Vicksburg STR Market Report 2026: What 101 Listings Earned
Vicksburg hosts do not need another slogan about the river or the bluffs. They need the number that actually sits on this year's file: typical listings in Vicksburg earned about $18,627 last year, drawn from 101 active rentals on AirROI's extract filed as August 2025 through July 2026. That figure is the anchor for this report, and every section below builds off it rather than around it.
This report stays inside that one window. It does not reach back into an earlier year and call it the same period, and it does not borrow a Jackson number to pad a Vicksburg sentence. Vicksburg sits in Warren County, inside the City of Vicksburg, and the 101 listings behind this figure are the active supply counted on that same extract.
What follows is a plain accounting of where $18,627 comes from, what the average daily rate and occupancy behind it look like, which months carry the year and which one drags it down, who is actually booking these stays, and where this report stops short because the source data stops short. That last part matters as much as the headline number. This pass does not guess a Vicksburg STR permit dollar, and it will not manufacture one here either.
Read the sections in order if this is the first Vicksburg report a given host has opened this year. Read them out of order, straight to the tax and licensing sections, if the goal is simply to confirm what this report can and cannot answer before a call to the City Clerk. Either way, the $18,627 figure and the 101-listing count behind it stay the same anchor throughout. This is not legal advice.
Where the $18,627 Comes From
The $18,627 figure is a typical-listing number, not a top-performer number and not a portfolio total. It reflects what a representative active rental earned across the twelve months covered by AirROI's extract, filed for the window running August 2025 through July 2026. Active supply on that same extract sits at 101 listings, which is the denominator behind this figure and the number to keep next to it whenever the $18,627 figure gets quoted elsewhere.
For comparison purposes only, and kept on its own line rather than folded into the Vicksburg total, Jackson listings earned about $11,537 last year from 400 active rentals on the same August 2025 through July 2026 extract. The two numbers describe two different markets with two different supply counts, and a host underwriting a Vicksburg property should not average the two or treat the larger Jackson supply as a proxy for Vicksburg demand.
It is worth naming what a typical-listing figure is not, because the distinction changes how a host should use it. It is not the ceiling a well-run, well-priced, well-photographed listing can reach in this market, and it is not the floor a neglected listing will fall to either. It is the midpoint across 101 active rentals of every size, condition, and pricing strategy, which means a host with a strong location, a clean product, and disciplined pricing has real room to sit above it, while a host with a weak listing description or a poorly maintained property has just as much room to sit below it.
ADR, Occupancy, and RevPAR Behind the Headline
Behind the $18,627 typical-earnings figure sit three supporting numbers from the same extract. Average daily rate runs about $181. Occupancy runs about 33.0 percent. RevPAR, the blended figure that multiplies rate against occupancy, comes out to about $64. Those three numbers are the mechanics that produce the headline figure, and a host modeling a specific property should check a projected nightly rate and expected occupancy against these baselines rather than against a national or regional average that was never built from Vicksburg supply.
Occupancy at 33.0 percent is a full-year blended figure, not a peak-month figure and not a floor. It already carries the slow months in it, which is why the next section on seasonality matters for anyone trying to translate the annual figure into a month-by-month calendar.
A quick sanity check ties these three numbers together: an ADR of about $181 multiplied by an occupancy rate of about 33.0 percent lands close to the $64 RevPAR figure, and RevPAR multiplied across 365 nights lands in the neighborhood of the $18,627 typical-earnings figure once normal seasonal variance is accounted for. A host who sees a modeled projection drift far outside that arithmetic, in either direction, should treat that as a signal to re-check the assumptions behind the model rather than assume the extract is wrong.
Peak Months and the January Hole
in this sample, September, March, and February are the strongest months for Vicksburg listings. January is the revenue hole, the single weakest month on the file. A host building a twelve-month pricing calendar should expect the year to lean on those three peak months and should not price January as though it carries the same weight as September.
This shape, three strong months carrying a soft winter month, is common in markets anchored by a single major attraction rather than a broad calendar of festivals and conventions. It does not mean Vicksburg has no winter demand at all. It means the extract shows January underperforming the rest of the year, and any twelve-month revenue projection built off the $18,627 typical-year figure should account for that dip rather than smoothing it flat across all twelve months.
A practical use of this pattern is calendar-based pricing rather than a flat year-round rate. A host who raises rates modestly into September, March, and February, while pulling back on rate expectations and leaning on length-of-stay discounts through January, is working with the extract rather than against it. That is a different strategy than simply setting one nightly rate on January first and leaving it untouched for twelve months, which tends to either overprice the slow month or underprice the strong ones.
Who Is Booking These Stays
Most guests in this sample arrive from Austin, with Vicksburg itself as the next most common origin point, meaning a meaningful share of demand is regional or local rather than long-haul. Typical stay length runs about 4.7 nights, and typical booking lead time runs about 54 days, which is a reasonably healthy planning window for a host setting pricing and availability rules well ahead of arrival rather than scrambling on last-minute bookings.
Superhost share in this sample runs about 69.3 percent, and professionally managed share runs about 2.0 percent, which means independent hosts still write most of this 101-listing supply. That is a meaningfully different competitive picture than a market dominated by professional management companies, and it means an individual host's own responsiveness and listing quality carry real weight against the field rather than getting drowned out by a handful of large operators.
A 54-day average lead time also has a direct pricing implication. It gives a host roughly seven to eight weeks of visibility into a given date before the bulk of bookings land, which is enough runway to adjust rates dynamically as a date fills in, rather than guessing at demand the week of arrival. A host who is not currently reviewing and adjusting pricing on that kind of weekly cadence is likely leaving revenue on the table relative to what this booking pattern supports.
A Registration Note This Report Will Not Fill In
This pass does not guess a Vicksburg STR permit dollar. The extract behind this report tracks revenue, rate, occupancy, and guest behavior, not permit fees or renewal costs, and no confirmed permit-fee figure for short-term rentals in the City of Vicksburg is available inside this data source. Hosts should not treat that silence as an all-clear. It means the fee, if one currently applies to a given parcel, needs to be confirmed directly rather than assumed from this report or from a listing-platform scrape.
What this report can say, sourced from the same research pass, is that Vicksburg sits under remaining City of Vicksburg privilege-license files, that a landlord of five or more rental units is required to obtain a privilege license under Mississippi Code Annotated 27-17-1, and that stays under 31 days still sit under those same city privilege-license files rather than falling outside them. None of that is a substitute for a phone call to the City Clerk before a listing goes live, and none of it should be quoted as a dollar figure this report does not have.
Two Tax Lines Worth Knowing Before Pricing
Two tax lines sit on the county and city pages behind this research. The Vicksburg Economic, Recreation and Tourism Development Tax runs 2 percent on room rentals of hotels and motels of six or more guest rooms. The Warren County Tourism Promotion Tax runs 1 percent. Whether a given short-term rental parcel falls inside the six-or-more-room hotel definition used on the Department of Revenue pages is a parcel-specific question, not a blanket answer this report can supply, and it is worth confirming at the same time a host confirms the privilege-license question above.
These two figures are tax rates, not licensing fees, and they should not get mixed together when a host is building a pricing model. A tax rate applies to collected room revenue; a licensing fee, if one applies, is typically a flat annual cost independent of how many nights actually book. Keeping the two on separate lines in a spreadsheet avoids the kind of blended-cost error that makes a startup budget look wrong in either direction.
A simple worked example illustrates the difference without guessing a fee this report does not have. On $18,627 in typical annual revenue, a combined 3 percent tax load, if the parcel is confirmed to fall under the applicable definitions, works out to roughly $559 in tax across the year. That figure is a rate applied to actual collected revenue, and it says nothing about whether a separate flat licensing cost also applies to the same property. Those are two different lines on two different budgets, and this report keeps them that way rather than folding them into a single estimated startup cost.
Reading Vicksburg Against Two Other Coastal Reports
Two other 2026 market reports built from the same style of extract are worth naming here only as reference points, never as a blend into the Vicksburg figure. An Ocean Springs STR Report 2026 puts that market's typical figure at about $28,820, and a comparable Gulf Coast report puts its market at about $25,594. Both sit well above Vicksburg's $18,627, which is a reasonable thing for a host to know while comparison-shopping markets, but neither report changes what the Vicksburg extract actually says about the 101 listings behind this page.
The point of naming those figures here is not to suggest Vicksburg should chase a coastal number it is not built to hit. Vicksburg's demand is anchored by a different draw, with the National Military Park functioning as the visitor demand driver rather than a beach, and its guest base, booking window, and seasonal pattern are shaped accordingly. A host who tries to price a Vicksburg listing off a coastal ADR is very likely to overprice the calendar and lose the bookings that the $181 ADR figure shows this market actually supports.
What a 30-Night Minimum Signals in this sample
About 19.8 percent of listings in this sample set a 30-night minimum, which is a meaningfully different product than the 4.7-night typical stay described above. A 30-night-minimum listing is effectively targeting a monthly or extended-stay guest rather than a leisure traveler visiting the National Military Park or passing through on a shorter trip, and it should not get folded into the same occupancy or ADR conversation as the shorter-stay majority of the 101-listing supply.
A host deciding between the two models should treat this as a genuine strategy fork rather than a minor listing setting. The $181 ADR and 33.0 percent occupancy figures above reflect the blended extract, which includes both stay lengths, so a host running a strict 30-night-minimum product should expect a different occupancy pattern and a different pricing conversation than a host running a typical short-stay listing.
There is also a registration angle worth flagging here rather than assuming away. Since stays under 31 days still sit under remaining city privilege-license files, a host who believes a 30-night minimum sidesteps local registration requirements should not rely on that assumption without confirming it directly with the City Clerk. A 30-night minimum changes the guest profile and the pricing math; it does not, on the evidence in front of this report, automatically change which city files apply to the property.
Using This Report to Underwrite a Listing
A host underwriting a Vicksburg listing this year should carry four figures together rather than quoting the headline alone: $18,627 typical annual earnings, on 101 active listings, from the August 2025 through July 2026 AirROI extract, alongside the supporting $181 ADR, 33.0 percent occupancy, and $64 RevPAR. Year over year in this sample, revenue moved up about 5.4 percent while supply held roughly steady, which is a modest but real growth signal rather than a market flooding with new competing listings.
Jackson's $11,537 figure on 400 listings belongs on a separate line in that underwriting model, cited only as a neighboring-market reference and never blended into a Vicksburg number. The same discipline applies to the permit-fee and licensing questions above: this report supplies what the extract and the city and county pages actually show, and it flags, rather than guesses at the one figure the source data does not carry. A listing brief that names the National Military Park as visitor demand, not occupancy, and pairs that with the confirmed revenue and tax figures above, is the version of this report that actually holds up against a City Clerk conversation and a booking calendar built for 2026.
Put together, the underwriting checklist looks like this: confirm the parcel's privilege-license status and any applicable fee at the City of Vicksburg before signing a lease or listing a property; confirm whether the Vicksburg 2 percent and Warren County 1 percent tax lines apply to the specific room-count and property type in question; build a twelve-month calendar that leans into September, March, and February and pulls back through the January hole; and price the calendar against the $181 ADR and 33.0 percent occupancy baselines rather than a number imported from a coastal market or from Jackson. A host who works through that sequence in order, rather than starting with furniture or photography, is far less likely to discover a licensing gap after the listing is already live and taking bookings.
Independent Hosts Versus Professional Management in this sample
With professionally managed share in this sample sitting at about 2.0 percent, the overwhelming majority of the 101 active listings behind the $18,627 figure are run by independent hosts rather than management companies. That has a direct competitive implication: in a market this thin on professional management, a host who treats the listing like a small business, with prompt guest communication, accurate calendar management, and a description that actually names the walk to the National Military Park or downtown Vicksburg, is competing against a field where most other operators are doing the same thing on a part-time basis rather than at scale.
It also means the Superhost badge, held by about 69.3 percent of listings in this sample, carries real signal value in a market this size. A new host entering Vicksburg should treat the first several months of hosting, and the guest-review record built during them, as a meaningful investment toward that badge rather than an afterthought, since a large majority of the competing supply already carries it.
None of this changes the headline number this report opened with. It only explains who is behind the 101 listings that produced it. A market where independent hosts write nearly all of the supply, where the typical stay runs 4.7 nights with a 54-day lead time, and where the year leans on three named peak months against one clear January hole is a market with a legible, learnable shape. The $18,627 figure is the summary of that shape, and everything above it is the detail a host actually needs before treating that summary as a plan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much did typical Vicksburg listings earn last year?
Typical listings in Vicksburg earned about $18,627 last year, drawn from 101 active rentals on AirROI's extract filed as August 2025 through July 2026. That figure is a typical-listing average across the full twelve-month window, not a top performer's total and not a portfolio-wide sum. It sits alongside supporting figures of about $181 ADR, 33.0 percent occupancy, and $64 RevPAR from the same extract, and it should always be quoted with the 101-listing supply count next to it.
Is a Vicksburg STR permit fee confirmed anywhere in this data?
No. This pass does not guess a Vicksburg STR permit dollar, and no confirmed permit-fee figure is available inside the AirROI extract or the city and county pages behind this research. What is confirmed is that a landlord of five or more rental units must obtain a privilege license under Mississippi Code Annotated 27-17-1, and that stays under 31 days still sit under city privilege-license files. Any actual fee amount needs a direct confirmation call to the City Clerk.
How does Vicksburg compare to Jackson in this sample?
Jackson listings earned about $11,537 last year from 400 active rentals on the same August 2025 through July 2026 window, compared to Vicksburg's $18,627 on 101 listings. The two markets should be read on separate lines rather than averaged together, since they carry different supply counts, different guest bases, and different local tax and licensing files. Jackson's figure is useful only as a neighboring-market reference point, not as a Vicksburg substitute.
What are the two tax rates that apply to Vicksburg room rentals?
The Vicksburg Economic, Recreation and Tourism Development Tax runs 2 percent on room rentals of hotels and motels of six or more guest rooms, and the Warren County Tourism Promotion Tax runs 1 percent. Whether a specific short-term rental parcel falls under the six-or-more-room hotel definition used on the Department of Revenue pages is a parcel-specific question that should be confirmed directly rather than assumed, since these are tax rates and not a substitute for licensing confirmation.
Which months carry the Vicksburg revenue year?
in this sample, September, March, and February are the strongest months for Vicksburg listings, while January is the clear revenue hole for the year. A twelve-month pricing calendar should weight those three peak months more heavily and should not price January the same as the stronger months. The 33.0 percent occupancy figure is a full-year blended number that already reflects this uneven month-to-month pattern rather than a flat, even calendar.
Who is actually booking Vicksburg short-term rentals?
Most guests in this sample arrive from Austin, with Vicksburg itself as the next most common origin, showing a real mix of long-haul and regional demand. Typical stay length runs about 4.7 nights with about a 54-day booking lead time. Superhost share sits at about 69.3 percent and professionally managed share at about 2.0 percent, meaning independent hosts still write the large majority of this 101-listing supply rather than management companies.
What does a 30-night minimum mean for occupancy in this sample?
About 19.8 percent of Vicksburg listings in this sample set a 30-night minimum, which targets a monthly or extended-stay guest rather than the 4.7-night typical leisure stay most of the supply books. That is a distinct product strategy, and it should not be folded into the same occupancy or ADR read as the shorter-stay majority. A host choosing that model should expect a different booking pattern than the blended $181 ADR and 33.0 percent occupancy figures describe.
Did Vicksburg supply grow or shrink year over year in this sample?
Year over year, revenue in this sample moved up about 5.4 percent while supply held roughly steady at 101 listings. That is a modest growth signal rather than a market being flooded with new competing listing stock, and it is a relevant data point for a host weighing whether now is a reasonable time to enter the Vicksburg market or expand an existing listing.
Where does the National Military Park fit into this revenue report?
The National Military Park is named in this sample as visitor demand, not as an occupancy or revenue figure in its own right. It explains part of why guests travel to Vicksburg, but it is not a substitute for the $18,627 typical-earnings figure, the $181 ADR, or the 33.0 percent occupancy number. Guest-facing copy can reference the park as a draw; a revenue model should still be built from the confirmed extract figures above.
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