What Nashville Airbnbs actually charge
The median Nashville listing asks $282 a night — the highest of the four US markets we publish data for. It is also the most lopsided: Nashville has 2,494 entire places with four or more bedrooms, more than it has three-bedrooms, because a large share of this market is built for groups rather than for couples. Everything below is recomputed from the 10,242 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 (9,515 of 10,242, or 92.9%). Half of the market sits inside the shaded band.
Nashville's floor is high. The 10th percentile is $116 — the cheapest tenth of this market still asks more than the cheapest tenth of Austin or Chicago. That is the group-travel market pulling the whole curve up: when the typical unit sleeps 6, there is very little true budget inventory to anchor the bottom.
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 | $145 | $199 | $254 | 2,312 |
| 2 bedrooms | $187 | $261 | $342 | 1,934 |
| 3 bedrooms | $239 | $322 | $434 | 1,601 |
| 4+ bedrooms | $356 | $489 | $736 | 2,494 |
Listings without a stated bedroom count are excluded, which is why these counts don't add up to the city total.
Price by district
Inside Airbnb reports Nashville by numbered district, and one district dominates: District 19 alone holds 2,637 listings, more than double the next. Concentration cuts both ways — it is where the demand is, and it is where you are one of thousands of near-identical results. The premium districts aren't the crowded ones: District 2 carries the highest median at $409 (+45.3%) on 597 listings.
| District | Median | vs city | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| District 19 | $304 | +7.8% | 2,637 |
| District 17 | $320 | +13.5% | 1,190 |
| District 5 | $303 | +7.6% | 1,044 |
| District 21 | $322 | +14.5% | 990 |
| District 15 | $194 | -31.3% | 752 |
| District 6 | $246 | -12.6% | 667 |
| District 2 | $409 | +45.3% | 597 |
| District 7 | $206 | -26.9% | 267 |
Inside Airbnb publishes Nashville geography as numbered districts. 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 | $290 | 90.5% | 9,266 |
| Private room | $140 | 8.7% | 893 |
| Hotel room | $238 | 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 | 12.8% | 1,306 listings competing with no social proof at all |
| Median review count | 29 | Half the market is below this |
| 75th percentile | 102 | Clearing this puts you in the top quarter |
| 90th percentile | 220 | The established operators |
| Median rating | 4.91 | Among the 8,936 listings that have one |
| Rated 4.9 or higher | 55.2% | Of rated listings — this is the bar, not 4.5 |
| Rated 4.5 or higher | 93.8% | 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 3,344 distinct amenity labels in this market; these are the ones with enough volume to price against.
- Wifi — 94% of listings
- Air conditioning — 72.1% of listings
- Kitchen — 90.3% of listings
- Self check-in — 83.8% of listings
- Pets allowed — 30.2% of listings
- BBQ grill — 26.9% of listings
- Pool — 13.9% of listings
- Elevator — 21.2% of listings
- Gym — 10% of listings
- Hot tub — 7.5% of listings
- Crib — 9.1% of listings
- EV charger — 4.5% of listings
| Amenity | With | Without | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pool | $258 | $297 | -12.9% |
| Hot tub | $433 | $284 | +52.2% |
| Free parking on premises | $280 | $306 | -8.6% |
| Self check-in | $294 | $270 | +8.9% |
Nashville is the market where a pool does not pay. Entire places that list one ask a median $258 against $297 for those that don't — -12.9%, the wrong direction. The likely reason is location, not the pool: pools sit on suburban lots, and the money in this market is in walkable districts where lots are too small for one. Either way, the data does not support installing a pool to raise your rate here.
A hot tub is a different story — $433 against $284, or +52.2% — and it appears on only 7.5% of listings. Self check-in is the other one worth noting: at 83.8% it is the highest of any market here, which means arriving guests expect it and a key handoff now reads as a defect.
How to use this page
- Find your band. Bedroom count first, then adjust by your district 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 Nashville?
The median Nashville listing asks $282 per night. By size, entire one-bedroom places sit between $145 and $254, two-bedrooms between $187 and $342, and places with four or more bedrooms between $356 and $736 — the band that most of Nashville's group-travel inventory sits in. Figures are asking rates from the June 2026 Inside Airbnb snapshot of 10,242 listings.
Why is Nashville more expensive than other US Airbnb markets?
Because the inventory is bigger. The median Nashville listing sleeps 6, and there are 2,494 entire places with four or more bedrooms — a market shaped around group trips rather than couples. That pushes the median asking rate to $282 and lifts the floor: even the 10th percentile is $116.
Does a pool raise what I can charge in Nashville?
The data says no. Entire places listing a pool ask a median $258 versus $297 for those without — -12.9%. That is an association, not a causal test, and location is the likely explanation: pools sit where lots are large and nightly rates are lower. It is still a strong argument against adding one purely to raise your rate.
How many reviews does a typical Nashville Airbnb have?
The median is 29 reviews — the highest of the four markets — and 12.8% of listings have none. The 75th percentile is 102, so a new listing is starting against a well-reviewed field.
Is this booked revenue or asking price?
Asking price. These are published nightly rates before cleaning fees, service fees and taxes. They do not measure occupancy or revenue, which this dataset does not contain.
More on the Nashville market
- Source
- Inside Airbnb — public data export, Nashville, TN snapshot dated 2026-06-26.
- Sample
- 10,242 listings. A nightly rate is published for 9,515 of them (92.9%); 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.