Is Airbnb & STR Profitable in San Diego in 2026?
Data dates 31 Aug 2026 – 20 Sep 2026; each figure shows its own
Short-term rental market data for San Diego, California from Mr. Props. Every figure shows where it came from, its period and how it was checked; a figure that fails its check stays off the page.
San Diego has 13,253 listings on Airbnb (Mr. Props data, 20 Sep 2026). 72.5% of San Diego listings had at least one review in the last year. 83.4% of San Diego listings are an entire home or apartment.
Headline metrics
Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026
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What the San Diego market is made of
Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026
Listing mix in San Diego
What the market is made of.
| Room type | Share of listings |
|---|---|
| Entire home or apartment | 83.4% |
| Private room | 14.1% |
| Hotel room | 2.1% |
| Shared room | 0.4% |
share of the 13,253 listings in the file
Listings by bedrooms
| Bedrooms | Bar | Share of listings |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or not listed | 7.6% | |
| 1 bedroom | 39.2% | |
| 2 bedrooms | 24.9% | |
| 3 bedrooms | 15.7% | |
| 4 bedrooms | 7.9% | |
| 5+ bedrooms | 4.7% |
share of the 13,253 listings in the file
Listings by minimum stay
| Minimum stay | Bar | Share of listings |
|---|---|---|
| 1-night minimum | 18.9% | |
| 2-night minimum | 36.5% | |
| 3–6-night minimum | 12.9% | |
| 7–29-night minimum | 1.4% | |
| 30+-night minimum | 29.7% | |
| Minimum not stated | 0.6% |
share of the 13,253 listings in the file
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Supply & competition in San Diego
Who hosts San Diego's Airbnb listings, by how many listings each host has.
Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026
Who runs the San Diego market
Listings by how many listings their host has in San Diego.
| Host size | Share of listings |
|---|---|
| Hosts with 1 listing | 32.6% |
| Hosts with 2–9 listings | 36.3% |
| Hosts with 10+ listings | 31.1% |
share of the 13,253 listings in the file
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Questions
San Diego short-term rental data FAQ
- How many Airbnb listings are there in San Diego?
- San Diego has 13,253 listings on Airbnb. Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026 · all listings in the file.
- How many San Diego Airbnb listings are actually active?
- 72.5% of San Diego listings had at least one review in the last year. Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026 · share of the 13,253 listings in the file with at least one review in the 12 months to 20 Sep 2026.
- Are San Diego Airbnb listings whole homes or private rooms?
- 83.4% of San Diego listings are an entire home or apartment. Counted from the public listings snapshot of 20 Sep 2026 · share of the 13,253 listings in the file.
- Where does Mr. Props get its San Diego data?
- Each figure on this page carries the date of the data behind it, the period it covers and how it was checked, and our Sources & licences page lists every source. The figures here come from Mr. Props data, by a direct count. A figure that has not passed our accuracy check is not shown at all.
Plain English
How we define these metrics
Definitions differ between data providers, so numbers only compare when the definitions match. Here are ours, exactly.
Listings on Airbnb
Every listing in the source file for the city, counted on the file's date, booked or not.
Listings reviewed in the last year
The share of those listings with at least one guest review in the year before the file's date.
Entire homes
The share of listings that rent a whole home or apartment rather than a room.
Room type
How each listing is offered: a whole home or apartment, a private room, a hotel room or a shared room.
Bedrooms
The bedroom count the host lists. The source records a studio and a listing with no count the same way, so they are counted together.
Minimum stay
The shortest booking a listing accepts, as its host set it in the source file.
Host size
Listings grouped by how many listings their host has in the same city's file.
Accuracy
How accurate is our data
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- A figure is checked against its own method before it goes on the page, and the page says where it came from, the period it covers and how it was checked.
- The method is written down before any comparison is made, and it is never adjusted towards another provider's number.
- A figure that fails its check stays off the page, so the page never shows a number we do not stand behind.
- Where providers define a measure differently, the definition we use is named beside the figure it affects.
- The full accuracy write-up lives on its own page, linked here once it is published.
Trust
Why you can trust these figures
Built from records we keep
Short-term figures are built from listing-level records that we keep, so a short-term figure traces back to the listings behind it. Where long-term rent is shown, it comes from a published rent index rather than from anything we measured, and the page says so beside it.
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We leave out what we cannot measure
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Sources
Sources: data aggregated by Mr. Props from multiple public data sources and our own internal data, then checked against our published methods.
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