High Springs, Florida Short-Term Rental Market
The North-Central Florida STR market, including High Springs, averaged $145/night at 50.8% occupancy in June 2026.
Quick Answer: High Springs, Florida is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the Gainesville market area is 51%. average monthly revenue in the Gainesville market area is $2,224. average daily rate in the Gainesville market area is $145.
Market data reflects the Gainesville regional market, which includes High Springs. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to High Springs.
Market Overview
High Springs is a small North-Central Florida town branded the ‘Gateway to the Springs,’ about 30 miles northwest of Gainesville. StaySTRA’s underlying STR performance data for this area is tracked at a shared North-Central Florida level, High Springs shares a series with Hawthorne and Micanopy, rather than uniquely for High Springs, so the figures below describe that shared area STR market rather than High Springs in isolation. All three towns in this series are small, rural, outdoor-recreation and heritage-tourism destinations near Gainesville rather than beachfront or major-metro markets.
In June 2026, the most recent month with data, this North-Central Florida STR market averaged 50.8% occupancy (down 9.1% year over year) and a $145.02 average daily rate (down 4.5% year over year). Average monthly revenue per listing was $2,224, down 5.7% year over year.
RevPAR (revenue per available listing-night) was $73.63 for the month.
High Springs itself draws primarily outdoor-recreation and eco-tourists: swimmers, snorkelers, tubers, kayakers, campers, and scuba/cave divers headed to the world-class freshwater springs on the Santa Fe River, anchored by Ginnie Springs, Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park, and Poe Springs. At the county level, Alachua County hosted roughly 1.4 million visitors staying in paid accommodations in 2024. The town’s population is roughly 6,648.
Bedroom mix, channel split, listing-type counts, and property-manager data are not published for High Springs or the shared North-Central Florida series, so this profile omits those breakdowns rather than guessing.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 56% |
| Feb | 64% |
| Mar | 62% |
| Apr | 56% |
| May | 51% |
| Jun | 60% |
| Jul | 64% |
| Aug | 67% |
| Sep | 53% |
| Oct | 53% |
| Nov | 52% |
| Dec | 51% |
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Short-Term Rental Regulations
High Springs sits in a tourism-driven springs region, and short-term rentals are permitted; no city ordinance banning or specifically restricting STRs was found. Florida preempts local STR bans and any regulation of rental duration or frequency (Florida Statute 509.032) unless a city had rules on the books before June 1, 2011, no such grandfathered High Springs ordinance was identified.
At the state level, any whole-unit rental of a dwelling to guests for stays under 30 days, more than three times a year, or advertised as regularly available, requires a Florida DBPR Vacation Rental Dwelling license, roughly $230 a year for a single unit, renewed annually. On top of the state license, operators should obtain a City of High Springs local business tax receipt and register for tourist development tax.
Lodging taxes stack: Alachua County levies a 5% Tourist Development tax plus the 6% Florida state sales tax and a 1% local option surtax, for a combined roughly 12% on transient rents. As of January 1, 2025, Airbnb and VRBO collect and remit the 5% county tax directly, so hosts booking only through those platforms no longer file monthly county returns. Renting only rooms within an owner-occupied primary residence can fall outside the state STR definition entirely.
Enforcement is light-touch overall, driven mainly by state licensing, tax compliance, and general code (noise, parking, trash, safety) rather than a dedicated STR ordinance.
Market Comparison
The North-Central Florida area STR market’s 50.8% occupancy in the latest month runs slightly below the roughly 55% occupancy typically cited as a national STR median, and its $145.02 ADR is also well below the roughly $220 national median ADR figure often cited for the US market. That combination, below-national on both occupancy and rate, is consistent with a series of small, rural, day-trip-oriented towns rather than a high-demand tourism destination, even though High Springs itself draws a genuine niche of springs-diving and eco-tourism visitors.
Property manager and top-operator data is not currently available for this market, so this profile does not name specific operators or listing counts here.
For broader context, Alachua County (anchored by Gainesville and the University of Florida) hosted roughly 1.4 million visitors staying in paid accommodations in 2024, with the natural springs, including High Springs’ own Ginnie Springs and Gilchrist Blue Springs, cited among the county’s main tourism draws.
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