Tourist rooming house licenses on the wisconsin datcp lodging file, as of July 2026 — compiled, deduplicated, and free to cite. Part of Cavmir's U.S. STR permit data hub.
Wisconsin licenses short-term rentals as tourist rooming houses through the state agriculture department, DATCP — one statewide file, twelve thousand licenses, and more licensed communities than any other state in this compilation.
The headline figure counts tourist rooming house licenses on the Wisconsin DATCP lodging 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 Wisconsin's legal short-term rental market — not a census.
The surprise is how distributed it is: Door County harbor towns, Northwoods lake cabins around Hayward, Green Bay game weekends. These are drive-to markets where guests choose between towns, not just houses — so listings that sell the town itself consistently outperform.
The Wisconsin DATCP lodging file lists 12,015 licensed tourist rooming houses as of July 2026.
Wisconsin licenses short-term rentals as tourist rooming houses through the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). This page is built from the DATCP public lodging license file.
By records on file: Green Bay (633), Hayward (431), Sturgeon Bay (409). Green Bay leads with 633.
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.
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Cavmir, “Wisconsin Short-Term Rental Permit Data,” compiled from official state, city, and county registries, July 2026. https://cavmir.com/data/wisconsin-short-term-rental-permits/Cavmir markets short-term rentals in Wisconsin — 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.
