Airbnb Cleaning Statistics (2026)

89% of short term rental listings in the U.S. charged a cleaning fee as of April 1, 2025. That is the highest rate of any country in the world, ahead of Aruba (88.6%) and Curacao (86.7%).

The average Airbnb cleaning fee in the U.S. is $161.10 per stay in 2025, the highest national average in the world.

The average cleaning fee for a one bedroom U.S. short term rental reached $96, a 3.3% jump over the first quarter of 2024.

Cleaning fees for two bedroom U.S. properties averaged $141.60 as of April 1, 2025, up 3.5% year over year.

Roughly 1.5 million short term rental listings in the U.S. carry a cleaning fee.

The highest average cleaning fees in the U.S. are in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida ($328), Telluride, Colorado ($311), and Kauai, Hawaii ($285). The lowest are in the Kansas area ($61) and Nebraska area ($64).

Cleaning fees for private rooms are the fastest growing in the U.S., up 9.8% in a year to an average of $47.10.

Cleanliness is the top cause of disappointment in vacation rentals. 45% of travelers who had a disappointing stay blamed cleanliness, ahead of maintenance problems (31%) and listings that were not as advertised (30%).

Lack of cleanliness is one of the five most common guest complaints, reported by 33% of short term rental guests, alongside poor internet (39%) and poor property maintenance (38%).

70% of short term rental landlords say enhanced cleaning is the feature most likely to attract guests to a listing, more than any other feature surveyed.

85.5% of short term rental operators say guest expectations have increased over the past two years, and 79% say owner expectations have risen too.

The global short term vacation rental market was valued at $149.2 billion in 2025.

The market is projected to grow from $165.7 billion in 2026 to $362.4 billion by 2033, a compound annual growth rate of 11.8%.

North America held the largest share of global short term vacation rental revenue in 2025, at 34.6%.

Airbnb ended 2024 with over 491 million nights and experiences booked, nearly $82 billion in gross booking value, and revenue above $11 billion.

In Q4 2025, Airbnb nights and seats booked rose 10%, revenue grew 12%, and gross booking value grew 16% year over year, its highest growth quarter in more than two years.

Airbnb has more than 5 million hosts, who have collectively earned $250 billion and welcomed over 1.5 billion guest check-ins.

Travel on Airbnb generated more than $90 billion in U.S. economic activity in 2024, supporting over 1 million jobs and more than $52 billion in labor income.

There are an estimated 1,985,280 professionally managed vacation rental properties in the United States.

An estimated 25,000 vacation rental management companies operate in the United States.

AirDNA projects available U.S. short term rental listings to grow 4.6% in 2026, with average daily rates up 1.5% and occupancy easing about 1%.

Nearly half of short term rental operators (45.5%) run into last minute guest issues every single day.

73% of short term rental operators complete more than 50 property care and coordination tasks per week.

90% of operators say their work involves constant coordination with other people, and the larger the portfolio, the harder that gets.

More than one third of hosts and property managers lost bookings or received negative reviews in 2025 because of staffing or contractor issues, per a survey of 554 hosts and property managers.

Nearly 40% of hosts and property managers report difficulty finding dependable local cleaning staff, and the problem grows with portfolio size.

AI adoption among short term rental hosts jumped from 60% to 84% in a single year, the biggest operational shift measured across the industry in 2025.

About 40% of hosts increased both occupancy and average daily rates versus summer 2024, and 37.5% grew their direct bookings year over year.

The U.S. had 2,447,700 janitor and building cleaner jobs in 2024, the labor pool that vacation rental cleaning draws from.

Median pay for janitors and building cleaners was $35,930 per year ($17.27 per hour) in 2024, and employment is projected to grow just 2% from 2024 to 2034, slower than average, adding about 47,800 jobs.