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.
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.
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.
For the hosts who hold one of those licenses, the math is unusual: a legally capped supply in one of America's highest-demand leisure cities. Marketing a licensed New Orleans rental is less about beating ten thousand neighbors and more about earning direct bookings that OTA fees would otherwise eat.
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.
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.
By records on file: New Orleans (1,755). New Orleans leads with 1,755.
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, “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/Cavmir markets short-term rentals in Louisiana — 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.
