Current vacation rental licenses on the florida dbpr license file, as of July 2026 — compiled, deduplicated, and free to cite. Part of Cavmir's U.S. STR permit data hub.
Florida is the only state where a single statewide file — the DBPR vacation rental license extract — covers every licensed market from Pensacola to Key West. That makes it the most complete public picture of any short-term rental economy in the country, and the largest here by a wide margin.
Florida's three biggest markets — Kissimmee, Panama City Beach, Davenport — account for about 20% of the state's licensed records; the rest spread across 275 more communities with ten or more on file. Where a property sits on that curve — dense top market or long tail — changes how guests find it, and how hard a listing has to work to stand out.
The headline figure counts current vacation rental licenses on the Florida DBPR license file, deduplicated by permit number. A license is not a listing: some licenses cover multiple units, some licensed homes sit unrented, and jurisdictions that publish nothing are missing entirely. Treat it as a verified floor for the size of Florida's legal short-term rental market — not a census.
Density is the whole story. The Disney corridor — Kissimmee, Davenport, and the theme-park towns around them — is the most heavily licensed short-term rental territory in America, which means a listing there competes on presentation, not availability. When thousands of near-identical pool homes turn up in the same search, the ones that win look like small hotel brands: professional photography, a clear point of view, and a booking experience that does not feel like a spare room.
The coasts play a different game. The panhandle beach towns — Panama City Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, Destin — run on sharp seasonal demand, where a pricing calendar and a strong photo set decide the year. Miami and Miami Beach carry fewer licenses but far more revenue per night, so they reward design and brand over raw discovery. Cavmir markets across all three Floridas — corridor, coast, and city — and the approach changes with the map.
The Florida DBPR license file lists 50,295 current vacation rental licenses as of July 2026. One license can cover multiple units in the same building, so the number of rentable units is higher.
Vacation rentals in Florida are licensed statewide by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). This page is built from the DBPR public license file — the same extract the state publishes for public records purposes.
By records on file: Kissimmee (4,137), Panama City Beach (3,605), Davenport (2,476). Kissimmee leads with 4,137.
Directly from the official registries listed on this page, pulled and deduplicated in July 2026. No records are estimated or modeled — see the methodology on the national data page for what was excluded and why.
These numbers are free to use in articles, research, and reports — no permission needed. We ask for one thing: credit Cavmir and link to this page so readers can check the source.
Cavmir, “Florida Short-Term Rental Permit Data,” compiled from official state, city, and county registries, July 2026. https://cavmir.com/data/florida-short-term-rental-permits/New permit requirements, caps, moratoriums, new registries in Florida — one plain-English email when something actually changes. If nothing changes, you hear nothing.
Cavmir markets short-term rentals in Florida — photography-led listings, direct-booking websites, and local SEO built around how guests actually search. The registry tells you how many competitors you have; we make sure you do not look like any of them.
