Free Airbnb and short-term rental statistics for 140 Iowa markets, from Des Moines (1,121 active listings) to Omaha: 15,189 active Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com listings as of August 2026. Every market page reports occupancy rate, average daily rate, RevPAR, annual revenue per listing and AirDNA's Market Score, refreshed monthly.
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The 12 markets in Iowa with the most active Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com listings, with each market's live occupancy rate, average daily rate and annual revenue per listing. Updated September 29, 2026.
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Every Iowa city, town and resort market with a free AirDNA data page, A to Z. Each page reports active listings, occupancy rate, average daily rate, annual revenue, supply mix and the largest property managers.
About the data
AirDNA tracks the daily performance of more than 10 million short-term rental listings on Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com across 120,000+ markets worldwide. The 140 market pagesfor Iowa on this site are a free, monthly-refreshed slice of that dataset: for every market, the trailing-twelve-month active listing count, annual revenue per listing, occupancy rate, average daily rate (ADR), RevPAR and AirDNA's Market Score, plus supply mix and the largest property managers.
Listing, calendar and booking activity is collected directly from Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com and supplemented by 1M+ partner properties connected through property management systems, channel managers and direct host integrations. The same home listed on several channels is counted once.
How AirDNA collects data →Market pages are refreshed monthly. Every headline metric is a trailing-twelve-month figure, so a market is judged on a full year of bookings, not one busy or slow month. The “Updated” date at the top of each page is the real refresh date.
How often AirDNA data is updated →AirDNA's Market Score grades each market from 40 to 100 on short-term rental potential, benchmarked against other short-term rental markets in the same country with at least 15 active listings. It combines five subscores, each computed from observed market data:
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There are 15,189 active short-term rental listings across the 140 markets in Iowa that AirDNA publishes data for, as of August 2026. Active listings are homes on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com that were available or booked in the trailing twelve months, de-duplicated across channels. Each market has its own page with occupancy, daily-rate, revenue and supply data.
Des Moines is the largest short-term rental market in Iowa by active listings, with 1,121 active Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com listings earning an average of $28.6K a year at 58% occupancy.
It depends on what you are optimizing for. Des Moines is the largest Iowa market by supply (1,121 active listings). Among markets with 100+ active listings, Anamosa has the highest AirDNA Market Score (100 out of 100), Arnolds Park earns the most per listing ($39.5K a year), and Anamosa books the most nights (81% occupancy). The markets on this page are ranked by active listings, not by investment potential; use each market page's revenue, occupancy, seasonality and Market Score to compare them for your goal.
Anamosa runs the highest occupancy among Iowa short-term rental markets (among 100+ listing markets), booking 81% of available nights across 366 active listings.
The listing-weighted average occupancy across Iowa's 140 markets is 54% for the trailing twelve months through August 2026. Among the 12 largest markets it ranges from 45% in Spirit Lake to 81% in Anamosa. Each market page reports its own occupancy rate and month-by-month seasonality.
Arnolds Park has the highest average daily rate among Iowa short-term rental markets (among 100+ listing markets), at $391 per booked night across 568 active listings.
The typical active listing in Iowa earned $29.6K in the trailing twelve months through August 2026 (listing-weighted across all 140 markets). Among the 12 largest markets, annual revenue per listing ranges from $27.7K in Le Claire to $39.5K in Arnolds Park. Arnolds Park earns the most statewide (among 100+ listing markets), at $39.5K a year with a $391 average daily rate and 45% occupancy. Revenue figures include nightly rates and guest fees, before expenses.
Anamosa has the highest AirDNA Market Score in Iowa (among 100+ listing markets) at 100 out of 100. The score weighs rental demand, revenue growth, seasonality, regulation and investability, benchmarked against other markets in the United States.
This page was last updated on September 29, 2026 and reflects completed market data through August 2026. Market pages are refreshed monthly; every headline figure is a trailing-twelve-month average.
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