Las Vegas, Nevada Airbnb Market Data 2026

How much does a Las Vegas Airbnb earn in 2026, and is it even legal to rent one out by the night if you won't be living in it?

Well, I'd start with the second question, because in this market the answer depends on which government your address falls under, and for most listings that isn't the City of Las Vegas. About three-quarters of the listings BNBCalc tracks here sit in unincorporated Clark County, in towns like Paradise, Spring Valley and Enterprise, and the county hasn't taken a short-term rental license application since August 2023. A federal judge has barred the county from enforcing that license rule while a lawsuit runs, but unfortunately that order only lasts until the case is decided, and it doesn't hand anyone a license. Inside the city limits there's a license to apply for, but the City of Las Vegas only grants one for a home whose owner lives there during each guest's entire stay.

If you can clear that bar, you'd be joining a market that thinned out and got pricier over the past year. The market runs from Henderson and North Las Vegas out to Mesquite and Pahrump, and across all of it, active listings fell about 8% from one year to the next, while the average nightly rate climbed about 16% even though occupancy slipped. I'm covering Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Clark County valley around it, where the city, its neighboring cities and the county each write their own short-term rental rules.

How Much Do Las Vegas Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

I expected size to decide most of the money here, and it doesn't, because in BNBCalc's figures by bedroom count a top-of-range one-bedroom out-earns a typical three-bedroom. I'd put a lot of that gap down to where a unit sits and how it's priced and run.

On gross yield, the sizes bunch up far more than they do on revenue. Homes with four or more bedrooms come out on top, while one- to three-bedrooms land within about two points of each other, and studios return roughly half of what those middle sizes manage. That matters in Las Vegas, because the city caps a licensed short-term rental at three bedrooms, counting the one the owner sleeps in.

And who's on the other side of your pricing? A large share of what's listed here is run by professional hosts, and the average stay lasts well under a week, which means frequent turnovers and a cleaning schedule you'll want sorted before the first booking.

BNBCalc's highest-performing listings, the ones it groups as its top performance tier, average roughly 2.6 times what the market's average listing takes in. I'd treat that as a ceiling to aim at, never a number to budget on.

Is the Las Vegas Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

That ceiling sits on a market that changed shape over the past year, and the listing count is where the change starts.

Metric	Year-over-year change
Average nightly rate	+16%
Booking lead time	Down
Purchase price	−1%
Occupancy	−5%
Active supply	−8%

BNBCalc data across all listings BNBCalc tracks in the market, September 2025 to August 2026 compared with September 2024 to August 2025, rounded to the nearest whole percent. Every row is averaged independently, so the rows won't multiply out, and the purchase price row reflects home values rather than rentals. Booking lead time shows only its direction, since the size of that change isn't firm, and any measure whose direction this year's data can't pin down is left out.

No, Las Vegas isn't oversaturated on this year's numbers, since active supply fell about 8% and fewer listings were competing for bookings. What surprised me is that occupancy still slipped about 5% even as guests paid about 16% more a night, and I have no way to tell from this data whether higher prices cost some bookings or softer demand pushed hosts to lean on price.

Either way, the listings that stayed didn't pick up the nights the others gave up, so whatever's holding occupancy back, it isn't a crowd of new hosts.

Still, I wouldn't bank on the rate rise repeating, because it came with fewer competitors and a softer calendar, so I'd underwrite a purchase at the rates guests pay now rather than hoping for another jump.

When Is Las Vegas's Peak Airbnb Season?

A year's average blends very different months, and in the latest twelve Las Vegas's peak season was spring, from March through May.

Month	Occupancy	Avg nightly rate
Sep 2025	33%	$309
Oct 2025	39%	$335
Nov 2025	35%	$338
Dec 2025	35%	$334
Jan 2026	35%	$322
Feb 2026	31%	$300
Mar 2026	41%	$327
Apr 2026	38%	$333
May 2026	38%	$392
Jun 2026	31%	$319
Jul 2026	35%	$337
Aug 2026	26%	$316

BNBCalc market data across all listings in the market, one row per month from September 2025 to August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are each averaged on their own, so the two columns aren't meant to be multiplied together.

May charged the year's highest average nightly rate, $392, well clear of every other month, whereas August had the emptiest calendar, with only about 26% of its nights booked. May wasn't alone, though, because March filled more of its nights than any other month, about 41%, at $327 a night. So if your budget treats every month as an average one, you'll run behind most in February, September, August and June, which had the year's four lowest nightly rates, and none of them filled even a third of its nights.

Is summer the peak, then? Not in Las Vegas, where June and August had two of the year's three lowest occupancy rates, although July bounced back to about 35% of nights booked.

Be careful with that calendar, though, because a good part of spring's edge comes from one month's pricing, May's $392 against about $330 across the whole year, so I wouldn't build a plan that depends on spring staying on top.

Within each week, the pattern is simpler. In BNBCalc's all-listing figures for the same period, Saturdays book 32% more nights than a typical day and Fridays 29% more, while Mondays and Tuesdays trail by 22% and 23%. Nightly rates rise on those same weekend nights, but by only a bit more than half as much, reaching about 20% above average on Fridays and Saturdays. I'd read that as room to push weekend pricing harder before you cut anything midweek.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Las Vegas?

Weekend pricing only goes so far, though, because where the home sits decides both what it can earn and whether it can be licensed, so in Las Vegas the first thing to check is which government it answers to.

I wouldn't lean on the mailing address for that. Caesars Palace has a Las Vegas address, yet the Census places it in Paradise, an unincorporated town governed by Clark County, and nearly half of this market's listings sit in Paradise alone. Only about one in twelve sits inside the City of Las Vegas, and Henderson and North Las Vegas hold roughly 7% each.

Because the rules follow those lines, I mapped each measurable listing to its Census place and ranked the places with the most listings by median annual revenue.

Rank	Place	Rules set by	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	75th-percentile revenue
1	Henderson	City of Henderson	$47,159	$388	34%	$66,147
2	North Las Vegas	City of North Las Vegas	$42,161	$363	35%	$69,733
3	Enterprise	Clark County	$36,030	$345	30%	$53,143
4	Las Vegas	City of Las Vegas	$33,542	$317	32%	$49,611
5	Paradise	Clark County	$33,490	$269	36%	$45,933
6	Spring Valley	Clark County	$32,995	$314	32%	$49,020
7	Winchester	Clark County	$27,352	$255	34%	$45,864
8	Mesquite	City of Mesquite	$20,936	$237	26%	$34,602
9	Sunrise Manor	Clark County	$19,009	$189	30%	$29,473

BNBCalc 2026 listing data inside US Census place boundaries (cities, plus Census-designated places for unincorporated towns), trailing twelve months. The first three figures are medians and the last is the 75th percentile, the level a place's top quarter of listings clears. No column is derived from another, and the unincorporated towns follow Census lines rather than the county's own town boundaries.

Those occupancy medians describe the middle listing in each place, so they're for comparing one place with another rather than for setting beside the market-wide monthly figures.

Does that make Henderson and North Las Vegas the places to buy? I wouldn't read the top two rows that way. The typical listing in each of them has four bedrooms, while the typical Paradise listing has one, so I'd bet much of that difference comes down to house size.

Once I lined up homes of the same size, most of Henderson's lead over Paradise disappeared. Among two-bedrooms, Paradise's median of $35,096 beats Henderson's $29,542, although Paradise's two-bedrooms include a much larger share of hotel-style units, so I wouldn't read that as a Paradise house out-earning one in Henderson. Among three-bedrooms, Henderson leads at $42,086, with Paradise at $39,754 and the City of Las Vegas at $39,392 close behind. Those three places answer to three different rulebooks, so I think the rules could matter more to your choice than any of these medians.

What I like about Paradise is that it posts the best median occupancy in the table, 36%, though it gets there with the lowest nightly rate of the top six. Enterprise shows the opposite trade, charging a $345 median rate while filling a median of only 30% of its nights. Mesquite, meanwhile, sits far out at the edge of the market and posts the lowest median occupancy in the table at 26%.

Keep in mind that a listing showing up in this data doesn't prove it holds a license, so don't take a busy street as a sign that the next house can get one.

For an area-by-area take on the Strip, Summerlin and Henderson, BNBCalc's Las Vegas investing guide covers the side a table can't. It dates from 2024, though, so I'd look hard at any Summerlin pick, since the City of Las Vegas doesn't allow short-term rentals in its Summerlin master-planned areas.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Las Vegas?

Once you've settled where to look, one feature inside the home pulls ahead of everything else.

In BNBCalc's current amenity model, a pool adds about 32% to a Las Vegas listing's revenue, and no other amenity's lift appears in full on the public Las Vegas page. That lift holds up across most sizes when you split it by bedroom count, at about 36% for one-bedrooms, 24% for three-bedrooms and 27% for four-plus-bedroom homes.

Two-bedrooms break the pattern, though, because at that size the model ranks an EV charger ahead of the pool, a figure I'll leave to BNBCalc Markets. So is a pool worth chasing? If you're choosing between two otherwise similar houses, it's where I'd start, as long as its upkeep fits your numbers.

The model also picks up a revenue signal from a gym, a hot tub, a barbecue, a sauna, internet, a TV, bicycles and allowing pets, and their Las Vegas percentages are gated the same way. A few basics aren't in the model at all, since BNBCalc treats them as standard in any rental rather than something an owner chooses to add.

Is Airbnb Legal in Las Vegas?

Yes, because Nevada law doesn't let a city or Clark County ban short-term rentals outright, but whether you can host legally depends on which rulebook your address falls under and whether that one is taking applications.

Start with the jurisdiction, because a Las Vegas mailing address doesn't settle it, as Caesars Palace shows. Clark County's business license site has a "Which Jurisdiction Am I In?" link for exactly this, and make sure you check it before you make an offer.

Inside the City of Las Vegas, both the city's 2026 application instructions and its one-page summary say a new short-term rental license requires the owner to live on the property for the whole of every guest's stay, and the home can have three bedrooms at most, the owner's included. It must also be at least 660 feet from the nearest other short-term rental, plus 2,500 feet from any resort hotel, in a zone where the city permits the use, and if there's a homeowners association, you'll need its written permission. The city doesn't allow short-term rentals at all in several master-planned areas, including Summerlin, Sun City Summerlin, Skye Canyon and Symphony Park.

Getting licensed there takes three steps: a conditional use verification from Planning, which carries no fee, then a home inspection by Code Enforcement, and then the business license itself. That license costs $500 a year, the person applying has to be the property owner, and you'll need at least $500,000 in liability insurance. You can't rent the home until the whole process is complete.

In unincorporated Clark County, where most of this market's listings are, a separate law applies. Chapter 7.100 of the county code requires a license for any stay of 30 consecutive days or less. It also keeps licensed rentals 1,000 feet apart and 2,500 feet from resort hotels, and it caps licenses at 1% of the eligible housing in each unincorporated area. Unfortunately you can't apply, because the county stopped taking applications after August 21, 2023, and when I checked in mid-September 2026, its short-term rental page still said late applications aren't being considered. The federal court's order cites 174 licenses issued as of March 2025.

On December 17, 2025, that court, the US District Court for Nevada, barred enforcement of the county's license requirement and several of its enforcement provisions until the case is decided. The judge found the owners were likely to win their due process claim, so the county voted in January 2026 to appeal, and the Ninth Circuit heard that appeal on September 14, 2026 without ruling that day.

Meanwhile, in August 2026 the commissioners approved an ordinance that stops booking platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo from processing reservations for unlicensed rentals in the unincorporated county. So I'd treat the injunction as a temporary order that an appeals court could undo, and I wouldn't buy in Paradise or Spring Valley counting on it to last. BNBCalc's Clark County short-term rental guide follows the case in more detail.

Henderson and North Las Vegas each have separate programs. Henderson requires owners to register each short-term vacation rental with the city every year, whereas North Las Vegas requires an approved conditional use permit before you can apply for a business license. If Henderson is on your list, BNBCalc's Henderson short-term rental guide is the place I'd begin.

The guest pays the lodging tax on top of your price, so your nightly rate stays whole. In the City of Las Vegas the room tax is 13%, or 13.38% inside the Primary Gaming Corridor near the Strip, and the city says to charge it as a separate line. In unincorporated Clark County the combined rate runs from 10.5% to 13.38%, depending on where the property sits. Either way, Airbnb's Nevada tax page says it collects the tax on bookings in both. Don't forget, though, that the city still expects a licensed host to file a room tax report every month, even when a platform has already paid it.

You'll find the city's application steps, required documents and phone numbers in BNBCalc's Las Vegas short-term rental regulation guide.

Where Do These Las Vegas Airbnb Numbers Come From?

That guide walks through the paperwork, whereas the market trends and monthly figures I've quoted were pulled from BNBCalc Markets, which exists so investors can weigh one short-term rental market against another before picking where to buy. When you open Las Vegas there, a revenue heatmap sits across the listing map, so you can see at a glance how much earnings shift from one part of the valley to the next. With the rules changing at every city line too, I'd hold that map up against the jurisdiction before an address makes your shortlist.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Las Vegas Property?

Valley-wide medians can't price the house you're looking at, so where do you go from here?

I'd open the Las Vegas market page first, since it shows the whole market's current revenue, occupancy and month-by-month seasonality, and if you haven't picked a city yet, the best Nevada markets by gross yield shows where Las Vegas ranks in the state. Once a real address is on the table, plug its purchase price, loan terms and operating costs into BNBCalc for a property-level estimate.

That estimate still needs a reality check against how Las Vegas works. For me the jurisdiction comes first, because in the City of Las Vegas you'd have to live there during every stay, and in unincorporated Clark County there's currently no license to apply for. August comes next, since only about a quarter of its nights got booked. You'll also want to remember that the lodging tax, anywhere from 10.5% to 13.38% by location, sits on top of your rate on the guest's bill. And don't count on rates to keep climbing, since this year's rise of about 16% came while occupancy slipped. If you want to know which way bookings are heading after you buy, recheck the occupancy of a handful of listings like yours every few months.

When a court order rather than a license decides who's operating, a market's averages include hosts whose footing could change with a single ruling, so the number worth trusting is the one you'd still earn if the rules snapped back.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Average Airbnb Income in Las Vegas?

The median listing across the Las Vegas market earned $33,756 in the twelve months covered by BNBCalc's 2026 listing data. Income varies widely with location: among three-bedroom homes, Henderson's median was $42,086 and Spring Valley's was $30,346. Listings in BNBCalc's top performance tier average roughly 2.6 times what the market's average listing takes in.

Is Airbnb Still Profitable in Las Vegas in 2026?

It can be, for hosts who can legally operate. Across all listings from September 2025 to August 2026, active supply fell about 8% and occupancy fell about 5%, while the average nightly rate climbed about 16%, compared with the previous 12 months. Profit on any single property comes down to what you pay for it, what it costs to run, and whether its jurisdiction will license it.

What Is the Best Month for Airbnb in Las Vegas?

Spring is the strongest stretch. Across all listings, March 2026 had the year's highest occupancy at 41%, at a $327 average nightly rate, and May 2026 had the highest average nightly rate, $392. August 2026 had the lowest occupancy, about 26%, and February 2026 the lowest average nightly rate, $300. Saturday and Friday nights book best.

Do You Have to Live in Your Las Vegas Airbnb?

In the City of Las Vegas, yes. A new short-term rental license requires the owner to live on the property throughout each guest's stay, in a home of three bedrooms at most, the owner's included. Unincorporated Clark County, Henderson and North Las Vegas have separate rules, so the requirement depends on which government covers the address.

Can You Get a Short-Term Rental License in Clark County?

Not currently in unincorporated Clark County. The county stopped taking applications after August 21, 2023, and it isn't considering late ones. A federal court blocked enforcement of the license requirement on December 17, 2025, pending a final decision, and the county's appeal was argued before the Ninth Circuit on September 14, 2026. The City of Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas license rentals under their own programs.

Which Part of the Las Vegas Valley Earns the Most on Airbnb?

Henderson had the highest median annual revenue among the valley's largest places at $47,159, followed by North Las Vegas at $42,161, but the typical listing in both has four bedrooms. Among two-bedrooms, Paradise led Henderson, $35,096 to $29,542, though a much larger share of Paradise's two-bedrooms are hotel-style units. Figures are 2026 medians within Census place boundaries, from BNBCalc listing data.

How Much Is the Airbnb Tax in Las Vegas?

Guests pay a room tax of 13% in the City of Las Vegas, or 13.38% inside the Primary Gaming Corridor, charged as a separate line on top of the booking. In unincorporated Clark County the combined transient lodging tax runs from 10.5% to 13.38% depending on location. Airbnb collects the tax on its bookings in both, and licensed City of Las Vegas hosts still file a monthly room tax report.