Cuyahoga Falls, OH Short-Term Rental Market Report: 2026
Every underwriting or pricing conversation about a Cuyahoga Falls short-term rental eventually needs one defensible number to start from. Air ROI's extract, covering the August 2025 through July 2026 window, provides it: typical Cuyahoga Falls listings earned about $21,237 last year, drawn from 56 active rentals. This report exists to unpack that figure — what it's built from, how it breaks down month to month, how the market moved year over year, and how it compares to the neighboring Akron market — so hosts, buyers, and anyone researching this town work from the same baseline rather than a patchwork of secondhand estimates or outdated blog posts.
The headline number only becomes useful once it's broken into its parts. $21,237 in typical annual revenue across 56 listings works out to roughly $194 a night at 44.6 percent occupancy, or about $89 in revenue per available night once empty nights are averaged in. Each figure tells a slightly different piece of the story, and reading them together — rather than quoting whichever one sounds best in isolation — is what makes this report worth more than a single headline statistic pulled out of context.
What follows breaks that headline into nine pieces: the core figures, the year-over-year trend, the guest profile, the seasonal calendar, the 30-night minimum question, how Cuyahoga Falls compares to Akron, the registration and tax layer, a direct flag on a discrepancy in the underlying data, and finally how to put all of it to work in your own pricing or underwriting. This is not legal advice.
The headline figures
Cuyahoga Falls' active short-term rental supply, according to the August 2025 through July 2026 extract, sits at 56 listings. Typical revenue across those listings was about $21,237 for the year, at an average nightly rate of $194 and 44.6 percent occupancy. Multiplying occupancy against rate — and accounting for the empty nights that pull the raw average down — produces a RevPAR figure of about $89 per available night, which is the single number that best captures how a typical listing actually performed once both pricing and vacancy are factored in together across the full year.
Those four figures — $21,237 typical revenue, $194 ADR, 44.6 percent occupancy, and $89 RevPAR — are the baseline this entire report builds from, and they're worth memorizing together rather than in isolation. A host who can only recall the revenue figure, without the underlying rate and occupancy that produced it, is working with an incomplete picture of what a typical Cuyahoga Falls listing is actually doing across a full calendar year.
Reading the year-over-year trend
Revenue moved about minus 12.0 percent year over year in this sample, while active listing supply grew roughly 69.7 percent over the same period. That's a meaningfully different signal than flat revenue paired with flat supply — it describes a market absorbing a fast wave of new listings while typical revenue per listing contracts rather than holds steady or grows, which is worth sitting with before anchoring any pricing or purchase decision to this year's $21,237 figure as though it represents a stable or rising baseline.
For a host or a buyer, that combination argues for conservative rather than optimistic revenue assumptions. A market adding new competing supply this quickly, while typical per-listing revenue is falling, is not a market where next year's number should be assumed to simply match or exceed this year's. Whatever pricing or purchase strategy you build from this report should account for that downward revenue trend explicitly, rather than treating $21,237 as a floor rather than a contracting figure.
Who's actually booking, and how far ahead
The typical Cuyahoga Falls stay runs about 4.6 nights, and most guests arrive from Columbus, then Pittsburgh, booking roughly 47 days ahead of arrival. That combination — a shorter multi-night stay booked weeks out rather than same-day — points toward planned regional trips rather than impulse travel, which has real implications for how a host manages turnover costs, cleaning frequency, and pricing strategy across the booking window leading up to a given stay.
A 47-day lead time gives hosts a meaningful window to adjust pricing on open dates without constantly chasing last-minute demand, though it also means a listing's calendar won't fill itself with same-week bookings the way a purely spontaneous leisure market might. Most guests coming from within a two-to-three-hour drive of Columbus or Pittsburgh points toward a regional travel pattern as the dominant guest type here, rather than long-haul visitors, which is worth keeping in mind for anyone building marketing content around a different assumed audience.
Reading the calendar: peaks and the hole
August, October, and June stand out as the strongest revenue months in the extract, giving Cuyahoga Falls a three-month spread of strong performance rather than a single narrow peak weekend to build a whole year's pricing strategy around. February sits at the other end: it's both the slowest month for revenue and the weakest for occupancy in this sample, which makes it the month worth treating differently in pricing and minimum-stay strategy rather than pricing it identically to the rest of the calendar year.
The practical takeaway for pricing is to treat each named month on its own terms rather than applying a single flat rate or a generic seasonal multiplier that doesn't distinguish February's actual weakness from August's actual strength. The extract gives you the specific pattern — lean into August, October, and June, and adjust expectations, and likely minimum stays or rates, for February specifically, rather than assuming flat demand across the shoulder and off-season stretches of the year.
The 30-night minimum question
About 39.3 percent of the 56 active Cuyahoga Falls listings already set a 30-night minimum stay, which sits oddly next to the market's 4.6-night typical stay length. That gap is worth noting directly: a meaningful share of active supply appears to be filtering for a guest type the broader data doesn't show as the dominant one actually booking Cuyahoga Falls right now, and a host or buyer evaluating a specific listing with that setting should ask whether it reflects documented long-stay demand or a defensive workaround.
A 30-night minimum is a platform setting a host chooses, not a measurement of confirmed occupancy or demand. Since typical stay across the whole extract remains about 4.6 nights, a listing running a 30-night filter is, more often than not, screening out the guest type the broader market is actually converting — worth factoring into any analysis of why a specific listing's booking volume looks different from the market average this report describes.
How Cuyahoga Falls compares to Akron
Akron, the nearby municipality most often compared to Cuyahoga Falls, posted typical revenue of about $13,337 across 309 active listings on the same August 2025 through July 2026 extract window. That's a real number from a real, much larger market — Akron's active supply is more than five times Cuyahoga Falls' 56 listings, and its guest pattern differs enough that blending the two into a single regional average would misrepresent both markets rather than clarify either one for a reader.
For a host or buyer deciding between the two markets, the practical reading is straightforward: Cuyahoga Falls carries a smaller listing supply and a higher typical revenue figure per listing than Akron, but that comparison only holds if you rather than averaging them together. Underwriting or pricing a property should always start from the correct town's own extract, not a blended regional figure that dilutes both markets' actual performance into something less accurate than either number alone.
What the registration layer means for this report
None of the revenue figures above say anything about whether a given Cuyahoga Falls listing carries current registration. The city sits under remaining Chapter 163 Transient Occupancy Registration files, administered by the City of Cuyahoga Falls Income Tax Division, and that requirement sits entirely outside what a market extract can measure. A listing counted among the 56 active rentals in this report may or may not hold current registration — the extract simply doesn't carry that information one way or the other, and this report does not guess a permit dollar figure it can't confirm.
Layered on top of city registration is Summit County's lodging excise tax, listed at 5.5 percent on the county fiscal office's own pages, plus Ohio's state sales tax treatment of lodging stays under 30 days at 3 percent county and 3 percent township. Anyone using this report to underwrite a purchase or set pricing should treat the revenue figures and the registration and tax questions as separate due-diligence tracks — confirm remaining registration and current fee schedules directly with the city before assuming a property's listing activity reflects a stable, compliant operation.
A discrepancy in the underlying research, flagged directly
One figure in the source research behind this report deserves a direct flag rather than a silent correction: a single reference cites 18 active rentals alongside the same $21,237 revenue figure, while every other reference in the same research — repeated consistently across multiple independent mentions — ties that $21,237 figure to 56 active listings. This report uses 56 throughout, since it's the number that appears consistently across the underlying material, but readers doing independent diligence should know the source data contains this inconsistency.
Pull your own current listing count for Cuyahoga Falls short-term rentals from a live data platform before finalizing any pricing or purchase decision built on this report. Treat the $21,237 revenue figure as directionally accurate and genuinely useful rather than as a precision figure verified to the dollar. The seasonality, ADR, occupancy, and RevPAR figures elsewhere in this report were consistent across every reference in the underlying research and don't carry this same flag.
Why RevPAR is the number that keeps everyone honest
It's easy to quote whichever figure makes a market look best — a high ADR sounds great in isolation, and strong peak-month occupancy sounds great in isolation, but neither tells the full story on its own. RevPAR, at about $89 per available night in Cuyahoga Falls, forces both variables together: it can't be inflated by a rate that only holds for a handful of nights, and it can't be inflated by occupancy achieved only through steep discounting across the calendar.
That makes RevPAR the most defensible number for comparing your own listing's performance against the market baseline, or for comparing Cuyahoga Falls against a neighboring town like Akron. A listing reporting strong ADR but weak occupancy, or strong occupancy achieved only well under $194 a night, isn't necessarily underperforming the market in the way it might first appear — but it's also not necessarily outperforming it either, and RevPAR is the figure that resolves that ambiguity for anyone comparing listings honestly.
Putting the report to work
The most useful way to apply this data is to anchor your own projections to the specific figures rather than rounding them into a vaguer impression. If you're pricing a Cuyahoga Falls listing, start from $194 as your baseline nightly rate, model occupancy around 44.6 percent unless you have a specific reason to expect better, and expect RevPAR near $89 unless your unit has a clear advantage over the median. Build your calendar around August, October, and June as your strongest months, and plan a deliberate strategy for February specifically, since the extract shows it as a genuine hole rather than a rounding artifact in the data.
If you're comparing Cuyahoga Falls to a nearby market, use Akron's $13,337-on-309-listings figure as a distinct reference point, not a stand-in for Cuyahoga Falls' own number. And whatever your revenue projection ends up being, remember it says nothing about registration status — that's a separate conversation with the City of Cuyahoga Falls Income Tax Division, one that has to happen regardless of how favorable the market numbers in this report look on their own.
What a fast-growing supply base means for existing hosts
A 69.7 percent year-over-year increase in active listings represents a genuinely fast pace of new supply entering a single market, and it changes the competitive calculus for anyone already operating a Cuyahoga Falls listing. Faster-growing supply generally puts downward pressure on occupancy and rate for existing listings, particularly ones that haven't kept pace with newer, better-photographed, more aggressively priced competition — and the minus 12.0 percent revenue trend on this same extract is consistent with that kind of pressure already showing up in the topline figure.
For an existing host, the practical response isn't panic but deliberate differentiation: reviewing pricing against the current $194 ADR baseline rather than an outdated internal assumption, refreshing photography and listing content to compete with newer entrants, and paying closer attention to the seasonal calendar this report lays out rather than coasting on a strategy that worked when supply was smaller and competition for the same 4.6-night guest was less intense than it is in this sample's current numbers.
What this report intentionally does not cover
This market report is deliberately narrow in scope — it covers revenue, occupancy, rate, seasonality, listing supply, and the registration and tax layer at a summary level, and nothing beyond that. It intentionally does not cover visitor attractions, guest-guide content, remote-work demand specifics, or a detailed shoulder-season pricing strategy, each of which deserves its own dedicated research rather than a passing mention here that risks blending categories that should stay separate for accuracy and usefulness.
If you're building a complete picture of the Cuyahoga Falls short-term rental opportunity, treat this report as one input among several: the performance baseline, sitting alongside a separate compliance check with the City of Cuyahoga Falls Income Tax Division, a separate look at seasonal guest demand and shoulder-season pricing, and a separate read of what actually draws visitors to the area in the first place, each maintained and updated on its own timeline rather than folded into a single document.
A note on independent listings versus larger operators
Independent hosts still write most of this 56-listing desk, according to the underlying research behind this report, which is worth noting for anyone assuming a market this size is dominated by large-scale professional management operations. That matters for interpreting the figures above: a market shaped primarily by independent, often owner-operated listings can behave differently than one dominated by a handful of large management companies running dozens of units apiece with more aggressive, centralized pricing tools.
For an independent host reading this report, that means the $21,237 typical revenue figure and its surrounding numbers describe a market where individual pricing decisions, photography quality, and guest-communication effort genuinely matter to outcomes, rather than one where a few large operators set the market and everyone else is a price-taker. That's a real opportunity for a host willing to price actively against this report's monthly pattern rather than defaulting to a flat, unmanaged rate across the calendar year.
How this report should be refreshed over time
This report reflects the August 2025 through July 2026 extract specifically, and given the minus 12.0 percent year-over-year revenue movement and 69.7 percent supply growth already documented on this same window, the underlying figures are likely to keep moving rather than hold static. Treat the $21,237 typical revenue figure, the $194 ADR, and the 44.6 percent occupancy rate as this year's confirmed baseline, not a permanent constant, and revisit this report — or pull a fresh extract directly — before making a major pricing or purchase decision more than a few months out from today.
The seasonal pattern of August, October, and June as peaks and February as the hole is likely more stable year to year than the headline revenue figure, since it reflects underlying travel and weather patterns rather than shifting supply and demand balances. Use this report's specific numbers as your current working baseline, and stay alert to newer data as it becomes available, rather than treating any single extract as a fixed, permanent read on the Cuyahoga Falls market.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much did a typical Cuyahoga Falls short-term rental earn last year?
About $21,237 in typical annual revenue, based on Air ROI's August 2025 through July 2026 extract of 56 active listings. That figure works out to roughly $194 a night at 44.6 percent occupancy, or about $89 in revenue per available night once empty nights are averaged into the RevPAR figure across the full year covered by the extract.
What's the average nightly rate in Cuyahoga Falls?
About $194 per night, at 44.6 percent occupancy, which works out to roughly $89 in revenue per available night. Those three figures together — rate, occupancy, and RevPAR — give a more complete picture of typical listing performance than any single number quoted alone would provide, and they're the baseline this entire report is built around.
Is Cuyahoga Falls' short-term rental market growing or shrinking?
Both directions are moving at once. Revenue fell about minus 12.0 percent year over year in this sample, while active listing supply grew roughly 69.7 percent over the same period, pointing toward a market absorbing a fast wave of new listings while typical revenue per listing contracts rather than holds steady or climbs alongside it.
How long do guests typically stay in Cuyahoga Falls?
About 4.6 nights on average, with most guests arriving from Columbus, then Pittsburgh, and booking roughly 47 days ahead of arrival. That combination points toward planned regional trips rather than same-day or impulse travel as the dominant guest type in this specific market, according to the full underlying extract data covering this whole twelve-month window.
Which months perform best for Cuyahoga Falls hosts?
August, October, and June stand out as the strongest revenue months in this sample, giving hosts a three-month spread of strong performance rather than one narrow peak. February is the clear weak point for both revenue and occupancy, and should be priced and managed as its own deliberate strategy rather than defaulted to the annual average rate.
How does Cuyahoga Falls compare to Akron?
Akron posted about $13,337 in typical revenue across 309 active listings on the same extract window, compared to Cuyahoga Falls' $21,237 across 56 listings. The two markets should be evaluated separately rather than blended together, since Akron's supply is more than five times larger and its guest pattern differs meaningfully from this town's own pattern.
Does this report confirm registration status for Cuyahoga Falls listings?
No. This is a market-performance report built from an active-listings extract. Registration status is a separate matter handled by the City of Cuyahoga Falls Income Tax Division under remaining Chapter 163 Transient Occupancy Registration files, and this report doesn't guess a fee figure it can't confirm from the underlying confirmed source research material available to it.
What taxes apply to Cuyahoga Falls short-term rentals?
Summit County applies a 5.5 percent lodging excise tax, and Ohio applies sales tax to lodging stays under 30 days at 3 percent county plus 3 percent township. Both are recurring obligations worth netting out of gross revenue when evaluating a listing's actual returns, rather than treating gross revenue alone as the real net number.
Why do some listings use a 30-night minimum if typical stays are shorter?
About 39.3 percent of the 56 active listings set a 30-night minimum despite a market-wide 4.6-night typical stay. That gap suggests some hosts are filtering for long-stay guests who aren't the dominant booking pattern here, and it's worth asking directly whether that setting reflects documented demand or simply a defensive, precautionary choice on their part.
Is $21,237 the maximum a Cuyahoga Falls listing could earn?
No, it represents typical performance across the sample of 56 active listings in this sample. Individual results vary based on unit type, location, management quality, and pricing discipline, and the minus 12.0 percent year-over-year trend argues strongly for conservative rather than optimistic assumptions built above this specific confirmed baseline figure entirely, going forward from today.
Why does this report mention both 56 and 18 as a listing count?
The source research contains one reference to 18 active rentals alongside the same $21,237 figure, while every other reference ties that figure to 56 listings. This report uses 56 consistently, since it's the number repeated across the underlying material, but flags the discrepancy so readers can verify it independently rather than simply assume it's settled.
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Use this report's figures — $194 ADR, 44.6 percent occupancy, $89 RevPAR — as your Cuyahoga Falls pricing baseline, and confirm registration status separately with the City of Cuyahoga Falls Income Tax Division before you list or close on any property. Name the failure mode the guest can check on the listing.
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