Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania Short-Term Rental Market
The Pocono Mountains area (including Tobyhanna) STR market averaged $428/night at 46.5% occupancy.
Quick Answer: Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the Pocono Mtns market area is 47%. average monthly revenue in the Pocono Mtns market area is $5,233. average daily rate in the Pocono Mtns market area is $428. the top operator in the Pocono Mtns market area is Evolve with 517 listings. market score is 86/100 (grade A).
Market data reflects the Pocono Mtns regional market, which includes Tobyhanna. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to Tobyhanna.
Market Score Breakdown
Five dimensions StaySTRA evaluates per market.
Market Overview
Tobyhanna is an unincorporated community of about 6,152 people in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, in the heart of the Pocono Mountains, one of the Northeast’s largest drive-to vacation regions. The four-county Pocono Mountains region draws roughly 30 million visitors a year and generated a record $7.2 billion in visitor spending in 2024, with Monroe County the top-spending county; that figure describes the broader region, not Tobyhanna itself, since no town-specific visitor count is published. Visitors are heavily leisure travelers from the New York City and Philadelphia metro areas, typically a 90 to 150 minute drive, drawn year-round: skiing and snow-tubing in winter, lakes, water parks, hiking, and state parks in summer. Major nearby anchors include Kalahari Resorts, the country’s largest indoor water park, Great Wolf Lodge, Camelback Mountain Resort and Camelbeach, the Big Boulder and Jack Frost ski areas, and Tobyhanna State Park itself, a 5,440-acre park built around a 170-acre lake. Tobyhanna’s STR performance data in StaySTRA’s dataset is tracked at a shared Pocono Mountains regional level, combined with eight other Pocono communities spanning several townships, rather than reported uniquely for Tobyhanna, so all performance figures below describe that broader regional STR market rather than Tobyhanna in isolation. In the most recent tracked month (June 2026), the Pocono Mountains area STR market shows an average daily rate of $428 and occupancy of 46.5%, with average revenue of $5,233 per listing for the month. Year over year, occupancy is up 0.4 percentage point, ADR is up 1.2%, and revenue is up 9.3%. Bedroom mix, channel split, listing-type counts, and top property manager rosters are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Tobyhanna, so this profile omits those figures rather than present a regional total as the community’s own. Housing data for Tobyhanna shows a median list price of $295,133 as of June 2026, with 241 homes for sale; a typical-home-value figure is not published for this area.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 35% |
| Feb | 41% |
| Mar | 28% |
| Apr | 37% |
| May | 38% |
| Jun | 48% |
| Jul | 61% |
| Aug | 63% |
| Sep | 33% |
| Oct | 38% |
| Nov | 37% |
| Dec | 42% |
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Top Short-Term Rental Operators in Pocono Mtns market area
Ranked by total active listings. Useful for understanding the competitive landscape. Operator data is published for the Pocono Mtns market as a whole, which includes Tobyhanna, so these counts are not Tobyhanna-only figures.
| # | Operator | Listings | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evolve | 517 | 21,732 | ★ 4.56 |
| 2 | Pocono Rental Management | 123 | 5,709 | ★ 4.64 |
| 3 | LiveFree Hospitality | 96 | 7,033 | ★ 4.78 |
| 4 | Vacasa | 83 | 2,356 | ★ 4.38 |
| 5 | Techvestor | 75 | 6,122 | ★ 4.69 |
What Kind of STR Should I Buy in Tobyhanna?
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Booking Channel Mix
Distribution of bookings across major STR platforms.
| Channel | Share |
|---|---|
| airbnb | 30.5% |
| vrbo | 7.2% |
| both | 62.3% |
Booking Insights
Booking-window and length-of-stay analysis for Tobyhanna — how far ahead guests book and how to price around it — is available to StaySTRA Pro members. Unlock with StaySTRA Pro or analyze a specific address free.
Short-Term Rental Regulations
Short-term rentals are legal in Tobyhanna. Tobyhanna itself sits in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, which requires a Coolbaugh Township Short-Term Rental License before renting, costing $200 a year, renewed annually. STRs are permitted only in certain zoning districts, commonly cited as R-1, R-2, R-3, W-C, and C-3, and licenses are not transferable between owners. Maximum occupancy is generally two guests per bedroom plus four additional guests, and at least one on-site parking space per bedroom is required. Guests owe Monroe County’s 3% hotel excise tax, established under Ordinance #2017-1, on top of Pennsylvania state and local sales tax. There is no owner-occupancy or primary-residence requirement, and enforcement is rated moderate. This is a fragmented regulatory landscape: the Pocono Mountains cluster this data represents spans multiple independent townships, each with its own STR ordinance, fee schedule, and zoning rules, so investors must confirm the specific township governing any target parcel before assuming Tobyhanna’s rules apply elsewhere in the region. A significant additional layer applies across much of the Poconos: many communities here, including lake and resort developments, are governed by private homeowners associations whose covenants can impose stricter STR rules, or ban them outright, regardless of what the township allows, so investors should review HOA documents in addition to municipal code.
Market Comparison
At 46.5% occupancy, the Pocono Mountains area STR market, which includes Tobyhanna, is running below the commonly cited U.S. STR median occupancy of roughly 55%. Its $428 ADR, though, is well above the national median of roughly $220, nearly double, reflecting a large, resort-anchored drive-market with strong pricing power despite lower average fill rates, likely tied to a sizable second-home and large-house inventory across the region rather than dense, high-turnover apartment supply. That occupancy-below-average, ADR-well-above-average profile is typical of large vacation-home markets serving nearby metros, where big houses command premium nightly rates but sit unbooked more often than compact, urban-style listings. Top property manager rosters are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Tobyhanna, so this profile omits operator rankings rather than present regional totals as the community’s own, and the fragmented, multi-township regulatory picture described above is itself a meaningful point of differentiation from single-jurisdiction markets elsewhere in this dataset.
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