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Gwinnett County, Georgia Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Gwinnett County short-term rental rules in 2026, including the four zoning standards in force now, the license arriving April 2027, and the 8% hotel tax.

Gwinnett County, Georgia

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Yes. In 2026 unincorporated Gwinnett County requires no short-term rental license at all, only zoning standards: no exterior signs, hard-surface parking, two adults per bedroom, and posted owner contact details. That changes on April 14, 2027, when an adopted ordinance brings annual licenses, biennial inspections and a local agent. Cities set their own rules.

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Do you own a place in Gwinnett County, Georgia and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and right now the county won't even ask you for a license to do it. Gwinnett said so itself in the questions and answers it published for bidders in May 2026, where it told vendors it "does not currently license or officially track the number of short-term rental units in Unincorporated Gwinnett County." So for the moment you're working inside four zoning standards and a tax bill. That really is all of it.

That window is closing on a date you can put in a calendar, though. At its April 14, 2026 business session the Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to write a new Short-Term Rental Ordinance into Article V of Chapter 74 of the county code, then gave everyone a full year before any of it bites, because the ordinance takes effect on April 14, 2027. From that morning a rental in unincorporated Gwinnett needs an annual license, a local agent living in Gwinnett or a county next door, and an interior property maintenance inspection every two years.

So let's walk through what that means for a Gwinnett host in 2026: the four rules already binding you, what the coming license will ask for, the three tax layers stacked on every booking, how Code Enforcement behaves today and how it's about to behave, and who to call when your situation doesn't fit the form. Every figure below comes from Gwinnett County's, Georgia's or a Gwinnett city's own documents, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't read the primary text I've said so instead of guessing. Assuming you're comparing a Gwinnett property against a market whose rules have already settled, run both through BNBCalc before you commit either way.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Gwinnett County, Georgia?

Two sets of rules sit on top of each other here, and telling them apart is most of the work. One binds you today, and the other doesn't bind anyone yet.

So start with the live one, which is zoning. Gwinnett rewrote its Unified Development Ordinance in a major update that took effect on January 1, 2024, and short-term rentals came out of it as a listed residential use carrying its own conditions. Those conditions live at Section 210-140.34 of Title 2, last amended October 28, 2025, and there are four of them:

  • No exterior evidence. Nothing about the outside of the property may show that it's being used as a short-term rental, which rules out signage and anything else a neighbor could read from the street.
  • Hard surfaces only for parking. Guests park on the driveway or the pad and nowhere else. The ordinance names what it's banning: the street, neighboring properties, the yard, and the right-of-way.
  • Two adults per bedroom. On top of that cap, the total number of occupants has to meet the UDO's own definition of family, so a four-bedroom house is not automatically an eight-person party rental.
  • Contact details posted by the door. The owner or the responsible property manager has to keep their contact information displayed at all times in a conspicuous spot near the primary entrance.

The same four standards repeat word for word at Section 212-50.10, which covers the mixed-use districts, so moving your money into a live-work unit doesn't move you out of them. The standards follow the use.

Now, what counts as short-term in the first place? Gwinnett's own Short-Term Rental Task Force report is blunt about it, since the term isn't defined in the UDO at all. What the county does instead is interpret it administratively, "as authorized by the Unified Development Ordinance," to mean a property rented out for a period of less than 30 days. The task force asked for 29 days or less to be written into the code, though until that happens the working line stays at 30 nights, which is where Georgia's tax rules and every metro Atlanta neighbor draw it too.

One scope point matters more than any of the standards, and it catches out-of-town buyers constantly, since everything above applies to unincorporated Gwinnett only. Code Enforcement says so in as many words on its own page, where it states that "We inspect properties within unincorporated Gwinnett County and do not address code violations within city limits." So Gwinnett's cities write their own short-term rental rules, and some of them are considerably heavier than the county's.

Take Snellville, which already runs a full licensing regime, and whose application packet charges $250 for a new applicant and $100 to renew, demands a named 24-hour local contact who signs the form personally, and asks for the square footage and egress-window dimensions of every bedroom. So do check your address against the county's parcel map before you read another word about county rules.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Gwinnett County

Since which side of a city line you sit on decides which rulebook you're under, that address check is genuinely step one rather than a formality. Once you know you're in unincorporated Gwinnett, the picture in front of you is unusually permissive for a metro county of this size. That won't last.

It's also a real market rather than a theoretical one. The task force counted 1,318 short-term rental listings in Gwinnett as of its January 2025 report, up 4.5% year on year, running an average daily rate of $174 and an average stay of three and a half days. Those are county-wide figures drawn from a third-party data provider, and they're the most recent official count anyone has published, because the county went on to tell bidders in May 2026 that it still doesn't track the number itself.

What the county does track is the money. Short-term rentals paid Gwinnett $1,882,669 in hotel/motel tax in 2024, which was 14% of the county's $13.6 million total. The year before that they paid $1,344,120, or 10%. Read those two numbers next to each other and you can see the argument the county has been having with itself, because the segment's contribution jumped 40% in a single year while generating the complaints that produced a task force. That tension is the whole reason a licensing ordinance exists.

Before you buy anything, be aware that the county's rules aren't the only rules on your property. The task force pushed owners to check "whether their property is subject to homeowners' association covenants that restrict or prevent the use of short-term rentals," and a covenant will beat a county permission every time, because it's a private contract that the county has no power to waive. Gwinnett's subdivisions are covenant-heavy. Read the ones on your deed before you read anything else.

If the neighboring counties are on your shortlist too, the contrast is worth having in front of you, since Gwinnett is currently the loosest of the four. Our Cobb County guide covers the certificate regime Gwinnett's own task force kept citing as its model, while the DeKalb County guide and the Fulton County guide cover the two counties most Gwinnett investors end up comparing against on price.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Gwinnett County

Cobb already makes you hold a certificate before you can operate one at all, which is part of why Gwinnett's task force kept pointing across the county line, and Gwinnett is now about to close that gap.

Today, though, there's nothing to apply for. No county license, no registration, no zoning application, no fee. Section 210-140.34 attaches as a conditional use standard, which in the UDO's own coding means the conditions simply apply to you rather than something you have to go and ask permission for. That's the position through the rest of 2026 and most of 2027.

From April 14, 2027, the county's own description of the ordinance it adopted sets out four obligations for short-term rental owners in unincorporated Gwinnett:

  • Obtain a short-term rental license annually. Not once, and not per owner. It renews every year, and Gwinnett has confirmed that if you don't plan to rent the property short-term in a given year you can let the license lapse and pick it up again later.
  • Designate a local agent who lives in Gwinnett or an adjacent county. That's a tighter ring than the task force asked for, since it had proposed allowing any of the fourteen Atlanta Regional Commission or bordering counties. The adopted version pulls it in to Gwinnett plus its immediate neighbors.
  • Obtain an interior property maintenance inspection every two years. The task force's recommendation was documentation from a certified third-party inspector confirming the home meets International Property Maintenance Code standards before a license is issued or renewed, and the county already applies that code to rental property generally.
  • Comply with the established operational requirements, which is where the parking, occupancy, signage and posted-contact standards you're already under get tied to something the county can take away.

The fee is the honest gap in all of this, and it isn't a fee the county sets. Gwinnett is contracting the whole program out, and it told bidders that "the only fee associated with this ordinance will be the short-term rental license fee," collected by the selected service provider as its compensation. The vendor keeps every cent of it with no revenue share back to the county, and proposals were scored so that the lowest per-license fee got the highest mark.

So the price of your license was settled by a sealed-bid competition that closed on May 21, 2026. As of July 2026, no award and no number have been published.

A few operational details are worth knowing now, because they shape how much lead time you'll get. Gwinnett asked the winning vendor to have the online application and payment portal live roughly three months early, ideally by January 14, 2027, so that owners can license before the deadline rather than on it.

Applicants are then promised a decision, a request for more information, or a denial within three business days, with the same clock restarting on a resubmission, while phone and email support runs 8:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays. Any denial, suspension or revocation has to be signed off by the county's Code Enforcement Division Director or a designee, so the vendor processes but doesn't judge.

One caveat on all of the above, stated plainly, because the enacted text of Article V of Chapter 74 isn't something I was able to read. Gwinnett's code sits behind a service that blocks automated access, the county hasn't posted the ordinance as a standalone document, and the Internet Archive wouldn't load for me during this research.

So everything in this section comes instead from the county's own procurement documents describing the ordinance it had just adopted, and from the commission minutes recording the vote. Treat the four obligations as reliable and the fine print as still unseen, then make sure you read the ordinance itself once Gwinnett publishes it.

Required Documents for Gwinnett County Short-Term Rentals

Since there's no application to file yet, the document list in 2026 is short enough to be surprising, and two of the three items on it are things you post rather than things you submit.

The first is that owner or manager contact card near the primary entrance, which the UDO already requires. The second is a Georgia posting obligation that a lot of hosts still haven't caught, and it arrived in the middle of this year.

Under SB 570, the Georgia Human Trafficking Prevention Training Act, effective July 1, 2026, every operator of a short-term rental property has to complete an approved human-trafficking-awareness training within 60 days of starting to operate and once a year after that, adopt a policy for reporting suspected trafficking, comply with the notice-posting requirement in O.C.G.A. § 16-5-47, and keep the training records for three years after they stop operating. Willful violations run $500, then $1,000, then $2,000. That one is statewide, it applies whether or not Gwinnett licenses you, and it's live now.

The third is your tax registration, which only bites if a platform isn't collecting on your behalf, so I'll come back to it in the tax section below.

Come April 2027, though, the file gets thicker, because the county's specification for its licensing vendor lists what the system has to hold on every licensed property, and it reads as a preview of the application form:

  • Your name, email, phone number and address.
  • Your local agent's name, email, phone number and address.
  • The location of the rental.
  • The location of any other short-term rental you own in Gwinnett.
  • Every code violation the department has passed along that could ground a denial, suspension or revocation.
  • All documents required with the application and with each renewal.

Two things in that list deserve a second look. The county is building a register that links a single owner to all of their Gwinnett properties, which is exactly the mechanism a "three strikes" enforcement model needs if it's going to work across a portfolio rather than one address at a time. And your violation history follows the license, so a bad year with Code Enforcement in 2027 is not something a renewal in 2028 forgets.

Keep in mind, too, that the inspection documentation is biennial rather than annual. The year you don't need an inspector is the year to fix whatever the last one flagged.

Gwinnett County Short-Term Rental Taxes

Paperwork aside, the layer that touches every single booking is tax, and a Gwinnett stay carries three separate charges on top of the rate you set.

ChargeRateCollected by
Georgia state and local sales tax6% combined in Gwinnett (4% state, plus two 1% local option taxes)Airbnb, Vrbo and other marketplace innkeepers
Georgia state hotel-motel fee$5.00 per night, first 30 nightsAirbnb, Vrbo and other marketplace innkeepers
Gwinnett County hotel/motel excise tax8% of rentPlatforms, or the host direct to Licensing and Revenue

So take them in order, starting with sales tax, which is set by the Georgia Department of Revenue's rate chart effective July 1, 2026. That chart lists Gwinnett as jurisdiction 067 at a combined 6%, which is the 4% state rate plus a penny each for the county's two local option sales taxes. Since short-term accommodation counts as a taxable retail sale in Georgia, that rate rides on the room charge like any other sale.

The hotel-motel fee is a flat charge rather than a percentage, and it's the one that quietly punishes cheap nightly rates. Georgia levies $5.00 per night on every accommodation rental, with no relationship to what the room costs, and it switches off once a guest hits 31 consecutive nights and becomes an extended stay. On a $174 Gwinnett average, five dollars is under 3% of the rate. On a $70 winter weeknight it's over 7%, so make sure you're modeling it as a fixed cost per night rather than folding it into a percentage.

Then there's the county's own charge, and this is where I'd urge caution about what you'll find online. Georgia's Department of Community Affairs collects every local hotel-motel rate on file and its statewide rate report puts Gwinnett County at 8%. The copy of the Gwinnett County Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax Ordinance still sitting on the county's own website was last revised in March 2009 and levies 7%, which is the pre-2018 figure. Watch out for that PDF, because it looks authoritative and it's out of date. Plan on the 8%.

Who ends up sending that money in depends on how you take bookings, though, since Georgia's rule for marketplace innkeepers puts the duty on any platform facilitating $100,000 or more of Georgia sales in the current or prior calendar year, and Airbnb and Vrbo clear that threshold statewide without difficulty. Airbnb's Georgia tax page confirms it collects the 4% state rate, the county and local sales tax, and the $5 hotel-motel fee for the first 30 days, then adds that "all locally imposed Occupancy Taxes will be collected on reservations in Georgia."

So book exclusively through those two and you generally have nothing to file. Take a direct booking through your own site, though, and the whole stack lands back on you. That means opening a Sales and Use Tax and Hotel-Motel Fee account through the Georgia Tax Center, then filing a return by the 20th of the following month, even in a month with nothing to report.

One question I couldn't settle from an official page is whether a short-term rental in unincorporated Gwinnett needs an Occupational Tax Certificate, the county's business license, which runs $80 plus $0.65 to $1.30 per $1,000 of gross revenue depending on classification. The Licensing and Revenue page doesn't mention short-term rentals at all, and the county says it doesn't license them today. Don't forget to ask Licensing and Revenue directly rather than assuming either way, and get the answer in writing.

Georgia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Gwinnett gets to write rules this freely for one reason, and it's a state-level one: Georgia has never passed a preemption statute for short-term rentals.

There's no statewide registry, no statewide permit, and no ceiling on what a city or county may require beyond what the constitution and general zoning law already impose. Zoning, occupancy caps, licensing and inspections are set by each of Georgia's 159 counties and their cities independently, which is why a drive of twenty minutes across metro Atlanta can take you through three unrelated regimes.

So our Georgia statewide guide maps how far apart those regimes have drifted, and the Athens-Clarke County guide covers a Georgia county that has run its own permit system for years, which is roughly where Gwinnett is heading.

The state does cap one thing, and it explains Gwinnett's 8%. Under O.C.G.A. § 48-13-51, a local government may levy up to 3% by simple ordinance, and anything above that needs a local Act of the General Assembly authorizing it, which is the route Gwinnett took when it raised its rate to fund the convention center expansion. So the county's hotel tax isn't something commissioners can move on a whim; it took the legislature to get there.

Two other state threads are worth tracking. SB 570's trafficking training, covered above, is the one live statewide duty that lands on you personally in 2026.

Then there's an untested wrinkle in O.C.G.A. § 36-74-30, part of the Local Government Code Enforcement Boards Act, which says that "in no event may a local government require the registration of residential rental property" under that Act. It sits inside the code-enforcement-board chapter rather than a general licensing chapter, though, and it hasn't stopped Georgia cities from running short-term rental permits under separate authority. No court decision or Attorney General opinion resolving it against a licensing ordinance turned up in this research, so treat it as a curiosity rather than a defense.

Does Gwinnett County Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Not proactively, no. Not yet. And the "yet" is doing an enormous amount of work in that sentence, because the enforcement model is the thing the new ordinance changes most.

Today, enforcement is complaint-driven and slow by design, so it starts when a neighbor files through GwinnettZIP.com, anonymously if they want to, and an officer comes out to inspect. From there Gwinnett's process opens with a courtesy notice aimed at voluntary compliance, and the county describes citations as "only as a final means to correct violations."

When it does get that far, a citation goes to Recorder's Court and can carry a fine of up to $1,000 and/or 60 days per violation. That's a real penalty. What it isn't is a penalty anybody applies to a listing you haven't been reported for, since nobody is out looking.

From April 2027, somebody will be looking, and continuously, because the county has contracted for a monitoring service whose job is to "actively monitor all major STR platforms online to identify STR locations within Gwinnett" and then check each one against the license register. An unlicensed match gets a phone call and a letter explaining the requirement, and thirty days of silence gets a second letter plus an escalation by email to Gwinnett County Code Enforcement.

On top of that, county staff get a map-based tool showing every licensed and unlicensed rental in unincorporated Gwinnett down to the parcel, with municipal boundaries and commission districts drawn on it, along with a monthly report covering complaint history and "multiple offender properties."

Remember that the license itself becomes the lever. The task force's fifth recommendation was to tie parking, occupancy and other code compliance directly to the license, and it suggested a "three strikes and you're out" model where repeat violations inside a year cost you the license.

It pointed at the neighbors for precedent, noting that Cobb assesses escalating minimum fines of $500 and $750 while Atlanta's minimum is $500, and that both revoke after three violations in a year with a one-year wait before a new license. The adopted ordinance does give staff the power to suspend and revoke, though whether it lands on exactly three strikes is one of the details in the text I couldn't read.

The practical read is simple. A quiet, well-parked, correctly occupied rental in unincorporated Gwinnett has a low chance of hearing from anybody, whereas a party house with cars on the verge has always been findable. After April 2027, so is a perfectly quiet house without a license.

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

Given that the rules split so sharply either side of one date, the order below matters more than it looks, because a few of these steps are cheaper to do now than to retrofit in 2027.

  1. Confirm whether your address is unincorporated. This decides everything downstream. A property inside Snellville, or any other Gwinnett city, follows that city's ordinance and not the county's, and some cities already license and charge.
  2. Read your HOA covenants and your deed restrictions. A covenant banning short-term rentals is enforceable regardless of what the county allows, and the county will not help you with it.
  3. Design the property around the four UDO standards. Enough hard-surface parking for the guest count you're advertising, no more than two adults per bedroom, nothing outside identifying the house as a rental, and a posted contact card by the front door.
  4. Complete your Georgia trafficking-awareness training within 60 days of your first booking, put a reporting policy in writing, post the § 16-5-47 notice, and diarize the annual refresher. Then keep the certificates.
  5. Set up tax before your first guest. If you're listing only through Airbnb or Vrbo, confirm on your payout breakdown that the state sales tax, the $5 nightly fee and the Gwinnett hotel tax are all being collected. If you're taking direct bookings, open a Georgia Tax Center account and calendar the 20th of every month.
  6. Line up your local agent now, not in 2027. They have to live in Gwinnett or an adjacent county, they'll be the name on the license, and good ones get booked up when a whole county needs them at once.
  7. Book a property maintenance inspection early. The county will want a biennial interior inspection against IPMC standards, and finding out in March 2027 that your egress windows are undersized is an expensive way to learn it.
  8. Watch for the licensing portal. Gwinnett wants it live around January 14, 2027, roughly three months before the deadline. Apply in that window rather than in the rush.
  9. Run the numbers before any of it. A license fee nobody has published yet, an inspection every two years and an agent on retainer are all real line items, so model them as costs rather than rounding errors.

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

Whichever of those steps you get stuck on, four offices cover almost all of it, and they all sit in the same building on Langley Drive.

Zoning, the UDO and the new ordinance

The Gwinnett County Department of Planning and Development owns the Unified Development Ordinance, the short-term rental standards inside it, and the new licensing program.

  • Address: Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046
  • Phone: 770.822.8000
  • Email: P&[email protected]
  • Online: zoning, permitting and inspections run through the county's ZIP Portal at GwinnettZIP.com

Complaints, violations and enforcement

Code Enforcement is a division of Planning and Development and handles property maintenance, parking, noise, zoning and unlicensed-business complaints in unincorporated Gwinnett only.

  • Main line: 770.513.5020
  • Hotline: 770.513.5004
  • Email: [email protected]
  • File a complaint: through GwinnettZIP.com, and the county allows it anonymously

Worth knowing in both directions: because complaints can be filed without leaving a name, a neighbor who dislikes your guests has a free and frictionless route to an inspection.

County tax and business licensing

The Licensing and Revenue Office administers the hotel/motel occupancy tax and the Occupational Tax Certificate.

  • Address: 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046
  • Phone: 678.377.4100
  • Email: P&[email protected]
  • Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm
  • Filing: hotel/motel excise tax is submitted through the county's Business Tax Portal

State tax

State sales tax and the $5 nightly hotel-motel fee belong to the Georgia Department of Revenue, not to Gwinnett. Registration and filing both run through the Georgia Tax Center, and the state hotel-motel fee FAQ answers most of what hosts ask before they call.

Your city, if you're inside one

Snellville's Planning and Development Department, for example, runs its short-term rental license from 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, GA 30078 on 770.985.3513. Every other Gwinnett city sets its own terms, so call the city clerk before you assume the county's rules are the ones governing you.

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

Those complaint routes are also where most of the local argument has played out, and it's worth being straight about what I can and can't tell you here. I haven't surveyed Reddit or BiggerPockets, and I'm not going to characterize threads I didn't read.

What Gwinnett does have, unusually, is a formal public record of resident sentiment, because its task force ran two advertised public forums and wrote up what came out of them. More than 30 residents turned up to the first in July 2024 and more than 50 to the second in November, and the eight issues the task force distilled from all of that are on the record.

Reading that list, the complaints cluster into a shape any host will recognize:

  • Absentee owners are the core grievance. Three of the eight issues are versions of the same complaint, that owners and managers can't be located when something goes wrong on site, and that corporate entities are hardest of all to serve with a citation. The local-agent requirement is the direct answer to that.
  • The friction is parking, noise and transience, not short-term rentals as a concept. Yard parking and on-street overflow come up by name, alongside large parties and the general sense of neighbors who change every weekend.
  • Nobody argued that short-term rentals price locals out. The task force examined it and said the opposite in its own report, calculating that a month in an average Gwinnett short-term rental would run $5,220 against an average $1,717 for a four-bedroom apartment, and concluding they aren't an affordable housing option in either direction. That's a notably different framing from the one driving policy in Atlanta or New York.
  • Nobody claimed enforcement was already tight. The recurring word in the report is accountability, and the recommendations are about creating a lever that doesn't currently exist.

My own read, and I'd offer it as a read rather than a finding, is that Gwinnett has been the metro Atlanta county where an operator could run a clean, boring, well-managed rental with almost no administrative overhead, and that's now on a clock.

The hosts I'd expect to feel the change hardest are the out-of-state owners with three or four Gwinnett doors and a remote cleaner, since the local agent, the inspection cycle and the per-property license all scale with the portfolio while the revenue per door doesn't. So if you're running one house you live near, the new regime is paperwork. Run six from another state and it's a business model question.

Either way, the honest thing to do is put a number on it before April 2027 rather than after, and the Georgia market data is the place to start, because a license, a biennial inspection and an agent on retainer are absorbable at some revenue levels and not at others.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a license to run an Airbnb in Gwinnett County, Georgia?

Not in 2026. Unincorporated Gwinnett County has no short-term rental license, registration or permit, and the county confirmed in May 2026 that it doesn't license or track short-term rentals at all. That changes on April 14, 2027, when an ordinance adopted on April 14, 2026 takes effect and requires an annual license, a local agent living in Gwinnett or an adjacent county, and an interior property maintenance inspection every two years. Cities inside Gwinnett, such as Snellville, already license separately.

What are the current short-term rental rules in unincorporated Gwinnett County?

Four standards, set out in Section 210-140.34 of the Unified Development Ordinance. There can be no exterior evidence that the home is used as a short-term rental. Outdoor parking is allowed only on hard surfaces on the property, never on the street, a neighbor's lot, the yard or the right-of-way. Occupancy is capped at two adults per bedroom, with the total meeting the UDO's definition of family. And the owner or responsible manager must post contact details in a conspicuous place near the primary entrance.

How much tax does a Gwinnett County short-term rental pay?

Three charges stack. Georgia state and local sales tax is 6% in Gwinnett, made up of the 4% state rate plus two local option taxes at a penny each. Georgia's state hotel-motel fee is a flat $5.00 per night for the first 30 nights. Gwinnett County's own hotel/motel excise tax is 8% of the rent. Airbnb and Vrbo collect and remit all three as marketplace innkeepers, so a host listing only through them typically files nothing.

How much does the Gwinnett County short-term rental license cost?

No published figure exists as of July 2026. Gwinnett is outsourcing the program, and the license fee is set by the vendor that won its contract rather than by the county, with the county keeping none of it. Bids closed on May 21, 2026 and were scored so that the lowest per-license fee ranked highest. For comparison, the city of Atlanta charges $150 a year and Snellville charges $250 for a new application and $100 to renew.

What happens if you break the short-term rental rules in Gwinnett County?

Enforcement runs through Code Enforcement, which covers unincorporated Gwinnett only and starts with a courtesy notice. Uncorrected violations go to Recorder's Court and can draw a fine of up to $1,000 and/or 60 days per violation. From April 2027, the county adds proactive monitoring of listing platforms, letters to unlicensed owners, escalation to Code Enforcement after 30 days of no response, and the power to suspend or revoke a license for repeat violations.

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

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