Cavmir Market Data · Louisiana · July 2026

Louisiana Short-Term Rental Permit Data

Permit and license records on file with the City of New Orleans, as of July 2026 — compiled, deduplicated, and free to cite. Part of Cavmir's U.S. STR permit data hub.

See the numbers Where Cavmir works in Louisiana

Where The Licenses Are

Louisiana's most-licensed markets

New Orleans runs one of the strictest short-term rental regimes in the country, and its open-data portal shows the whole funnel: tens of thousands of application records over the years, and a currently-active license list under two thousand.

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For now, New Orleans is the entire published picture in Louisiana: every record on this page comes from that one registry. As other Louisiana jurisdictions publish their own data, this page will grow beyond it.

Louisiana top markets at a glance

Records are permit and license records on file with the registries named on this page, as of July 2026. Share is each market’s slice of the 26,029 records compiled for Louisiana. Free to cite with a link to this page.

#	Market	Records on file	Share of state	Cavmir market page
1	New Orleans	1,755	6.7%	New Orleans market page

How To Read These Numbers

What this number is — and is not

The headline figure counts permit and license records on file with the City of New Orleans, 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 Louisiana's legal short-term rental market — not a census.

City of New Orleans Open Data — STR licenses & applications

Cavmir Market Guides

Where Cavmir works in Louisiana

Cavmir's New Orleans guide covers the French Quarter, the Marigny, Bywater, the Garden District and Uptown. It is the one Louisiana market with a published registry, and the one we market in.

New OrleansOn the registry

Maximize your New Orleans Airbnb bookings with Cavmir. Expert STR marketing for the French Quarter, Garden District, Marigny, Bywater & Uptown properties.

What It Means For Hosts

Reading Louisiana like a marketer

For the hosts who hold one of those active licenses, the math is unusual and enviable: a legally capped supply in one of America's highest-demand leisure cities. You are not fighting ten thousand neighbors for the same weekend — the city's rules already did that filtering. The scarce asset is the license itself.

That changes where the effort goes. In a capped market, the waste is paying platform commissions on demand you would have won anyway. The move is a direct-booking path — a real website, an email list, repeat-guest offers — so a booking to a French Quarter or Marigny rental keeps more of its own revenue. Cavmir builds that channel around listings that already hold the hardest thing to get in New Orleans: a license.

Questions

Louisiana STR data, answered

How many licensed short-term rentals are in Louisiana?

The official registries we compiled show 26,029 permit and license records on file with the City of New Orleans as of July 2026. Not every Louisiana jurisdiction publishes its data, so the true statewide figure is higher.

Who licenses short-term rentals in Louisiana?

In the Louisiana markets covered here, short-term rental permitting runs through city and county programs. The registries in this compilation: City of New Orleans Open Data — STR licenses & applications. Rules and requirements vary by jurisdiction — always confirm with the local program directly.

Which Louisiana cities have the most short-term rentals?

By records on file: New Orleans (1,755). New Orleans leads with 1,755.

Where does this data come from?

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.

How many Louisiana communities have ten or more licensed short-term rentals on file?

One: New Orleans. It is the only Louisiana jurisdiction whose registry we could verify as official and complete, so every record on this page comes from it. The page grows as other Louisiana cities and counties publish their own files.

How much of Louisiana's total does New Orleans account for?

The registry publishes 26,029 records for New Orleans, of which 1,754 carry an active status. We report both because the gap between applications or lapsed permits and currently active licenses is the real size of the legal market.

Which Louisiana markets does Cavmir publish guides for?

1 market guide: New Orleans. Each one covers the season, who books there, what wins in that market and how Cavmir markets rentals in it. They are listed on this page under "Where Cavmir works in Louisiana".

Cite this data

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, “Louisiana Short-Term Rental Permit Data,” compiled from official state, city, and county registries, July 2026. https://cavmir.com/data/louisiana-short-term-rental-permits/

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