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San Diego STRO License Inventory — May 2023
A recovered inventory of 7,289 licenses, with historical tier and community planning area counts.
The earliest recovered complete inventory
This archived City inventory contains 7,289 unique licenses. The report preserves the planning-area labels and assignments in that file, including licenses whose area is unknown or unassigned.
The observation date comes from the original CSV’s publisher modification timestamp, May 11, 2023, in UTC, preserved by the archive. This report was prepared retrospectively in October 2026; its publication date is separate from the source date.
This is one recovered observation near the beginning of the licensing requirement. It does not establish the number of operating rentals or a month-end count. No April inventory was recovered for a month-over-month comparison.
Explore the separate City program history for issued-license counts and availability. Some May 2023 program pages reuse the same date with different figures, so neither version is silently attached to this inventory.
The inventory is dated May 11, 2023 and was retrieved on October 24, 2026. This is a point-in-time observation, not a month-end total.
Baseline snapshot. No comparable immediately preceding monthly observation is loaded, so no month-over-month change is reported.
Published inventory · May 11, 2023
Licenses by tier
Each license is counted once. Shares describe the mix in this observation.
| Tier | Licenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 · Part-timeRentals for up to 20 days per year; the host need not live onsite. | 152 | 2.09% |
| Tier 2 · Home sharingHome sharing for more than 20 days per year with the host living onsite; limited host absences are permitted. | 2,152 | 29.52% |
| Tier 3 · Whole home outside Mission BeachWhole-home rentals outside Mission Beach, with at least 90 days of annual use required to maintain the license. | 3,908 | 53.62% |
| Tier 4 · Mission Beach whole homeWhole-home rentals in Mission Beach, with at least 90 days of annual use required to maintain the license. | 1,077 | 14.78% |
| Total published inventory | 7,289 | 100% |
Shares are rounded independently and are not applicable to an empty inventory. Descriptions are retained with this dated observation. A declared tier with no records has a known count of zero.
Separate publisher observation
Published availability by tier
Availability is unavailable for this report: no separate capacity observation was selected.
Zero means no remaining licenses in that dated availability observation. Unlimited and unavailable are distinct states. These figures do not establish availability within a community planning area.
Area detail · May 11, 2023
Licenses by community planning area
Community planning areas are the City’s reporting geography; they are not interchangeable with neighborhoods. These figures describe inventory, not area-level caps or permit availability. Counts are sorted from largest to smallest; horizontal scrolling reveals every tier on smaller screens.
| Community planning area | Total | Tier 1 · Part-time | Tier 2 · Home sharing | Tier 3 · Whole home outside Mission Beach | Tier 4 · Mission Beach whole home |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Beach | 1,272 | 21 | 174 | 0 | 1,077 |
| Pacific Beach | 1,068 | 15 | 218 | 835 | 0 |
| La Jolla | 675 | 9 | 162 | 504 | 0 |
| Ocean Beach | 583 | 3 | 97 | 483 | 0 |
| Uptown | 508 | 4 | 185 | 319 | 0 |
| North Park | 428 | 5 | 179 | 244 | 0 |
| Clairemont Mesa | 364 | 12 | 165 | 187 | 0 |
| Peninsula | 338 | 10 | 152 | 176 | 0 |
| Downtown | 258 | 13 | 48 | 197 | 0 |
| Southeastern San Diego | 216 | 1 | 67 | 148 | 0 |
| Greater Golden Hill | 213 | 5 | 86 | 122 | 0 |
| Mid-City: City Heights | 137 | 1 | 60 | 76 | 0 |
| Mid-City: Normal Heights | 120 | 3 | 59 | 58 | 0 |
| Linda Vista | 105 | 4 | 29 | 72 | 0 |
| Navajo | 105 | 6 | 37 | 62 | 0 |
| Mira Mesa | 88 | 3 | 44 | 41 | 0 |
| University | 82 | 7 | 40 | 35 | 0 |
| Encanto Neighborhoods | 74 | 1 | 41 | 32 | 0 |
| Mid-City: Eastern Area | 70 | 2 | 33 | 35 | 0 |
| Serra Mesa | 67 | 2 | 33 | 32 | 0 |
| Skyline-Paradise Hills | 61 | 1 | 29 | 31 | 0 |
| Mid-City: Kensington-Talmadge | 57 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 0 |
| Torrey Pines | 54 | 4 | 19 | 31 | 0 |
| College Area | 50 | 0 | 19 | 31 | 0 |
| Carmel Valley | 36 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 0 |
| Rancho Penasquitos | 36 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 0 |
| Otay Mesa-Nestor | 29 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| Unknown / unassigned | 26 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 0 |
| Old Town San Diego | 25 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
| Barrio Logan | 23 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 |
| Mission Valley | 20 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 0 |
| Rancho Bernardo | 16 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 |
| Otay Mesa | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| San Ysidro | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Tierrasanta | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Torrey Highlands | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Miramar Ranch North | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Sabre Springs | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Pacific Highlands Ranch | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Torrey Hills | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Rancho Encantada | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Black Mountain Ranch | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Mission Bay Park | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Del Mar Mesa | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kearny Mesa | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| San Pasqual | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Scripps Miramar Ranch | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| NCFUA Subarea II | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tijuana River Valley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Via de la Valle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total, including unknown / unassigned | 7,289 | 152 | 2,152 | 3,908 | 1,077 |
Unknown / unassigned preserves licenses without a usable area. Area labels follow the publisher’s inventory; they are not an independently verified geographic directory. Zero in a tier column means no records in that cell of the complete inventory; it does not describe availability.
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Published inventory, with clear limits
Population counted: All licenses listed in the City’s active STRO inventory, including records with earlier expiration dates.
Counts measure the stated inventory, not bookings, occupancy, revenue, or actual rental activity. Missing geographic assignments remain included in totals.
0 expired-looking records are retained in this observation. These records have an expiration date earlier than the observation date. That date alone does not resolve renewal or administrative status.
Availability is an independent publisher observation. These counts establish neither an area cap nor availability for an individual property.