California Airbnb & short-term-rental permit leads
24,522 short-term-rental permit records for California (CA), pulled from official government registers and updated continuously. A licensed operator with a permit on file is a far better lead than a scraped Airbnb listing.
- Licensed operators from California government registers, not scraped listings
- 19,413 with a phone and 101 with an email · straight from the public record
- The newest records are shown below, before you buy
Counts refreshed 2026-10-23 from the live database.
Newest California records
Real rows from the California file. Individual owners are shortened and phones and emails are masked on this page; your download has every field in full.
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These are public-record business contacts. You are responsible for your own TCPA, CAN-SPAM and Do-Not-Call compliance when contacting anyone on the list — see our plain-English compliance guide. Idaho and Iowa are excluded because those states preempted local STR permitting.
Where California's STR permit data comes from
California has no statewide short-term-rental license; every city and county runs its own program. Our California file is built register by register: San Diego's STRO licenses, San Bernardino County permits around Big Bear and Joshua Tree, Sonoma County's vacation-rental permits, El Dorado County around South Lake Tahoe, and more.
Live page for each California register, with its field coverage and permit rule: San Diego STRO (Short-Term Residential Occupancy) Licenses (8,850 records), San Bernardino CA STR (5,328 records), Sonoma CA STR (2,424 records), Marin County CA Registered Active Short Term Rentals (1,594 records), City of Sacramento Active Short Term Rental Permits (539 records), Sonoma County Vacation Rental Licenses (grandfathered / exempt list) (506 records), City of Santa Barbara Permitted Short-Term Rentals (Finance) (255 records), Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Short-Term Rental Certificates (TTC) (211 records).
19,420 of the 24,522 records include a phone or email straight from the public record — 19,413 with a phone, 101 with an email — ready to load into your CRM or dialer.
California permit records in numbers
19,413 of the 24,522 California records (79%) list a phone and 101 (under 1%) an email; 94 carry both. The national file as a whole sits at 44% with a phone, 35 points lower.
The register files them by type: Tier 3 (5,115, 21%), Tier 2 (2,478, 10%) and Vacation Rental (1,960, 8%).
"Active" covers 7,789 California records, followed by "Done" (2,379) and "VHR Permit- Closed" (752).
Filing dates run from January 3, 2011 to October 16, 2026. 2026 is already the busiest year, with 1,447 records so far against 1,336 for all of 2025. Twelve-month filings: 1,806, or 7% of California. The newest California record arrived on October 23, 2026; 1,039 arrived in the last 30 days.
Multi-property holders: 647 names, 2,633 records (11% of California), top holder 62 addresses. By town: San Diego (8,145), Big Bear Lake Area (1,113) and Joshua Tree (1,088) lead the 70 towns with 10 or more records. 2,618 of the 79-ZIP spread sit in 92109.
California short-term rental rules
San Diego defines short-term residential occupancy (STRO) as using a home or a portion of one for under a month, and since May 1, 2023, operating one without a STRO license is unlawful.
Source: Office of the City Treasurer, City of San Diego, read on October 22, 2026.
Program page: San Bernardino County. Its site blocks automated reads, so the rules are linked here rather than restated.
Permit Sonoma says a vacation rental must have a certified property manager, a transient vacation rental zoning permit, a transient occupancy tax number, and a vacation rental license.
Source: Permit Sonoma, County of Sonoma, read on October 22, 2026.
Towns with the most California records
| Town | Records | With phone |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego | 8,145 | 100% |
| Big Bear Lake Area | 1,113 | 100% |
| Joshua Tree | 1,088 | 100% |
| Lake Arrowhead | 853 | 100% |
| La Jolla | 663 | 100% |
| Sacramento | 539 | 100% |
| Cambria | 377 | 0% |
| Sugarloaf | 362 | 100% |
Permit and license types
| Type as published | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 3 | 5,115 | 21% |
| Tier 2 | 2,478 | 10% |
| Vacation Rental | 1,960 | 8% |
| Short-term rental registration | 1,594 | 7% |
| Transient Rentals - Vacation | 1,424 | 6% |
| Tier 4 | 1,107 | 5% |
Registers behind this page
- San Diego STRO licenses 8,850 records here
- San Bernardino County STR permits 5,328 records here
- Sonoma County vacation rental permits 2,424 records here
- Marin County CA Registered Active Short Term Rentals 1,594 records here
- City of Sacramento Active Short Term Rental Permits 539 records here
- Sonoma County Vacation Rental Licenses (grandfathered / exempt list) 506 records here
California markets we cover in depth
Each market page shows the live record count and the register behind it.
California cities with their own page
2 California cities have a page with ZIP-level counts, permit types and how each compares with the state. Together they hold 1,202 of the 24,522 California records.
"addr" marks an address-level city: the register publishes no phone or email there. All city pages.
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