Stroudsburg, PA Short-Term Rental Market Report: 2026

Sep 2

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Delaware Water Gap ridgeline and Delaware River valley near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Wikimedia: Delaware Water Gap aerial view.jpg

Stroudsburg short-term rentals produced about $35,590 in typical annual revenue last year, drawn from a set of 34 active listings on Air ROI's extract covering August 2025 through July 2026. That is the single number this report is built around, and every other figure below — the nightly rate, the occupancy percentage, the revenue-per-available-night calculation, the seasonal pattern — exists to explain how that headline number was assembled rather than to replace it. Hosts who are underwriting a Stroudsburg purchase, pricing a listing for the first time, or simply trying to figure out whether their own numbers are in the normal range should start here and treat everything that follows as supporting detail.

This is a one-town report. Scranton shows up in a few places below because Air ROI's regional extract puts both markets on the same file, and because comparison shoppers searching for Pocono-region numbers tend to search both names together. But Scranton's figures are not Stroudsburg's figures, they do not get averaged together, and a listing priced off a blended number from both towns will be priced wrong for whichever town it actually sits in. Every Scranton figure in this report appears on its own line, labeled as Scranton, and never folded into a Stroudsburg total.

This report is written for three overlapping readers: a host already operating in Stroudsburg who wants a reality check against their own year-end numbers, a prospective buyer trying to underwrite a Stroudsburg purchase before making an offer, and a manager or marketer setting listing rates and minimum-stay policy for a client property. Each of those readers should walk away with the same core numbers — $35,590 typical revenue, $383 ADR, 34.0 percent occupancy, $125 RevPAR — but each will apply them slightly differently depending on whether the question is "is my listing underperforming," "does the math work on this purchase," or "what should this property be priced at in July versus March."

The window matters as much as the number. Air ROI filed this sample for the twelve months running August 2025 through July 2026, and the $35,590 figure, the $383 average nightly rate, and the 34.0 percent occupancy reading are all pulled from that same twelve-month stretch. A different filing window would produce different figures, so if you are comparing this report against a number you found somewhere else, check that the other source is using a comparable period before assuming either number is wrong. This is not legal advice.

The Headline Number: $35,590 on 34 Listings

Typical Stroudsburg listings earned about $35,590 last year, and that figure sits on top of 34 active rentals identified in Air ROI's August 2025 through July 2026 extract. "Typical" here means the extract's central measure of what an active listing brought in over the full twelve months, not the top-performing property in the set and not a theoretical maximum. A well-positioned three-bedroom near the walkable core of town, booked consistently through peak season, can and does outperform this figure. A less competitively priced listing in a quieter pocket of the market can land below it. The $35,590 figure is the middle of that range, which makes it a reasonable starting point for underwriting but a poor stand-in for what any single property will actually do.

Thirty-four active listings is a modest supply base compared with larger regional markets, and that smaller denominator is worth sitting with for a moment. In a market with a few hundred active listings, one or two outlier properties barely move the typical-revenue figure. In a market with 34 listings, a handful of unusually strong or unusually weak performers can shift the number more noticeably. That does not make the $35,590 figure unreliable, but it does mean hosts should treat it as a directional benchmark rather than a precise forecast, and should build their own pricing model off comparable properties in town rather than off this single aggregate figure alone.

One flag before moving on. The same Air ROI extract that produced the 34-listing count for Stroudsburg also contains a separate line reporting 33 active listings against the identical $35,590 revenue figure. Those two counts cannot both be exactly right, and this report is not going to quietly pick one and present it as settled fact. We are using 34 listings here because it is the count that recurs most often across the rest of the extract's tables, but a host who needs the exact current supply count for a specific underwriting decision should confirm current active-listing volume against a live platform search rather than leaning on either number from this file.

Rate, Occupancy, and RevPAR Together

Three numbers together explain how $35,590 gets built: an average nightly rate of $383, an occupancy rate of 34.0 percent, and a revenue-per-available-night figure of $125. None of the three tells the full story on its own. The $383 rate looks strong in isolation, but it only becomes revenue on the nights a listing is actually booked, and at 34.0 percent occupancy, roughly two out of every three available nights across the year go unbooked. The $125 RevPAR figure is the number that folds rate and occupancy together into a single per-available-night average, and it is the figure most useful for comparing Stroudsburg against another market on an apples-to-apples basis.

For a host pricing a new listing, the practical takeaway is that a high nightly rate alone does not guarantee strong annual revenue if occupancy lags behind it. A listing priced well above $383 a night in a market where the typical occupancy sits at 34.0 percent needs a genuinely compelling reason for guests to choose it over a comparably priced alternative — a location advantage, a standout amenity, professional photography, or a combination of all three. Absent that edge, an aggressively priced listing risks pushing occupancy down further and landing below the $125 RevPAR benchmark rather than above it.

Independent hosts still make up most of the listing set behind these figures, which is worth noting for anyone assuming this market is dominated by large-scale professional management companies running dozens of units apiece. That is not the profile here. Most of the 34 listings behind this report's numbers are run by individual owner-operators, which means the $35,590 typical-revenue figure reflects what an attentive but not necessarily full-time host can expect to earn, not a corporate-scale operation's optimized output.

When Stroudsburg's Revenue Shows Up: Peak Months and the March Hole

Stroudsburg's revenue is not spread evenly across the calendar. The extract identifies June, July, and December as peak months, and March as the clearest revenue hole in the twelve-month window. January is also flagged as a slow revenue month in this sample, distinct from March but sitting in the same general off-peak stretch of the calendar. A host budgeting off the $35,590 annual figure should not divide it evenly by twelve and assume each month will contribute roughly $2,966 — the real distribution is considerably more front-loaded toward summer and the December holiday stretch, with a meaningful trough in early spring.

This seasonal pattern has direct pricing implications. Nightly rates and minimum-stay requirements that make sense in June or during the December holiday period are likely to price a listing out of contention in March, when demand is thinner and guests have more competing options. Hosts who hold rates flat across the calendar, rather than adjusting down through the shoulder and hole months, tend to see occupancy suffer disproportionately in exactly the months where the extract shows demand is already softest.

Cash-flow planning should follow the same logic. A host relying on steady monthly income to cover a mortgage or a management fee needs to build a reserve during the June, July, and December peaks specifically to carry the property through March and January, rather than assuming revenue will arrive in roughly equal monthly installments. Underwriting a Stroudsburg purchase off an assumption of flat monthly revenue is one of the more common ways new hosts overestimate what a listing can reliably deliver.

Who Is Booking Stroudsburg: Origin, Length of Stay, and Minimum Nights

Most Stroudsburg guests in this sample arrive from New York, followed by Philadelphia, and the typical stay runs about 3.1 nights. That combination points toward a short-drive weekend and long-weekend guest base rather than a fly-in vacation market, which has implications for how a listing should be positioned, priced, and photographed. A guest driving up from the New York metro area for a 3.1-night stay is typically booking a getaway, not relocating for an extended remote-work stretch, and listing copy and pricing structures that assume otherwise are working against the grain of the actual guest base.

About 26.5 percent of Stroudsburg listings set a 30-night minimum stay, which is a meaningfully different product than the roughly 3.1-night typical booking driving most of this market's activity. A 30-night minimum is not a variant of short-term hosting with slightly stricter rules — it is effectively a mid-term rental product competing for a different guest and, in many cases, sitting under a different regulatory category entirely. Hosts should not read that 26.5 percent figure as evidence that a 30-night strategy will pull in the same $35,590 typical revenue seen across the shorter-stay majority of the market. It is a different demand pool with its own economics, and this report's headline figures should not be assumed to transfer across the two models.

A listing built around the 3.1-night, New-York-then-Philadelphia guest profile benefits from photography and copy that speak to a short getaway rather than an extended stay: walkable amenities, a clear sense of arrival and departure logistics, and pricing structured around two- and three-night stays rather than week-long discounts that assume a longer visit than the typical guest is actually booking.

Stroudsburg Next to Scranton: Two Separate Files

Scranton listings earned about $14,656 in typical annual revenue last year, drawn from 85 active rentals on the same August 2025 through July 2026 extract used for Stroudsburg's figures. That is less than half of Stroudsburg's $35,590 typical figure, spread across roughly two and a half times as many active listings. The two markets are genuinely different in scale and in typical performance, and neither figure should be used as a stand-in for the other.

This matters most for hosts or investors evaluating both towns as part of a broader Pocono-region search. It is easy, when skimming a regional summary, to let the two markets blur together into a single "Pocono area" impression. The extract itself does not support that blending — Stroudsburg's $35,590 typical revenue and Scranton's $14,656 typical revenue are two separate lines from two separate listing sets, and a pricing or underwriting decision built off an average of the two would misrepresent both markets.

A Data Discrepancy Worth Flagging

One note on the source data before the numbers: the same Air ROI extract that reports 34 active Stroudsburg listings also contains a line reading 33 active listings for the identical revenue figure, and the same file lists Scranton's active-listing count as both 85 and, elsewhere, 1,267. This post uses 34 listings for Stroudsburg and 85 listings for Scranton because those are the counts that recur most consistently across the extract's other tables. We are flagging the discrepancy rather than quietly picking a number and presenting it as settled, and we are not guessing a tiebreaker figure to paper over the gap.

Neither figure changes the core conclusion of this report. Whether Stroudsburg's active-listing base is 33 or 34, and whether Scranton's is 85 or 1,267, the relative gap between Stroudsburg's $35,590 typical revenue and Scranton's $14,656 typical revenue is large enough to hold up under either reading. But hosts making a supply-density argument — for example, judging how competitive a given listing count makes a market — should know the underlying count itself is not fully settled in the source file, and should verify current active supply through a live platform search rather than citing either number as precise.

What This Report Does Not Cover

This report is built entirely from Air ROI's revenue and performance extract. It does not include, and does not attempt to guess at Stroudsburg's short-term rental registration requirements, licensing fees, zoning restrictions, or lodging tax rates. Those figures live in a separate research file for a companion post on this site, and pulling them into a revenue report risks mixing two different kinds of data — market performance and municipal compliance — that should be evaluated and sourced independently.

Anyone using this report to decide whether to buy, list, or continue operating a Stroudsburg short-term rental should treat the $35,590 typical-revenue figure as one input among several, confirm current registration and licensing requirements directly with the Borough of Stroudsburg before advertising, and pressure-test the seasonal pattern described here against their own specific property's location, size, and amenities rather than assuming the town-wide average applies unchanged to any individual listing.

It is also worth remembering that this report describes typical performance across an existing set of active listings, not the ceiling of what a well-run Stroudsburg property can achieve. Professional photography, responsive guest communication, and pricing that flexes with the June-July-December peaks and the March hole described above are all levers a host controls directly, and each of them can move an individual listing above the $35,590 typical figure even in a market where the town-wide average has not changed.

How to Use These Numbers If You're Underwriting a Purchase

For underwriting purposes, treat $35,590 as a typical-year baseline rather than a floor or a ceiling, and build your own projection around the seasonal distribution described above rather than a flat monthly split. Start with the $383 average nightly rate and 34.0 percent occupancy as your rate and fill-rate assumptions, stress-test both downward for a conservative case, and confirm that your projected revenue still covers debt service, insurance, a maintenance reserve, and any management costs before treating a Stroudsburg purchase as cash-flow positive on paper.

Because the active-listing count carries the discrepancy flagged above, do not lean on either the 33 or the 34 figure as a precise measure of competitive density when deciding whether the market is "crowded." Instead, pull a live count of currently active, comparable listings in Stroudsburg at the time you are underwriting, and use this report's revenue, rate, occupancy, and seasonal figures as the performance context around that current supply picture rather than as a complete substitute for it.

Reading These Figures Alongside a Live Comp Set

An extract like this one is a snapshot, not a live feed. By the time you are reading this report, several months may have passed since Air ROI closed out the August 2025 through July 2026 window, and new listings may have entered the Stroudsburg market or existing ones may have exited it. The $35,590 typical-revenue figure, the 34-listing supply count, and the seasonal pattern described above are all still useful as structural context — they tell you how this market tends to behave, which months carry the revenue, and how rate and occupancy interact — but they should not be treated as a live dashboard of current conditions.

Before finalizing a purchase decision or a pricing strategy, pull a current search of active Stroudsburg listings comparable to the property you are evaluating: similar bedroom count, similar distance from the walkable core of town, similar amenity level. Compare their current asking rates and, where visible, their review counts and review dates against the $383 average rate and 34.0 percent occupancy figures in this report. If the live comps look materially different from what this sample describes, trust the live data for your specific pricing decision and treat this report as the seasonal and structural backdrop rather than the final word on current rates.

The same caution applies to the Scranton figures cited throughout this report. A $14,656 typical-revenue figure on either 85 or 1,267 active listings — the count itself is unsettled in the source extract, as noted above — is old news the moment new listings enter or exit that market. If you are evaluating Scranton alongside Stroudsburg as part of a broader Pocono-region search, run the same live-comp exercise there before drawing conclusions about relative opportunity between the two towns.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much did a typical Stroudsburg short-term rental earn last year?

About $35,590 in typical annual revenue, based on Air ROI's extract covering August 2025 through July 2026 across 34 active Stroudsburg listings. That figure breaks down to roughly $383 in average nightly rate at 34.0 percent occupancy, which works out to about $125 in revenue per available night once empty nights are averaged in across the full year. Individual listings can land well above or below this typical figure depending on location, size, and how competitively the property is priced and marketed.

What's the average nightly rate for a Stroudsburg short-term rental?

About $383 per night on average, paired with 34.0 percent occupancy across the extract's twelve-month window. Together those two figures produce a RevPAR, or revenue per available night, of about $125. Rate alone is not a reliable performance measure without also accounting for occupancy, since a high nightly rate paired with low occupancy can still produce lower total revenue than a moderately priced listing that books more consistently across the calendar.

What is Stroudsburg's typical short-term rental occupancy rate?

About 34.0 percent across the August 2025 through July 2026 extract, meaning roughly one in three available nights across the year was booked on a typical active listing. That figure is not evenly distributed across the calendar — occupancy runs meaningfully higher during the June, July, and December peak months and drops off noticeably during the March revenue hole and the slower January stretch identified in the same extract.

Which months are strongest for Stroudsburg short-term rentals?

June, July, and December stand out as peak months in this sample, while March is flagged as the clearest revenue hole and January is also identified as a slow month. Hosts pricing and staffing around the calendar should expect meaningfully stronger demand during the summer stretch and the December holiday period, with a corresponding dip in bookings and revenue during early spring that a flat, evenly distributed pricing strategy will not account for.

How does Stroudsburg compare with Scranton for short-term rental revenue?

Stroudsburg's typical listing earned about $35,590 last year against Scranton's roughly $14,656, both figures pulled from the same August 2025 through July 2026 extract. Scranton's active-listing count is reported inconsistently within the source data, appearing as both 85 and 1,267 in different tables, so that count specifically should be treated as unsettled. The revenue gap between the two towns, however, is large enough to hold regardless of which listing count is accurate.

Is there a discrepancy in how many active listings Stroudsburg has?

Yes. The same extract reports 34 active Stroudsburg listings in most tables but 33 in at least one other line, both tied to the identical $35,590 revenue figure. This report uses 34 because it recurs more consistently across the source file, but we are flagging the inconsistency rather than presenting either number as fully settled. Anyone who needs a precise current count for underwriting should verify active supply through a live platform search rather than citing either figure from this sample.

Who is the typical guest booking a Stroudsburg short-term rental?

Most guests in this sample arrive from New York, followed by Philadelphia, and the typical stay runs about 3.1 nights. That pattern points to a short-drive weekend and long-weekend market rather than a fly-in vacation destination, which has direct implications for how listings should be priced, photographed, and described — copy built around an extended relocation stay is working against the grain of the actual, shorter-stay guest base this data describes.

Do many Stroudsburg listings require a 30-night minimum stay?

About 26.5 percent of listings in the extract set a 30-night minimum, a meaningfully different product from the roughly 3.1-night typical stay driving most bookings in this market. A 30-night minimum functions more like a mid-term rental than a short-term one, often falls under different local rules, and should not be assumed to produce the same $35,590 typical revenue figure seen across the shorter-stay majority of Stroudsburg's active listings.

Does this market report cover Stroudsburg's registration or licensing requirements?

No. This report is built entirely from Air ROI's revenue and performance extract and does not include registration, licensing, zoning, or tax information, which live in a separate research file covered in a companion post on this site. Anyone using these revenue figures to plan a purchase or a new listing should confirm current registration and licensing requirements directly with the Borough of Stroudsburg before advertising a property.

Should I use the $35,590 figure to price my own Stroudsburg listing?

Use it as a starting benchmark, not a guaranteed outcome. The $35,590 figure is a typical, or central, revenue figure across 34 active listings, meaning some properties earned well above it and others fell below it depending on location, size, and pricing strategy. Build your own projection from the $383 average rate and 34.0 percent occupancy figures, adjust for your specific property's competitive position, and stress-test the seasonal pattern described above before treating this figure as a reliable forecast for your listing.

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