Airbnb, the world’s leading community driven hospitality company, announced today that its Kentucky host community earned a combined $10.2 million in supplemental income while welcoming approximately 80,000 people to the state in 2016.
The 80,000 guest arrivals to the Bluegrass State via Airbnb represents 139 percent year-over-year growth. This comes as Kentucky residents increasingly embrace the home sharing platform as an opportunity to earn supplemental income and make ends meet. Airbnb’s Kentucky host community nearly doubled in size to 2,100 people in 2016. Twenty-five percent of Kentucky’s Airbnb hosts simply rent out an extra room in their homes. And the fastest growing demographic nationally among Airbnb hosts are senior women.
What follows is an overview of 2016 guest arrivals and total host income, broken down by the top 10 home sharing cities in Kentucky:
|
City |
Total 2016 Guest Arrivals |
Total 2016 Host Income |
|
Louisville |
43,000 |
$6.2 Million |
|
Lexington |
15,000 |
$1.8 Million |
|
Bowling Green |
1,800 |
$174,000 |
|
Bardstown |
1,700 |
$152,000 |
|
Covington |
1,600 |
$168,000 |
|
Stanton |
1,400 |
$155,000 |
|
Nicholasville |
950 |
$95,000 |
|
Berea |
850 |
$59,000 |
|
Paducah |
850 |
$98,000 |
|
Somerset |
540 |
$42,000 |
About Airbnb
Founded in 2008, Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can belong when they travel by being connected to local cultures and have unique travel experiences. Its community marketplace provides access to millions of unique accommodations from apartments and villas to castles and treehouses in more than 34,000 cities and 191 countries.
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