# Short lets by borough

> Westminster alone carries eleven thousand.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `airbnb-by-borough`
- Source: [Inside Airbnb](https://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data/)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0 — [terms](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/short-lets-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/data/short-lets-by-borough)

## Methodology

Listings per borough from the latest Inside Airbnb snapshot, matched to the 33 London authorities by the platform's own neighbourhood field. Counts advertisements rather than properties: one host operating several listings appears several times, and a listing dormant for a year still appears.

## Visualisations

- [Listing counts](https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough): Compare exact advertisement counts across London boroughs.
- [Host concentration](https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough?view=host-concentration): Compare the share of listings attached to hosts with more than one listing in the same borough. Caveat: A platform host account is not necessarily one legal owner or operator.
- [Review activity](https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough?view=review-activity): Compare reviews in the prior twelve months per listing as an imperfect activity signal. Caveat: Guests do not all leave reviews, and review rates vary; this is not occupancy.
- [Pressure vs hosting](https://londongraph.com/g/short-lets-by-borough?view=pressure-vs-hosting): Compare entire-home listings per 1,000 Census households with multi-listing-host concentration. Caveat: Census 2021 households are a stable denominator, not a current dwelling-stock estimate; association is not causation.

## Citation guidance

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