Campo, California Short-Term Rental Market
Campo, CA STRs need only a tax registration (no permit); it's rural, near the Mexican border. June 2026 area ADR was $382.
Quick Answer: Campo, California is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the San Diego market area is 76%. average monthly revenue in the San Diego market area is $7,596. average daily rate in the San Diego market area is $382.
Market data reflects the San Diego regional market, which includes Campo. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to Campo.
Market Overview
Campo is a small rural community in the Mountain Empire region of southeastern San Diego County, near the U.S.-Mexico border, population 2,955, drawing primarily day-trip and heritage-rail-tourism visitors to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum rather than an overnight-lodging market of its own.
A necessary caveat before the numbers below: StaySTRA tracks Campo’s ADR, occupancy, and revenue at a shared regional level with Jamul, Lakeside, and Lemon Grove, and San Diego County spans dramatically different submarkets, from rural or mountain communities like Campo and Jamul to suburban towns like Lakeside and Lemon Grove that sit much closer to the city of San Diego itself. These four towns are not a coherent single market in the way a tight lake-region cluster would be; the figures below describe a broad San Diego County area STR market, not Campo’s own small, rural rental scene specifically, and Campo’s tiny population and remote location mean its actual local market is almost certainly quieter and less liquid than these regional numbers suggest. In June 2026, the San Diego County area STR market posted a blended ADR of $382.23 and 75.7% occupancy, with average monthly revenue of $7,596/listing. Revenue is up 7.89% year over year, occupancy is up 4.15 percentage points, and ADR is up 2.69%.
Bedroom mix, listing-type breakdown, and the top-property-manager list are not currently published for this market, so this profile omits those breakdowns.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 56% |
| Feb | 65% |
| Mar | 69% |
| Apr | 62% |
| May | 64% |
| Jun | 74% |
| Jul | 77% |
| Aug | 68% |
| Sep | 61% |
| Oct | 61% |
| Nov | 58% |
| Dec | 57% |
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Short-Term Rental Regulations
Campo is an unincorporated census-designated place governed by San Diego County, not by any city STR ordinance. Unlike the City of San Diego’s tightly capped, license-and-lottery Short-Term Residential Occupancy (STRO) program, unincorporated San Diego County does not require an STR operating permit or license, imposes no citywide cap on the number of rentals, and has no published max-nights, owner-occupancy, or primary-residence requirements.
The one hard requirement is tax: operators must register with the County Treasurer-Tax Collector for a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Certificate and collect and remit 8% TOT on rents, filed quarterly. County TOT registration for unincorporated STRs formally opened June 11, 2024, with reporting beginning July 1, 2024; the TOT certificate is a tax document, not a permit to operate.
Operators must still comply with general county zoning and land-use rules and any state or county building, safety, and neighborhood requirements. Enforcement in unincorporated areas is generally lighter than in incorporated cities. Net effect: Campo is one of the more permissive STR environments in the San Diego region, low 8% tax, no operating license, no supply cap, with tax compliance the main obligation. Enforcement is rated minimal. Investors should still verify property-specific zoning and any HOA, septic, or water-supply constraints common in this rural area.
Market Comparison
The San Diego County area STR market’s June 2026 occupancy of 75.7% runs well above the commonly cited US STR median of roughly 55%, and its $382.23 blended ADR is well above the roughly $220 US median, but these figures should be read as a broad county-level reference point, not a Campo-specific benchmark, given how much this shared cluster’s numbers likely reflect its more suburban members.
Top-property-manager data is not currently published for Campo in this snapshot, so this profile omits a named-operator comparison.
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