Tony Wang11 min readAmerica's Airbnb Supply: 1.23M Listings, 171,840 Hosts
We counted 1,231,344 US Airbnb listings and their hosts. Superhost rates run 10.6% to 28% by metro, and vacation towns carry twice the listings per host.
The United States is the largest Airbnb market on earth, and almost everything published about it is an estimate. Occupancy models, revenue projections, market scores — all inferred from samples, all behind a paywall, all unfalsifiable from the outside. We took the opposite approach and counted what's publicly visible: 1,231,344 distinct US listings and the 171,840 hosts holding them, observed logged-out and published as market rollups.
That trade is real, and worth stating before the numbers: we can tell you exactly how American Airbnb supply is structured and nothing about how well it books.
Who holds American Airbnb supply
The national average is 1.6 listings per host — which sounds like the spare-room platform Airbnb still describes itself as. The metro-level numbers say that average is hiding two different businesses:
Savannah's 435 identified hosts hold 5,193 listings. Orlando's 1,924 hold 21,712 — the largest labelled market in the country, and the one where the professional-operator pattern is clearest. Both are exactly the metros our Airbnb-versus-housing study found have more Airbnb listings than homes for sale (Savannah 1.80×, Orlando 1.65×), and the two findings fit together: these aren't housing units diverted from residents, they're purpose-built vacation-rental stock operated at scale.
We can only report this for five markets — host enrichment isn't broad enough elsewhere to be honest about — which is itself the reason host concentration is under-covered in STR research generally. It's the hardest field to get and the most load-bearing for policy.
The Superhost rate has a 2.6× spread, and price doesn't explain it
Seattle runs 28.0% Superhost against Miami's 10.6%. The tempting explanation is price — expensive markets attract professionals — and it doesn't survive contact with the table. Miami is one of the pricier markets at a $245 median and sits last. Atlanta is the cheapest market at $159 and sits second-to-last. Palm Springs is the most expensive at $380 and lands mid-pack at 19.1%.
What the top of the chart shares is review depth. Seattle averages 142.0 reviews per listing, the highest of any US market we measured; San Francisco averages 129.1 and Tijuana — before we dropped it — 109.7. The bottom of the chart is where listings are young: Orlando averages 37.3 reviews, Houston 39.2, Gatlinburg 40.2. Superhost status is a function of operating history, so a market full of new listings mechanically posts a low rate regardless of how good those listings are. It measures market age, not host quality.
This is the same effect that makes London look like it has a quality problem in our UK market study — worth internalising if you're comparing Superhost rates across markets, because the number is telling you when the market was built, not how well it's run.
Prices span 2.4× and predict remarkably little
Show the full 24-market US table (listings, median price, Superhost rate, rating, review depth)
| Market | Listings | Median list price | Superhost | Avg rating | Avg reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando, FL | 21,712 | $212.40 | 14.4% | 4.35★ | 37.3 |
| Miami, FL | 10,107 | $245.36 | 10.6% | 4.39★ | 57.4 |
| Palm Springs, CA | 7,535 | $380.43 | 19.1% | 4.64★ | 70.1 |
| Savannah, GA | 5,193 | $193.33 | 18.6% | 4.51★ | 57.2 |
| Gatlinburg, TN | 4,077 | $292.80 | 17.5% | 4.44★ | 40.2 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 3,995 | $240.32 | 16.4% | 4.55★ | 61.2 |
| Las Vegas, NV | 3,832 | $235.25 | 16.0% | 4.07★ | 52.3 |
| New York, NY | 3,600 | $193.06 | 15.3% | 4.52★ | 83.0 |
| Honolulu, HI | 3,233 | $290.24 | 17.3% | 4.54★ | 66.3 |
| San Diego, CA | 2,979 | $242.54 | 19.6% | 4.66★ | 87.7 |
| Nashville, TN | 2,648 | $191.40 | 24.3% | 4.70★ | 95.9 |
| Charleston, SC | 2,343 | $267.65 | 22.8% | 4.63★ | 68.3 |
| Austin, TX | 2,040 | $243.60 | 23.7% | 4.53★ | 78.4 |
| Atlanta, GA | 1,706 | $159.23 | 12.5% | 4.41★ | 77.3 |
| New Orleans, LA | 1,699 | $171.13 | 25.3% | 4.60★ | 83.4 |
| Washington, DC | 1,634 | $145.12 | 15.2% | 4.49★ | 85.4 |
| San Jose, CA | 1,461 | $219.94 | 20.3% | 4.73★ | 100.6 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1,415 | $182.93 | 26.6% | 4.78★ | 89.8 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,083 | $193.04 | 15.4% | 4.56★ | 44.9 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | 1,064 | $298.20 | 17.9% | 4.47★ | 55.7 |
| Houston, TX | 1,021 | $188.67 | 16.6% | 4.51★ | 39.2 |
| San Francisco, CA | 1,014 | $210.97 | 15.2% | 4.30★ | 129.1 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 959 | $149.40 | 17.5% | 4.57★ | 66.5 |
| Seattle, WA | 892 | $216.61 | 28.0% | 4.81★ | 142.0 |
Palm Springs $380, Atlanta $159 — a 2.4× spread across named US markets, and the ordering has little to do with the cost of the underlying cities. The expensive end is desert-resort and mountain-cabin stock (Palm Springs $380, Scottsdale $298, Gatlinburg $293, Honolulu $290): whole properties, high capacity, sold by the weekend. Palm Springs listings sleep 9.81 people on average. The cheap end is big-city apartment stock — Washington DC $145, Philadelphia $149, Atlanta $159 — where an Airbnb competes with a hotel room rather than with a resort.
New York at $193 is the number most people get wrong. It's cheaper than Las Vegas, cheaper than Orlando, and barely above Nashville — because Local Law 18 left a small, rule-compliant market of mostly modest rooms rather than the whole-apartment inventory that used to define it.
The rating column is nearly useless for discrimination, which is a finding in itself: 4.07★ to 4.81★ across every market in a country of 1.2M listings. Airbnb ratings compress so hard at the top that a market averaging 4.30★ — San Francisco, the worst large market here — is not meaningfully "bad." Our global supply map found 89.5% of all rated listings worldwide sit at 4.5★ or above. A 4.3★ market is in the bottom decile of a distribution with no bottom.
What this means if you work on US short-term rentals
For investors, the Superhost and review-depth columns are the ones to read as market age. A market like Orlando — huge, professional, low Superhost, 37 reviews per listing — is a market still absorbing new supply. Seattle at 142 reviews and 28% Superhost is a market that has finished being built. Those are different entry propositions and the price column won't tell you which is which.
For city and county regulators, the Savannah and Orlando concentration figures are the practical number: at 2.5 listings per identified host, "hosts" and "operators" have stopped being the same word, and a policy written for the former lands on the latter. Our figure is a floor, so the real concentration is worse.
For anyone building on this data, the honest summary is that the public Airbnb surface gives you supply structure cleanly and demand not at all. That's a real limit. It's also why we'd rather hand you the query than the conclusion — the Airbnb Markets dataset exposes country, market, admin1, review bands, rating bands and Superhost filters over one REST API, and every number in this post is reproducible in a call or two.
Query the US Airbnb market yourself
1.23M US listings, 7.85M worldwide — supply, prices, ratings, review bands, host counts and Superhost rates as aggregate market rollups over one REST API. 2,000 free credits a month.
Frequently asked questions
How many Airbnb listings are there in the United States?
1,231,344 distinct listings held by 171,840 identified hosts, in Crawlora's July 2026 logged-out census of public listings — the largest national market in a 7.85M-listing global census, or roughly 16% of Airbnb's worldwide supply.
How many Airbnb listings does the average US host have?
1.6 listings per host nationally, but vacation markets run far higher: Savannah's 435 identified hosts hold 5,193 listings (2.58 each) and Orlando's 1,924 hold 21,712 (2.45 each). This is a floor rather than a ceiling — a host operating under several accounts counts as several hosts, so real concentration is higher.
Which US city has the highest Superhost rate?
Seattle at 28.0%, followed by Jacksonville (26.6%), New Orleans (25.3%) and Nashville (24.3%). Miami is lowest at 10.6%, with Atlanta at 12.5% and Orlando at 14.4%. The spread tracks market maturity rather than price — Superhost requires a sustained booking history, so markets full of newer listings post low rates regardless of listing quality.
What is the median Airbnb price in the US?
$240 a night across the 84,720 US listings with a captured USD-denominated rate — an asking price, not a booked rate. Across named markets the spread is 2.4×, from Palm Springs at $380 down to Atlanta at $159. The expensive end is resort and cabin stock sold by the weekend; the cheap end is big-city apartments competing with hotel rooms.
Why is New York's median Airbnb price lower than Las Vegas or Orlando?
New York's $193 median reflects what Local Law 18 left behind: a small, rule-compliant market of mostly modest rooms rather than the whole-apartment inventory that used to define the city. Only 3,600 listings carry a New York market label, against 21,712 in Orlando.
Does Crawlora publish Airbnb occupancy, ADR or RevPAR?
No. Those are demand-side metrics requiring booking data that isn't publicly observable, and Airbnb gates per-night pricing behind a bot-protected call. Crawlora publishes only what it observes: supply, list prices, ratings, review counts, Superhost status and host concentration.