What Austin Airbnbs actually charge
The median Austin listing asks $217 a night. That is where most pricing advice stops, and it is the least useful number on this page: a quarter of Austin listings ask under $133 and a tenth ask more than $640. Below is the whole distribution — by size, by ZIP code, by listing type and by amenity — recomputed from the 11,295 listings in the June 2026 Inside Airbnb snapshot.
The whole distribution, not the average
Every percentile below is computed from the listings that publish a nightly rate (10,321 of 11,295, or 91.4%). Half of the market sits inside the shaded band.
Austin's spread is wide even by big-market standards. The gap between the 25th and 75th percentile is roughly a factor of three, and the top decile starts at $640 — that tail is downtown penthouses, event-weekend houses and a handful of listings that are priced to never book. If you are benchmarking against “the average Austin Airbnb,” you are benchmarking against a number no actual listing charges.
What to charge, by size
This is the table to start from. Find your bedroom count, and treat the 25th–75th percentile band as the range a listing like yours can defend without an argument. Going above the 75th requires a reason a guest can see in the photos.
| Size | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | $121 | $163 | $213 | 2,550 |
| 2 bedrooms | $157 | $220 | $300 | 2,152 |
| 3 bedrooms | $223 | $306 | $430 | 1,631 |
| 4+ bedrooms | $366 | $540 | $893 | 1,693 |
Listings without a stated bedroom count are excluded, which is why these counts don't add up to the city total.
Price by ZIP code
Inside Airbnb reports Austin by ZIP code rather than by neighborhood name, which is inconvenient to read and unusually useful to price against — a ZIP is exactly the unit a guest filters by on a map. The spread is the story: 78701 runs +34.2% against the city median while 78744 runs -32.3%. Same city, same month, and a spread far larger than anything you can change about the inside of your unit.
| ZIP code | Median | vs city | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78704 | $236 | +8.9% | 1,684 |
| 78702 | $265 | +22.3% | 1,210 |
| 78701 | $291 | +34.2% | 1,147 |
| 78745 | $195 | -10.1% | 645 |
| 78741 | $186 | -14.3% | 541 |
| 78703 | $206 | -5.3% | 444 |
| 78705 | $171 | -21.2% | 397 |
| 78744 | $147 | -32.3% | 381 |
Inside Airbnb publishes Austin geography as 5-digit ZIP codes. Areas with fewer than 30 priced listings are left out — the median stops meaning anything below that.
Entire place, private room, or hotel room
Mixing these together is the most common way a host misreads their own market. The medians are far apart, and the mix determines what “the average listing in my city” even means.
| Type | Median | Share of market | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entire home/apt | $233 | 82.8% | 9,354 |
| Private room | $96 | 14.7% | 1,665 |
| Hotel room | $314 | 1.8% | 201 |
| Shared room | $17 | 0.7% | 75 |
The competition you can measure: reviews
Price is the number hosts obsess over; reviews are the number that decides whether your price is ever seen. Here is the field you are actually up against.
| Measure | Value | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Listings with zero reviews | 16.5% | 1,859 listings competing with no social proof at all |
| Median review count | 17 | Half the market is below this |
| 75th percentile | 64 | Clearing this puts you in the top quarter |
| 90th percentile | 157 | The established operators |
| Median rating | 4.93 | Among the 9,436 listings that have one |
| Rated 4.9 or higher | 58.3% | Of rated listings — this is the bar, not 4.5 |
| Rated 4.5 or higher | 93.4% | Below 4.5 you are in the bottom decile |
Amenities: table stakes versus differentiators
An amenity that 70% of your market already lists is not a selling point — it is a box you get penalized for leaving unchecked. One that fewer than 40% of listings can claim is worth putting in your title. We measured 4,371 distinct amenity labels in this market; these are the ones with enough volume to price against.
- Wifi — 91.2% of listings
- Air conditioning — 70.7% of listings
- Kitchen — 91% of listings
- Self check-in — 77% of listings
- Dedicated workspace — 71.3% of listings
- Dryer — 33.5% of listings
- BBQ grill — 33.6% of listings
- Pool — 17.9% of listings
- Elevator — 11% of listings
- Gym — 8.7% of listings
- Hot tub — 5.5% of listings
- Crib — 9.7% of listings
- EV charger — 5.2% of listings
| Amenity | With | Without | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pool | $252 | $228 | +10.5% |
| Hot tub | $440 | $227 | +93.8% |
| Free parking on premises | $233 | $234 | -0.4% |
| Self check-in | $232 | $240 | -3.3% |
The Austin outlier is the hot tub. Entire places that list one ask a median $440 against $227 for those that don't — the widest amenity gap in this dataset. Read it carefully: hot tubs cluster in larger Hill Country–side houses that would command more anyway. The honest version of the claim is that a hot tub is a marker of the high end of this market, not a lever that moves a downtown studio into it.
The mirror image is free parking. It is on 67.2% of Austin listings and is associated with essentially no price difference (-0.4%). In Austin, parking is table stakes: having it wins you nothing, and not having it is a line you owe your guest in the description before they book.
How to use this page
- Find your band. Bedroom count first, then adjust by your ZIP code using the percentage in the second table.
- Check where you sit in it. If you are below the 25th percentile for your size and area, you are likely leaving money on the table. Above the 75th, your listing has to look like it.
- Fix the free things first. Reviews, photos, title and amenity completeness move bookings without capital. The differentiator list above tells you which claims are actually scarce in your market.
Frequently asked
How much should I charge for an Airbnb in Austin?
The median Austin listing asks $217 per night, but size drives the number far more than the city median does. Entire one-bedroom places sit between $121 and $213 (median $163), two-bedrooms between $157 and $300, and four-or-more-bedroom places between $366 and $893. Start from your bedroom band, then adjust for your ZIP code. Figures are asking rates from the June 2026 Inside Airbnb snapshot of 11,295 listings.
Which Austin ZIP codes have the highest Airbnb prices?
Of the eight ZIP codes with the most listings, 78701 has the highest median at $291 (+34.2% against the city median), followed by 78702 at $265. The lowest of the eight is 78744 at $147.
How many reviews does a typical Austin Airbnb have?
The median Austin listing has 17 reviews, and 16.5% of listings (1,859) have none at all. Getting past 64 reviews puts you in the top quarter of the market.
What rating do I need to be competitive in Austin?
The median rating among rated Austin listings is 4.93, and 58.3% of them are at 4.9 or above. Treating 4.5 as “good enough” is a mistake in this market — 93.4% of rated listings clear 4.5, so it puts you near the bottom rather than in the middle.
Is this booked revenue or asking price?
Asking price. These are the nightly rates listings publish, before cleaning fees, service fees and taxes, and they say nothing about how many nights actually sold. A listing can ask anything; what it earns depends on occupancy, which this dataset does not contain.
More on the Austin market
- Source
- Inside Airbnb — public data export, Austin, TX snapshot dated 2026-06-22.
- Sample
- 11,295 listings. A nightly rate is published for 10,321 of them (91.4%); the rest are blank in the source and are excluded from every price figure on this page.
- What the price is
- The base nightly rate as listed, in US dollars, with no conversion applied. It excludes cleaning fees, service fees and taxes, and it is an asking price — not a booked rate, and not revenue.
- Method
- Percentiles are computed by linear interpolation over the sorted sample. Medians are used throughout instead of averages because the tail is extreme enough to make an average meaningless. Every figure on this page is recomputed from the source file at build time by scripts/market_stats_en.py — none of them is typed by hand.