Glossary

The words used on this site, defined once, in the sense they have here.

Listing: One advertisement in the Inside Airbnb file. One property can appear in several listings, and one host can hold many; a listing is not a dwelling.
Entire home: A listing where the guest has the whole home to themselves (type "Entire home/apt"), as opposed to a private room, a shared room or a hotel room.
Active entire home: An entire home with at least one review in the twelve months before the snapshot and an asking price above zero and below 2,000 in local currency. All price, nights and revenue figures use this base.
Dormant listing: An entire home with no review in the twelve months before the snapshot. It is still visible, but shows no sign of recent stays.
Snapshot: The date on which Inside Airbnb collected a city's listings. Every figure on this site describes the listings visible on that date.
Asking price per night: The price shown on the listing on the snapshot date, before cleaning and service fees, in local currency. Not the price actually paid by guests.
Nights booked (estimated): Inside Airbnb's estimate of nights booked over the last 365 days, derived from reviews, an assumed review rate and an assumed average stay, capped at 70% of the year (255 nights).
Estimated occupancy: Estimated nights booked divided by 365. A readability aid, not a measured occupancy rate.
Gross revenue (estimated): Inside Airbnb's estimate of revenue over the last 365 days, from asking price and estimated nights, before any fee, cost or levy.
Median: The middle value: half of the homes are above it, half below. Less sensitive to extreme values than an average.
Quartiles and middle half: The lower quartile has 25% of homes below it, the upper quartile 75%. Between the two lies the middle half of homes.
Host portfolio: The number of listings a host has in the same city, as counted by Inside Airbnb, including listings of other types.
Minimum stay: The minimum number of nights a listing accepts per booking, as set by the host on the snapshot date.
Seasonality profile: The share of each calendar month in reviews written over 24 complete months. A flat year would give 8.3% per month.
Threshold: The minimum group size below which a figure is not shown: 25 active homes for an area, 30 for a segment.