Spring, Texas

Spring is an unincorporated suburb of 62,559 residents in the Greater Houston metro, straddling Harris and southern Montgomery Counties, with no municipal government of its own. Its main draw is Old Town Spring, a historic railroad-era district with 100 to 150-plus specialty shops, antique stores, galleries, and restaurants that hosts seasonal festivals including SpringFest and the Texas Crawfish & Music Festival. Other draws include Six Flags Hurricane Harbor SplashTown, Mercer Botanic Gardens, and the Spring Creek Greenway trail system, with visitors largely Houston-area day-trippers, festival-goers, and shoppers.

Unincorporated Harris County, where most of Spring sits, requires no STR permit, license, or registration and has no zoning restriction on short-term rentals, making it one of the more permissive STR environments in the Houston metro. The main compliance burden is tax and private deed restrictions rather than public permitting; many HOAs and subdivision covenants ban rentals under 30 days even though the county allows them.

Importantly, if a specific Spring-area property sits inside the City of Houston’s limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction (parts of Spring’s ETJ overlap), Houston’s separate STR registration ordinance applies instead, a Certificate of Registration costing roughly $275 plus fees, with platforms removing unregistered listings starting April 1, 2026, a deadline already in effect as of this profile. Investors should verify whether a specific parcel sits in unincorporated Harris County or inside Houston’s jurisdiction before assuming the more permissive county rules apply.

StaySTRA’s Airbnb/Vrbo performance data for this area is tracked at a shared regional level across 11 Houston-area cities and towns rather than uniquely for Spring; treat the following as the Houston metro area STR market. In June 2026, that market averaged 61.4% occupancy and a $198 ADR, producing $3,129 in average monthly revenue per listing, up 14.8% year over year.