Short-Term Rentals in Los Angeles, by the Numbers
As of September 2026, the City of Los Angeles had about 21,700 active short-term-rental listings, and more than half of them, 56.9%, showed no home-sharing registration number.
The total has fallen 5.2% across the four quarters we have tracked, and the whole of that net fall is accounted for by listings with no registration number: those dropped by 1,278 while the total dropped by 1,190 and registered listings stayed roughly where they were.
A blank registration field is a strong signal that a listing may not be properly permitted. It is not proof that any particular one is in violation, and this page never reports it as one.
- 21,687
- Short-term rental listings
- 56.9%
- Show no registration number
- 31.5%
- Registered under the Home-Sharing Ordinance
- 11.0%
- Claim an exemption
- -5.2%
- Change since December 2025
City of Los Angeles, September 2026
12,337 listings
6,832 listings
2,387 listings
Down from 22,877
The market is shrinking, led by unregistered listings
Across the four quarters we have tracked, City-of-LA listings went from 22,877 in December 2025 to 21,687 in September 2026, a fall of 5.2%.
It is not a straight line, and the chart below shows why that matters: the count rose slightly to a peak of 23,212 in March 2026 before falling in both of the quarters after it. The net figure over the period is the honest one to quote, and anybody citing a trend from a single pair of quarters would get a different answer depending on which pair they picked.
Split by registration status, almost the entire movement is in one of the three buckets:
- No registration shown: 13,615 to 12,337, -9.4%.
- Registered under the Home-Sharing Ordinance: 6,861 to 6,832, -0.4%, which is roughly flat.
- Claiming an exemption: 2,311 to 2,387, +3.3%.
Unregistered listings fell by 1,278 while the city's total fell by 1,190. The decline is therefore not merely concentrated in unregistered listings, it is larger than the decline itself: registered listings barely moved and exempt listings went up, so the two of them offset part of the fall. Somebody who wants one sentence for it can say that every net listing the City of LA lost over this period was one with no registration number on it.
What this data cannot tell you is why. Enforcement, platform policy, the end of a seasonal run and hosts simply giving up all look identical in a count of listings, and this page does not guess between them.
- No registration shown
- Registered (HSR)
- Claims an exemption
| Snapshot | No registration shown | Registered (HSR) | Claims an exemption |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 13,615 | 6,861 | 2,311 |
| Mar 2026 | 13,828 | 6,964 | 2,318 |
| Jun 2026 | 12,391 | 6,914 | 2,356 |
| Sep 2026 | 12,337 | 6,832 | 2,387 |
Registered, exempt, or neither: how to read the registration field
Every listing on Airbnb in the City of Los Angeles carries a registration field, and the city requires a host to display their Home-Sharing Registration number in it. What is in that field is what this page counts, and it falls into three groups:
- Registered: the listing shows a Home-Sharing Registration (HSR) number.
- Exempt: the listing claims an exemption from registration, which covers licensed hotel-type uses among others.
- No registration shown: the field is blank.
A small remainder sits in none of the three. In September 2026 that is 131 listings, 0.6% of the city's total, carrying other values such as "pending". They are counted in the city total and excluded from the three buckets rather than quietly folded into one of them, because adding them to "no registration shown" would inflate the figure this page leads with and adding them to "registered" would deflate it.
The important part, and the reason the wording on this page is careful: "no registration number shown" is a strong signal a listing may not be properly permitted, but it is not proof that each one is in violation. A host could be registered and simply not have entered the number, and some listings sit inactive. The city does require the number to be displayed, so a blank is at least a red flag. We report these as listings showing no registration number, not as listings in violation, and anybody quoting the figure should do the same.
If what you want is the answer for one specific property rather than the citywide picture, that is a different question and we have a tool for it: can I Airbnb this address? checks the address against the city boundary and the rent stabilization list. The rules themselves, what registration costs and what sits on top of it, are on short-term rental permits in Los Angeles, and what the city can do about a listing without one is on fines and enforcement for unregistered short-term rentals.
By neighborhood
The city's listings are spread across 113 neighborhoods, using the LA Times "Mapping L.A." boundaries. The largest concentrations in September 2026:
- Hollywood: 1,635
- Venice: 1,491
- Downtown: 1,065
- Exposition Park: 923
- Hollywood Hills West: 659
- Hollywood Hills: 657
- Mid-City: 605
Exposition Park is the one worth a second look. It has gained 268 listings since December 2025, a rise of 40.9%, which is the largest increase of any neighborhood measured in listings. Measured in percent the answer is a different neighborhood off a much smaller base, which is why the table below carries both columns and this sentence says which one it used.
The full table is below, sortable by any column. It is the same data as the by-neighborhood CSV, so if you would rather work with it in a spreadsheet you can take the file instead.
Showing 113 of 113 neighborhoods
| Hollywood | 1,758 | 1,820 | 1,598 | 1,635 | -123 | -7.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice | 1,529 | 1,567 | 1,544 | 1,491 | -38 | -2.5% |
| Downtown | 1,155 | 1,173 | 1,090 | 1,065 | -90 | -7.8% |
| Exposition Park | 655 | 743 | 906 | 923 | +268 | +40.9% |
| Hollywood Hills West | 684 | 709 | 668 | 659 | -25 | -3.7% |
| Hollywood Hills | 729 | 734 | 686 | 657 | -72 | -9.9% |
| Mid-City | 555 | 597 | 592 | 605 | +50 | +9.0% |
| Westwood | 526 | 530 | 498 | 530 | +4 | +0.8% |
| Woodland Hills | 542 | 533 | 508 | 519 | -23 | -4.2% |
| Koreatown | 520 | 554 | 487 | 518 | -2 | -0.4% |
| Sherman Oaks | 532 | 541 | 501 | 505 | -27 | -5.1% |
| Beverly Grove | 586 | 574 | 510 | 486 | -100 | -17.1% |
| Silver Lake | 495 | 495 | 472 | 473 | -22 | -4.4% |
| North Hollywood | 514 | 496 | 438 | 438 | -76 | -14.8% |
| Mid-Wilshire | 530 | 533 | 463 | 430 | -100 | -18.9% |
| Westlake | 480 | 440 | 379 | 377 | -103 | -21.5% |
| Studio City | 398 | 399 | 374 | 374 | -24 | -6.0% |
| East Hollywood | 389 | 381 | 357 | 370 | -19 | -4.9% |
| Echo Park | 377 | 382 | 357 | 347 | -30 | -8.0% |
| Sawtelle | 390 | 393 | 323 | 315 | -75 | -19.2% |
| Mar Vista | 303 | 311 | 297 | 295 | -8 | -2.6% |
| Los Feliz | 311 | 302 | 274 | 273 | -38 | -12.2% |
| Fairfax | 299 | 304 | 277 | 272 | -27 | -9.0% |
| Pico-Robertson | 289 | 276 | 256 | 262 | -27 | -9.3% |
| Westchester | 262 | 277 | 261 | 259 | -3 | -1.1% |
| Del Rey | 311 | 306 | 266 | 254 | -57 | -18.3% |
| Palms | 271 | 279 | 235 | 243 | -28 | -10.3% |
| Encino | 255 | 259 | 241 | 237 | -18 | -7.1% |
| Highland Park | 234 | 235 | 231 | 221 | -13 | -5.6% |
| Beverly Crest | 231 | 233 | 216 | 214 | -17 | -7.4% |
| Tarzana | 213 | 219 | 197 | 211 | -2 | -0.9% |
| Valley Glen | 239 | 227 | 212 | 211 | -28 | -11.7% |
| Van Nuys | 223 | 237 | 208 | 208 | -15 | -6.7% |
| Brentwood | 246 | 239 | 203 | 190 | -56 | -22.8% |
| Reseda | 217 | 207 | 181 | 188 | -29 | -13.4% |
| Hyde Park | 179 | 184 | 182 | 187 | +8 | +4.5% |
| West Hills | 206 | 186 | 180 | 179 | -27 | -13.1% |
| West Los Angeles | 196 | 189 | 184 | 178 | -18 | -9.2% |
| Valley Village | 162 | 169 | 153 | 158 | -4 | -2.5% |
| Northridge | 152 | 154 | 151 | 157 | +5 | +3.3% |
| Eagle Rock | 165 | 167 | 164 | 156 | -9 | -5.5% |
| San Pedro | 162 | 167 | 162 | 151 | -11 | -6.8% |
| Vermont Square | 130 | 133 | 138 | 144 | +14 | +10.8% |
| West Adams | 148 | 150 | 140 | 143 | -5 | -3.4% |
| Boyle Heights | 131 | 131 | 133 | 141 | +10 | +7.6% |
| Pico-Union | 206 | 191 | 172 | 130 | -76 | -36.9% |
| Winnetka | 130 | 126 | 130 | 129 | -1 | -0.8% |
| Pacific Palisades | 126 | 123 | 116 | 120 | -6 | -4.8% |
| Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw | 113 | 115 | 119 | 118 | +5 | +4.4% |
| Mount Washington | 124 | 123 | 118 | 116 | -8 | -6.5% |
| Lake Balboa | 124 | 115 | 112 | 113 | -11 | -8.9% |
| Chatsworth | 99 | 102 | 101 | 107 | +8 | +8.1% |
| Playa del Rey | 120 | 122 | 109 | 107 | -13 | -10.8% |
| Atwater Village | 109 | 102 | 103 | 105 | -4 | -3.7% |
| Glassell Park | 91 | 99 | 102 | 105 | +14 | +15.4% |
| Bel-Air | 93 | 97 | 94 | 104 | +11 | +11.8% |
| Jefferson Park | 113 | 116 | 110 | 104 | -9 | -8.0% |
| Playa Vista | 111 | 109 | 99 | 102 | -9 | -8.1% |
| Sun Valley | 104 | 111 | 109 | 102 | -2 | -1.9% |
| Adams-Normandie | 68 | 89 | 98 | 99 | +31 | +45.6% |
| Carthay | 100 | 109 | 102 | 99 | -1 | -1.0% |
| Arlington Heights | 108 | 103 | 108 | 98 | -10 | -9.3% |
| El Sereno | 93 | 104 | 96 | 98 | +5 | +5.4% |
| Canoga Park | 102 | 100 | 91 | 95 | -7 | -6.9% |
| North Hills | 98 | 102 | 87 | 91 | -7 | -7.1% |
| Toluca Lake | 86 | 91 | 83 | 90 | +4 | +4.7% |
| Hancock Park | 90 | 92 | 83 | 83 | -7 | -7.8% |
| Montecito Heights | 84 | 84 | 80 | 80 | -4 | -4.8% |
| Harbor Gateway | 76 | 72 | 70 | 73 | -3 | -3.9% |
| Harvard Heights | 71 | 70 | 68 | 69 | -2 | -2.8% |
| Lincoln Heights | 76 | 82 | 71 | 69 | -7 | -9.2% |
| Larchmont | 80 | 79 | 77 | 68 | -12 | -15.0% |
| Granada Hills | 66 | 72 | 67 | 66 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Harbor City | 31 | 56 | 66 | 65 | +34 | +109.7% |
| Manchester Square | 47 | 49 | 59 | 62 | +15 | +31.9% |
| University Park | 52 | 84 | 60 | 62 | +10 | +19.2% |
| Chinatown | 81 | 78 | 58 | 57 | -24 | -29.6% |
| Panorama City | 56 | 54 | 53 | 55 | -1 | -1.8% |
| Historic South-Central | 65 | 66 | 51 | 54 | -11 | -16.9% |
| Leimert Park | 45 | 47 | 50 | 51 | +6 | +13.3% |
| Rancho Park | 45 | 48 | 47 | 47 | +2 | +4.4% |
| Sylmar | 47 | 50 | 51 | 45 | -2 | -4.3% |
| Gramercy Park | 36 | 39 | 45 | 42 | +6 | +16.7% |
| Century City | 40 | 36 | 36 | 36 | -4 | -10.0% |
| Shadow Hills | 40 | 45 | 36 | 36 | -4 | -10.0% |
| Vermont Vista | 58 | 30 | 34 | 36 | -22 | -37.9% |
| Porter Ranch | 36 | 32 | 32 | 35 | -1 | -2.8% |
| Tujunga | 34 | 41 | 37 | 35 | +1 | +2.9% |
| Elysian Valley | 35 | 33 | 31 | 34 | -1 | -2.9% |
| Vermont Knolls | 24 | 25 | 23 | 28 | +4 | +16.7% |
| Central-Alameda | 26 | 25 | 23 | 27 | +1 | +3.8% |
| Beverlywood | 29 | 28 | 27 | 25 | -4 | -13.8% |
| Mission Hills | 22 | 22 | 22 | 25 | +3 | +13.6% |
| Cypress Park | 26 | 26 | 22 | 24 | -2 | -7.7% |
| Vermont-Slauson | 23 | 28 | 24 | 21 | -2 | -8.7% |
| Windsor Square | 24 | 26 | 20 | 21 | -3 | -12.5% |
| Pacoima | 15 | 16 | 20 | 20 | +5 | +33.3% |
| Chesterfield Square | 17 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0.0% |
| South Park | 21 | 23 | 19 | 17 | -4 | -19.0% |
| Cheviot Hills | 22 | 22 | 17 | 16 | -6 | -27.3% |
| Broadway-Manchester | 22 | 13 | 12 | 13 | -9 | -40.9% |
| Elysian Park | 15 | 17 | 16 | 13 | -2 | -13.3% |
| Harvard Park | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | +1 | +8.3% |
| Wilmington | 13 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Green Meadows | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | -1 | -10.0% |
| Sunland | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Arleta | 10 | 11 | 9 | 8 | -2 | -20.0% |
| Florence | 10 | 6 | 9 | 7 | -3 | -30.0% |
| Lake View Terrace | 12 | 7 | 7 | 7 | -5 | -41.7% |
| Chatsworth Reservoir | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sepulveda Basin | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Watts | 16 | 17 | 13 | 3 | -13 | -81.3% |
| Griffith Park | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | -1 | -33.3% |
Sort any column by clicking its heading. Counts are listings, not units or hosts, and a change is measured from the first snapshot to the most recent one.
How we got these numbers
Source: Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com), 4 quarterly snapshots of its Los Angeles data: December 4, 2025, March 16, 2026, June 15, 2026, September 14, 2026.
"City of Los Angeles" is Inside Airbnb's neighbourhood_group field. The neighborhood boundaries inside it are the LA Times "Mapping L.A." designations, which is the same set of 113 names the city's own planning documents and most LA reporting use.
Registration status is derived from each listing's licence field: a value beginning "HSR" is counted as registered, a value containing "Exempt" as exempt, and a blank as showing no registration. A remainder of 0.6% carries other values such as "pending" and is counted in the city total but in none of the three buckets.
A listing is an active public listing at the moment of the snapshot. It is not the same as an occupied unit, a legally operating unit, a property or a host: one property can carry several listings and a listing can sit online unbooked.
Percentages are computed from the counts in the published files and rounded to one decimal place, so a column of shares may not add up exactly. Changes are measured from the first snapshot to the most recent one, not from the highest or the lowest.
We did not scrape anything ourselves and we have not corrected, interpolated or estimated any value. The arithmetic on this page runs over the two files offered above, which is the whole of what we did to them.
- Sources
- Inside Airbnb The listing snapshots, including the licence field.
- LA Times "Mapping L.A." The neighborhood boundaries and names.
- LA City Planning, Home-Sharing Ordinance What registration is and what the city requires a host to display.
- Data through
- . We refresh these figures as new Inside Airbnb snapshots are released, which has been roughly quarterly.
Download the data
Both files are free to use with attribution to los-angeles.com and to Inside Airbnb. We publish them so you can check the arithmetic rather than take our word for it.
- Citywide totals by quarter (CSV)4 quarterly snapshots: the region, the City of LA, and the city's listings split by room type and by registration status.Columns:
date, total_region, city_of_la, other_cities, unincorporated, city_entire_home, city_private_room, city_registered_HSR, city_exempt, city_no_license - Listings by neighborhood (CSV)One row per City-of-LA neighborhood, 113 of them, with its listing count at each of the 4 snapshots.Columns:
neighbourhood (City of LA), 2025-12-04, 2026-03-16, 2026-06-15, 2026-09-14