Ocklawaha, Florida Short-Term Rental Market
The Lake Weir area (including Ocklawaha) STR market averaged $159/night at 49.5% occupancy in June 2026.
Quick Answer: Ocklawaha, Florida is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the Ocala market area is 49%. average monthly revenue in the Ocala market area is $2,262. average daily rate in the Ocala market area is $159.
Market data reflects the Ocala regional market, which includes Ocklawaha. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to Ocklawaha.
Market Overview
Ocklawaha is a small unincorporated lakeside community of about 1,508 people in Marion County, Florida, on the north shore of Lake Weir, the state’s fifth-largest lake. It is not a major tourist destination in its own right; visitation is regional and outdoor or heritage oriented rather than resort-driven, drawing Florida day-trippers, anglers, boaters, and history buffs to the notorious 1935 Ma Barker shootout site. The area sits within the greater Ocala and Marion County tourism market, which draws visitors for horse country, Silver Springs, and Ocala National Forest, though Ocklawaha itself functions as a quiet lake-recreation and residential community rather than a high-traffic vacation hub. Ocklawaha’s STR performance data in StaySTRA’s dataset is tracked at a shared Lake Weir regional level, combined with nearby Weirsdale on the lake’s opposite shore, rather than reported uniquely for Ocklawaha, so all performance figures below describe that shared regional STR market rather than Ocklawaha in isolation. In the most recent tracked month (June 2026), the Lake Weir area STR market shows an average daily rate of $159 and occupancy of 49.5%, producing RevPAR of $79 and average revenue of $2,262 per listing for the month. Year over year, occupancy is down 8.4 percentage points and revenue is down 2.8%, even as ADR is up 3.2%. Listing-type, bedroom-count, property-manager, and housing-value data are not published for this area at a city-specific level in the current dataset, so this profile omits those figures rather than estimate them.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 63% |
| Feb | 76% |
| Mar | 70% |
| Apr | 50% |
| May | 49% |
| Jun | 56% |
| Jul | 58% |
| Aug | 48% |
| Sep | 47% |
| Oct | 49% |
| Nov | 53% |
| Dec | 53% |
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Short-Term Rental Regulations
Short-term rentals are legal in Ocklawaha. Because it is an unincorporated census-designated place, Marion County’s Land Development Code applies rather than a city ordinance, and no Marion County ordinance dedicated specifically to short-term rentals was located. Florida law (Chapter 509) strongly preempts local STR regulation: counties cannot outright ban vacation rentals or cap stay duration or frequency unless they had a grandfathered ordinance before June 1, 2011, and Marion County has none. A home rented for stays of 30 days or less more than three times a year is a ‘vacation rental’ under state law and requires a Florida DBPR Vacation Rental Dwelling license, about $170 a year at renewal (roughly $220 the first year with the application fee). Operators must also register with the Marion County Tax Collector and remit the county’s 4% Tourist Development Tax on stays of six months or less, on top of the 6% state sales tax and any local discretionary surtax. No owner-occupancy requirement or annual-night cap applies. Marion County does not appear to run a dedicated STR registration or inspection program beyond tax collection, and enforcement is rated minimal, mostly tax- and state-license-driven. Investors should confirm the specific zoning class of a target parcel with Marion County Growth Services, since uses not expressly permitted can trigger a Special Use Permit requirement.
Market Comparison
At 49.5% occupancy, the Lake Weir area STR market, which includes Ocklawaha, is running below the commonly cited U.S. STR median occupancy of roughly 55%. Its $159 ADR is also below the national median of roughly $220, reflecting a small, low-tourism inland lake community rather than a destination market with pricing power. This is one of the smaller and softer markets in this dataset by both occupancy and rate, consistent with a quiet residential and retirement community whose STR demand leans on regional day-trippers and winter snowbirds rather than a marquee attraction. Top property manager rosters and housing-value data are not published for this market at a city-specific level in the current dataset, so this profile omits those figures rather than estimate them.
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