home Park, which the council voted in August 2025 to close to new short-term rental permits.

A word on that occupancy column before you lean on it. Every number in it belongs to a single listing, the middle one in its neighborhood, so it isn't the market-wide average the monthly calendar reports, and you should only compare it across neighborhoods, never against the monthly figures.

I wouldn't take the top two rows at face value either. Pine Hills and the neighborhood named Southwest both rest on thin samples of large houses, so their medians tell you what a big home earns in those pockets rather than proving either one pays several times the city's median.

Home Park and North Buckhead are the rows with enough behind them to argue about, and Home Park carries a catch that's worth the whole section. In August 2025 the council voted to rezone that neighborhood, the one pressed up against Georgia Tech, to bar new short-term rental permits while grandfathering the licenses already issued. So the third-strongest row in the table is a place the council has voted to close to newcomers, which is the plainest reminder I can give you that a good number and an available street are two different things.

Below them, Piedmont Heights, Castleberry Hill and Kirkwood land between roughly $36,000 and $38,000, and Castleberry Hill is the one I'd study hardest. Its 75th percentile reaches $87,203 against a $37,179 median, which is the widest spread anywhere in these fifteen rows, so a sharply run listing there evidently leaves the median one far behind. Downtown, meanwhile, rests on the deepest sample of any Atlanta neighborhood and still posts $30,487 at a 33% median occupancy, among the best fill rates in the fifteen.

No table will tell you what it feels like to live in one of these places with guests next door, which counts for a lot when the license begins with the home you occupy, and the best Atlanta neighborhoods for Airbnb is written for exactly that question.

The Rest of the Atlanta Market

Do the suburbs pay better? Taken as a group, no.

Rank	City or area	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Alpharetta	$42,378	$327	35%	$48,183
2	Roswell	$29,814	$254	32%	$42,098
3	Belvedere Park	$27,633	$242	29%	$36,305
4	Atlanta	$25,932	$251	31%	$40,145
5	Candler-McAfee	$25,765	$241	30%	$36,847
6	South Fulton	$25,716	$261	27%	$39,533
7	Sandy Springs	$24,514	$216	29%	$37,957
8	Covington	$23,630	$221	30%	$28,802
9	Marietta	$23,554	$211	33%	$31,675
10	Decatur	$22,444	$208	33%	$33,864
11	Smyrna	$21,315	$208	30%	$27,184
12	Mableton	$21,173	$198	29%	$29,995
13	Fairfield Plantation	$20,725	$188	32%	$22,370
14	Rome	$20,375	$208	27%	$28,418
15	East Point	$19,655	$196	29%	$31,200

BNBCalc 2026 listing data placed inside US Census place boundaries, trailing twelve months, limited to the places in this market holding the most listings. Columns are medians apart from the 75th percentile, each worked out separately. Belvedere Park, Candler-McAfee and Fairfield Plantation are Census designated places rather than incorporated cities, and Fairfield Plantation is a gated lake and golf community out in Carroll County rather than an Atlanta suburb. The Atlanta row follows the Census Bureau's line for the city, which runs slightly differently from the city's own boundary, so its median sits a few dollars off the $25,938 quoted for the city limits.

Atlanta lands fourth on that list, and the listings inside the city limits post a higher median than everything outside them put together, $25,938 against $23,749, so the suburbs aren't the quiet arbitrage some people assume. Three places do clear the city's median, Alpharetta, Roswell and Belvedere Park, and Alpharetta is the one that earns a look, since it tops the table well clear of the other two.

Before you read too much into that order, though, look at the houses behind it. Alpharetta and Roswell run on three-bedroom homes while Atlanta, Decatur and Smyrna run on two-bedroom ones, so part of what looks like a location premium is really floor space. It isn't all floor space, because South Fulton runs on three-bedroom homes too and still finishes just behind Atlanta, so extra bedrooms help without guaranteeing a thing. Notice, too, how far this market runs, since Covington out to the east, Rome up in the northwest and the lake houses of Fairfield Plantation all hold enough listings to rank, and not one of them is anywhere near downtown. That's worth remembering whenever you see an Atlanta-wide average.

The bigger difference between those rows is legal, not financial. Georgia's Department of Revenue handles the sales tax and the nightly state fee, the license is Atlanta's, and once you leave the city line the licensing belongs to whichever county or town you landed in, so every place in that table has a rulebook of its own. Since roughly half the listings outside Atlanta sit in unincorporated land, the county is often the government you'd be dealing with rather than a city at all. Belvedere Park and Candler-McAfee, for instance, are unincorporated DeKalb County, so make sure you read the specific jurisdiction before you assume a suburb is looser than the city.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Atlanta?

Whichever government you end up under, what goes inside the unit is still yours to decide, and a few features move revenue further than the rest.

Counting every size of home together, one feature stands clear of the others: BNBCalc's amenity analysis currently reads a hot tub as worth about 22% more revenue to an Atlanta listing, and that's the single figure the public market page publishes outright. Split the market by size and the order shifts at the margins, since a gym comes out ahead among two-bedrooms and an EV charger among four-plus-bedroom houses. Treat those as refinements for a home of that size rather than a reason to doubt the hot tub, which still leads once every size is pooled.

Beyond the hot tub, nine features still carry a signal the analysis tracks, listed alphabetically because their order stays inside BNBCalc Markets along with their values: a barbecue, bikes, an EV charger, a gym, lake access, letting guests bring pets, a pool, a sauna and a TV. As for the basics almost every home comes with, the analysis leaves them out altogether, since a feature every home offers can't tell the good listings from the poor ones.

While you're costing the place out, spare a minute for cleaning fees. As of September 2026, roughly 46% of the market's listings carried one, and where a fee appeared it averaged about $139. Count every listing, those with no fee included, and the average comes to about $1,871 a year apiece. Most of that leaves again the moment your cleaner invoices you, so a cleaning fee is cost recovery wearing the clothes of income. A higher Saturday rate isn't.

Is Airbnb Legal in Atlanta?

Yes, with a license, and the license is what caps you at two addresses.

In the code as it reads this September, a stay counts as a short-term rental if it runs 30 consecutive days or less. That means Section 20-1004 makes it unlawful to rent out all or any part of a home that way without first holding a short-term rental license from the Department of City Planning. That one license covers the host's primary residence plus one additional dwelling unit, with no extra fees, permits or zoning conditions attached to the second one. Atlanta's own guidance is direct about the order, too: the primary residence goes on the license first, and you can only ever have one primary residence.

Putting the house in an LLC doesn't get you round that order, since the city's affidavits for entity-owned homes come in the same two kinds, one for a primary residence and one for the additional unit. Whether a spouse or partner who shares your home could hold a license of their own, the city's page doesn't say, so email its short-term rental office before you count on it.

Owners can apply, and so can long-term tenants and an agent authorized to act for the owner. Every license names a short-term rental agent who has to be reachable at all times, and you're allowed to serve as your own. That agent's duties are spelled out in the ordinance: handle problems as they come up, keep an emergency number posted somewhere visible inside the unit, accept service of any violation notice, monitor the unit for compliance, and put the license number on each online listing.

Applying costs $150, which is non-refundable whether or not you're approved, and the city tells applicants to expect up to ten business days. A license lasts one year, counted from the day it's granted, and the city emails a reminder a month before it lapses. Where people trip up is the notice. Before you apply, you have to send certified mail to every adjacent property giving the unit's address and your agent's contact details, then keep the receipts as proof you did it. You don't have to name the neighbors, so don't get stuck trying to find out who owns what; the letter just has to reach the address.

Once you're operating, occupancy is capped at two adults per bedroom, and that cap plus your parking arrangements have to appear in the written rules posted inside the unit. A legible copy of the license goes up inside too, carrying the agent's details, the license number, the maximum occupancy and how many vehicles may park there. Nothing goes up outside, since no external signage is allowed anywhere on the property. Just as plainly, the ordinance says it doesn't override the zoning ordinance, the housing and building codes, or any private lease, covenant or condo rule, so a city license won't beat an HOA that bans short stays.

Enforcement has been live since March 2023, and it comes through two doors. Complaints about units that already hold a license go to the police, while zoning enforcement takes the ones operating without one. A fully adjudicated violation costs $500. Once the police have recorded three violations at the same property, the city revokes any pending license and refuses every application for that address for the next 12 months, although other properties on the same license carry on unaffected. Running with no license at all is unlawful outright, and it brings a mandatory one-year wait before the city will even accept an application for that unit.

If you're denied, suspended or revoked, you have 30 calendar days to appeal in writing. Under the ordinance, appeals go to the Chief Operating Officer, who has named the Department of City Planning to handle them, and you'll get a written answer within 30 days. Past that, the only route left is certiorari to the Fulton County Superior Court.

Lodging taxes attach to the guest's bill rather than to the rate you keep, and you're still the one who has to see them filed. Atlanta charges an 8% hotel-motel tax on what a short-term rental guest is charged. Georgia's Department of Revenue puts the combined state and local sales tax at 8.9% inside Atlanta, the same in both the Fulton and the DeKalb parts of the city. On top of that, the state adds a flat $5 fee for each night until a stay reaches its 31st consecutive night. Airbnb says it collects and pays over Georgia state and local sales tax, that nightly state fee and locally imposed occupancy taxes, so a guest booking through the platform should already be paying all three. Take a booking off-platform and those filings land back with you, and the state returns are laid out step by step in the Georgia short-term rental tax guide.

Alongside the city's rules, one state law took effect on 1 July 2026, and whether it reaches you depends on who runs the place day to day. That's Georgia's Human Trafficking Prevention Training Act, signed in May as Act 519, which puts annual human-trafficking awareness training on third-party property managers. It also says outright that it doesn't apply to a rental the owner manages directly and exclusively, or to one offered for fewer than 15 days a year. Hand the unit to a management company, though, and the property comes under the Act. The manager then takes the training within 60 days and once a year after that, and the training records are kept until a year after each trained person leaves. Whoever owns, operates or manages the place also needs a policy for reporting suspected trafficking and has to meet the state's existing posting rule. If any of that is ignored willfully, the Attorney General's office can impose fines of $500, then $1,000, then $2,000, and that same office sets the training course.

The Act's own definition of a manager deserves a careful look, too, because it takes in anyone you pay to handle marketing, guest messages, check-ins, cleaning or maintenance for you. So if you pay even a cleaner, ask the Attorney General's office before you count on the owner-managed exemption.

Unfortunately for anyone who likes a settled rulebook, Atlanta's has been moving for years and still is. On 18 August 2025, for one, the council voted to rezone Home Park to bar new short-term rental permits there, exempting owners who already held one. Meanwhile a bill referred to committee in January 2026 would go much further, because under it you could license a permanent resident's primary residence and nothing else, and you'd have to be living in it for 275 days of the year or more. That same bill would also stop unhosted stays at 90 nights and make the platforms themselves hold permits and $1 million of liability cover. An older bill, held in committee in March 2025, pulls the other way on the cap, since it would scrap the limit on how many rentals one licensee can run while adding a 1,000-foot gap between single-family rentals and holding apartment complexes to 10% of their units. Neither bill has passed, though, going by the city's own short-term rental page, which still points at the 2021 ordinance as what governs today, so make sure you check it yourself before committing to this year's fee and this year's ceiling.

One more thing, and it matters to more readers than it sounds: everything in this section stops at the city boundary. Cross it and you're under a different license, a different fee and a different tax rate, whether that's Sandy Springs, Marietta or the unincorporated county land that holds so much of this market. So treat a house half a mile outside Atlanta as a separate piece of homework rather than a footnote to this one. BNBCalc keeps its own guides for Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Gwinnett counties, and whichever of those your address sits in, that's the one to read next.

Every form, affidavit, tax account and phone number sits in the Atlanta short-term rental regulation guide.

Where Do These Atlanta Airbnb Numbers Come From?

Licensing lives in that guide, while the earnings side of this article was built on BNBCalc Markets, which BNBCalc runs so you can size up a whole market before narrowing down to one street inside it. Open Atlanta there and it names the operators running listings across the market and shows how those listings perform, which reads rather differently once you know a single license stretches to two addresses. Look at who those operators are and how their homes are doing before you set a rate of your own, because theirs are the calendars you'll be competing with.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for an Atlanta Property?

Everything above comes from thousands of homes, and your money goes into exactly one of them. So how do you cross that gap?

Open the Atlanta market page first, because it carries this market's occupancy, revenue and month-by-month pattern as they stand today, and while Atlanta remains a maybe, the best Georgia markets by gross yield lines the city up beside everywhere else in the state. When a particular house reaches the table, put the asking price into BNBCalc along with your loan terms and the running costs you actually expect.

Three Atlanta facts should then survive contact with whatever it returns. The license leads, because if yours already covers a home you live in and one more unit, a third address inside the city has no legal route at all. The summer follows, since a World Cup June won't come round again, so price next year's nearer May's $268. Then there's the guest's side of the bill. Atlanta's 8% hotel-motel tax, the 8.9% sales tax and the $5 nightly fee all land on top of your rate, and together they quietly shape what a traveler will accept, even though none of it reaches your account. Past those three, don't build a plan on rates climbing like this again next year while occupancy is walking the other way.

Wherever you end up buying, the number worth trusting was never the headline the market posts. It's whatever is left of it once you subtract the rules you're allowed to operate under, the months you can't move and the people who got there before you.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Average Airbnb Income in Atlanta?

The median listing across the Atlanta market earned $24,559 over the twelve months BNBCalc measured for 2026, while listings within Atlanta's city line had a median of $25,938. A median is the listing in the middle, so a handful of big earners can't pull it up the way they pull up an average. The strongest quarter of the market starts at $36,456 a year, and two homes of identical size can finish far apart: a strong one-bedroom here takes in more than ten times what a weak one does.

Is Airbnb Still Profitable in Atlanta in 2026?

Yes for some buyers, with a ceiling attached, since Atlanta grants each host a single license covering the home they live in and one more unit. Across the past year the market's average nightly rate gained about 26%, occupancy gave up about 9% of its level (roughly three percentage points), and home prices held roughly level. Any individual property still turns on what it costs, how it's financed and what it takes to run.

What Is the Best Month for Airbnb in Atlanta?

The year's dearest month was June, at a $354 average nightly rate, with July next at $339, while occupancy stayed between 33% and 35% from March through July. February came cheapest at $228, and no month from November through February sold 30% of its nights. Eight FIFA World Cup matches were played in the city across that June and July of 2026, so neither month makes a normal baseline.

Do You Need a License to Run an Airbnb in Atlanta?

Yes. Every stay of 30 consecutive days or fewer needs a short-term rental license issued by Atlanta's Department of City Planning, on a non-refundable $150 application fee, lasting 12 months from the day it is granted and renewable each year. The city says to allow up to ten business days. Before applying, hosts must send certified mail to every adjacent property, name a short-term rental agent who is reachable at all times, and display the license number on each online listing.

How Many Short-Term Rentals Can One Owner Have in Atlanta?

Two. Under Section 20-1004 of the city code, a single license covers an owner or long-term tenant for their primary residence and one more unit, with no further permits, fees or zoning conditions attached. The primary residence has to be registered first, and the city states that a person can only have one primary residence, so the licenses cannot be stacked to cover a larger portfolio.

Can You Run an Atlanta Airbnb in a Home You Don't Live In?

One of them, yes. The second unit on a license does not have to be the host's home, but it only becomes available once the host's own primary residence is registered on that same license. There is no route under the current ordinance to license a third address inside the city. Rules outside the city limits are set separately by each county and municipality.

Which Atlanta Neighborhood Is Best for Short-Term Rentals?

That depends on the home and on where permits can still be had. Pine Hills and the neighborhood named Southwest post the highest medians in BNBCalc's 2026 data, but both rest on thin samples of large houses. Among well-sampled neighborhoods Home Park leads at a $47,325 median, although the council voted in August 2025 to close it to new permits, so North Buckhead, at $46,743, is the strongest one without that catch. Castleberry Hill shows the widest gap between its $37,179 median and an $87,203 75th percentile. All of these figures come from listings inside Atlanta's own neighborhood boundaries.

How Much Is the Airbnb Tax in Atlanta?

A guest staying in an Atlanta short-term rental pays the city's 8% hotel-motel tax on the rental charge, plus 8.9% combined state and local sales tax, which the Georgia Department of Revenue lists identically for the Fulton and DeKalb parts of the city, plus a flat $5 state fee for each night up to the 31st consecutive night. Airbnb states that it collects and pays over Georgia sales tax, the nightly state fee and locally imposed occupancy taxes.