Free Airbnb and short-term rental statistics for 31 Kwazulu Natal markets, from Ethekwini (3,473 active listings) to Ingwe: 9,303 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 Kwazulu Natal 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 16, 2026.
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Every Kwazulu Natal 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.
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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 31 market pagesfor Kwazulu Natal 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 9,303 active short-term rental listings across the 31 markets in Kwazulu Natal 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.
Ethekwini is the largest short-term rental market in Kwazulu Natal by active listings, with 3,473 active Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com listings earning an average of $14.6K a year at 50% occupancy.
It depends on what you are optimizing for. Ethekwini is the largest Kwazulu Natal market by supply (3,473 active listings). Among markets with 100+ active listings, Umgeni has the highest AirDNA Market Score (90 out of 100), Kwadukuza earns the most per listing ($23.5K a year), and Ethekwini books the most nights (50% 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.
Ethekwini runs the highest occupancy among Kwazulu Natal short-term rental markets (among 100+ listing markets), booking 50% of available nights across 3,473 active listings.
The listing-weighted average occupancy across Kwazulu Natal's 31 markets is 46% for the trailing twelve months through August 2026. Among the 12 largest markets it ranges from 28% in Newcastle to 50% in Ethekwini. Each market page reports its own occupancy rate and month-by-month seasonality.
Kwadukuza has the highest average daily rate among Kwazulu Natal short-term rental markets (among 100+ listing markets), at $154 per booked night across 1,922 active listings.
The typical active listing in Kwazulu Natal earned $15.2K in the trailing twelve months through August 2026 (listing-weighted across all 31 markets). Among the 12 largest markets, annual revenue per listing ranges from $4.6K in Newcastle to $23.5K in Kwadukuza. Kwadukuza earns the most statewide (among 100+ listing markets), at $23.5K a year with a $154 average daily rate and 49% occupancy. Revenue figures include nightly rates and guest fees, before expenses.
Umgeni has the highest AirDNA Market Score in Kwazulu Natal (among 100+ listing markets) at 90 out of 100. The score weighs rental demand, revenue growth, seasonality, regulation and investability, benchmarked against other markets in the South Africa.
This page was last updated on September 16, 2026 and reflects completed market data through August 2026. Market pages are refreshed monthly; every headline figure is a trailing-twelve-month average.
Each Kwazulu Natal market page links into the AirDNA app, where markets are broken down into submarkets and neighborhoods with their own revenue, occupancy and daily-rate figures, plus comp sets and address-level revenue projections from Rentalizer.
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