Short-term rental permit and license records on file with 1 local registry, as of July 2026 — compiled, deduplicated, and free to cite. Part of Cavmir's U.S. STR permit data hub.
Texas has no statewide short-term rental file, and the record here is a single city's: Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth, which permits short-term rentals. It is a small but revealing dataset in the middle of one of the country's biggest metros.
For now, Arlington is the entire published picture in Texas: every record on this page comes from that one registry. As other Texas jurisdictions publish their own data, this page will grow beyond it.
The headline figure counts short-term rental permit and license records on file with 1 local registry, 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 Texas's legal short-term rental market — not a census.
Arlington's demand is an events economy. It sits beside major pro-sports stadiums and a large theme-park and convention draw, so its short-term rentals live and die by the calendar — game days, concerts, tournaments, and the groups that travel for them. The permitted supply is modest, which means a well-run listing can own its niche around those anchor events.
The play is group-friendly presentation and event-timed visibility: being the obvious, findable choice when a party of ten needs beds near the stadium for a specific weekend. Cavmir markets Arlington and greater-metro rentals around those demand spikes, with search, photography, and a booking flow built for the group trips that fill them.
The official registries we compiled show 592 short-term rental permit and license records on file with 1 local registry as of July 2026. Not every Texas jurisdiction publishes its data, so the true statewide figure is higher.
In the Texas markets covered here, short-term rental permitting runs through city and county programs. The registries in this compilation: City of Arlington — short-term rental permits. Rules and requirements vary by jurisdiction — always confirm with the local program directly.
By records on file: Arlington (592). Arlington leads with 592.
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, “Texas Short-Term Rental Permit Data,” compiled from official state, city, and county registries, July 2026. https://cavmir.com/data/texas-short-term-rental-permits/New permit requirements, caps, moratoriums, new registries in Texas — one plain-English email when something actually changes. If nothing changes, you hear nothing.
Cavmir markets short-term rentals in Texas — 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.
