Port Aransas Airbnb & short-term-rental permit leads

Port Aransas permit records in numbers

Phones: 898 of 4,213 (21%); emails: 1,115 (26%); both: 898. Texas stands at 15%, 6 points lower.

By industry code, Port Aransas holds 2,444 filed under NAICS 531110, lessors of residential buildings (58%), 85 under 531311, residential property managers and 403 hotel or motel permits (721110 and 721120) that an export can filter out.

Port Aransas filings span April 1, 1995 to October 23, 2026; the peak, 784 records, came in 2022. 2026 so far: 219, against 496 for all of 2025. Twelve-month filings: 383, or 9% of Port Aransas. The newest Port Aransas record arrived on October 18, 2026; 4 arrived in the last 30 days.

Multi-property holders: 55 names, 2,645 records (63% of Port Aransas), top holder 867 addresses. 4,198 of the 9-ZIP spread sit in 78373.

Port Aransas short-term rental rules

Program page: City of Port Aransas. Its site blocks automated reads, so the rules are linked here rather than restated.

Texas requires state hotel occupancy tax to be collected and sent to the Comptroller for every short-term rental. Hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts are taxed, and so are condominiums, apartments and houses rented for under 30 consecutive days.

Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, read on October 22, 2026.

Port Aransas filings by month

Between October 2025 and September 2026 the Port Aransas registers dated 379 filings, against 464 in the twelve months before: down 18%.

The busiest month in the window was January 2025 with 189, the twelve-month average is 31.6 a month and the slowest was October 2025 with 1.

62% of the year's dated Port Aransas filings, 235 of 379, fell in winter (December to February).

October 2026 so far: 5 dated filings, a partial month.

20 records have entered the Port Aransas file since the first full copy of Texas hotel occupancy tax permits (statewide) (July 6, 2026), 8 in July 2026, 6 in August 2026, 2 in September 2026 and 4 in October 2026.

The most recent Port Aransas addition reached the database on October 18, 2026.

Port Aransas permit status

The Port Aransas registers publish no permit status, so a list cannot be cut to active permits from the register itself. For Port Aransas, the filing date where published and the first-seen date in the export are the freshness signals instead.

What a Port Aransas list contains

All 4,213 Port Aransas rows have property address, ZIP code, permit or licence number and permit type. Partly filled: owner name on 3,750 (89%), business name on 3,569 (85%), separate mailing address on 2,989 (71%), phone on 898 (21%), email on 1,115 (26%), status on 1,135 (27%) and filing date on 4,206 (all but 7). By channel: 898 rows can be called, 1,115 emailed and 4,213 mailed. Where a separate mailing address exists (2,989 rows), send the letter there: it is where the owner reads mail, which is often not the rental.

One ZIP code, 78373, holds 4,198 of the 4,213 Port Aransas records with a ZIP; 1 of the 9 ZIP codes cover four in five.