Athens, Texas hotel market

Henderson County · Measured room revenue from state hotel occupancy tax filings, through May 2026.

$6.8M
Room revenue, trailing 12 months
+3.0%
vs prior 12 months
$47
Market RevPAR, TTM*
11
Hotels filing room tax
397
Registry rooms
0
Rooms added YoY
9%
Short-term-rental share
Demand momentumFlatSupply pressureStableDemand durabilityStableSTR spilloverLowData confidenceMedium-high

Quarterly hotel room revenue

state filings
$1.0M$2.0M2017 Q1: $930,79420172017 Q2: $1,342,6812017 Q3: $1,199,2212017 Q4: $1,012,9312018 Q1: $844,05020182018 Q2: $1,215,1752018 Q3: $1,165,2452018 Q4: $1,115,3702019 Q1: $1,039,26020192019 Q2: $1,295,8452019 Q3: $1,143,9032019 Q4: $1,385,3902020 Q1: $899,02120202020 Q2: $931,3522020 Q3: $1,098,8342020 Q4: $1,064,4222021 Q1: $1,446,89920212021 Q2: $1,602,7842021 Q3: $1,611,1352021 Q4: $1,362,9532022 Q1: $1,273,95320222022 Q2: $1,656,9472022 Q3: $1,700,6062022 Q4: $1,383,5432023 Q1: $1,360,12220232023 Q2: $1,681,3252023 Q3: $1,543,5472023 Q4: $1,506,1232024 Q1: $1,233,94220242024 Q2: $1,685,0422024 Q3: $1,613,4132024 Q4: $1,666,1402025 Q1: $1,642,79020252025 Q2: $1,784,3832025 Q3: $1,787,2302025 Q4: $1,576,8012026 Q1: $1,528,8622026$1.5M

Room receipts reported by Athens hotels to the Texas Comptroller, summed by calendar quarter so monthly and quarterly filers land in the same buckets. Short-term rentals are excluded and measured separately. *Market RevPAR divides trailing revenue by registry rooms x 365; registry capacity can lag renovations.

Short-term-rental share

measured
5%10%2017: 3.3% STR share'172018: 6.2% STR share2019: 5.7% STR share'192020: 8.3% STR share2021: 5.4% STR share'212022: 7.7% STR share2023: 8.3% STR share'232024: 10.4% STR share2025: 10.3% STR share'252026: 8.1% STR share (5 months)8.1%

STR share of all measured lodging revenue: platform remittances (Airbnb, Vrbo, Vacasa) plus individually permitted hosts and rental managers. Open dots are partial years.

Hotels in Athens

13 filing locations
13 hotelsCombined TTM $6.8MMedian $/key $9kMedian YoY -13.7%
HotelBrand familyRoomsFY2025 revenueTTM revenue$/keyYoY
Best Western Plus Royal Mountain InnnewBWH61$671k (5mo)$1.3M (10mo)Screen
Holiday Inn ExpressnewIHG66$180k (1mo)$1.2M (6mo)Screen
Holiday Inn ExpressIHG66$2.2M$1.2M$18k-50.3%Screen
Stay Express Inn · quarterly filerIndependent75$775k$859k$11kScreen
Super 8 By WyndamWyndham66$828k$755k$11k-13.7%Screen
Best Western Royal Mountain Inn & SuitesBWH61$1.1M (9mo)$426k (4mo)Screen
Selah Place · quarterly filerIndependent10$273k$274k$27k-0.9%Screen
Victorian InnIndependent39$273k$255k$7k-20.6%Screen
Travel InnIndependent23$172k$162k$7k-10.6%Screen
Budget InnIndependent25$150k$153k$6k-15.6%Screen

Every hotel and motel filing state room tax in Athens, ranked by trailing-12-month reported receipts. Brand and tier are read from the filing name; $/key divides TTM revenue by registry rooms. Quarterly filers report at quarter granularity, so their trailing windows can lag by up to two months.

Supply pipeline

measured + verified reports
Registry rooms 397Added YoY 0New filing locations 2
Began filingBest Western Plus Royal Mountain Inn · 61 keys · first filings within the trailing year
Began filingHoliday Inn Express · 66 keys · first filings within the trailing year

Measured entries come from state tax registrations (a hotel appears when it starts filing room tax). Named pipeline entries are individually verified against reporting or the TDLR construction registry; room counts are never estimated.

Hotels vs short-term rentals

measured · state filings
YearHotel revenueSTR revenueSTR share
2026 (5mo)$2.7M$232k8.1%
2025$6.8M$778k10.3%
2024$6.2M$719k10.4%
2023$6.1M$554k8.3%
2022$6.0M$504k7.7%
2021$6.0M$346k5.4%
2020$4.0M$363k8.3%
2019$4.9M$295k5.7%
2018$4.3M$286k6.2%
2017$4.5M$155k3.3%

Short-term-rental revenue combines platform remittances (Airbnb, Vrbo and similar file one aggregate per city) and individually permitted hosts and rental managers. Revenue is measured; listing counts are not derivable from tax filings.

Henderson County context

Census ACS + CBP
Population (2023)83,658 · +6.4% since 2013
Median household income$63,955 · was $40,900 in 2013
Median age43.8
Accommodation and food services2,409 employed · 166 establishments
Health care and social assistance2,182 employed · 126 establishments
Construction1,435 employed · 181 establishments
Other services (except public administration)1,002 employed · 167 establishments

American Community Survey 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns, county level. Employment counts are private-sector payroll establishments.

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Methodology. Measured from TX Comptroller hotel occupancy tax filings. Corporate housing operators, condo/HOA rental regimes, RV parks, and vacation-rental managers are classified out of the hotel universe by name; hand corrections via override_class win over the computed class. Self-reported and unaudited; amended filings restate history. Registry room capacity can lag renovations. Growth figures need full 12-month coverage in both years; partial-coverage locations show revenue but no growth rate. Quarterly filers are included at quarter granularity: their trailing windows can lag monthly filers by up to two months. Market growth rates substitute a typical month for detector-flagged single-month filing anomalies (amended filings lumped into one month); raw revenue totals stay as filed. Registry room counts that are impossible for the building (a re-registered permit filing 18,872 units against 188) fall back to the last plausible count filed at the same address, or are withheld from room totals when no such filing exists. Room and hotel counts are per building: when a hotel changes filing entities, its co-located registrations count once, at the most recently seen plausible room count, while revenue sums across every filer. Platform rows are city-level aggregates remitted by booking platforms (Airbnb, Vrbo/HomeAway, and similar) under marketplace agreements; they carry real revenue but placeholder unit counts, so listing counts are NOT derivable from this data. Individual-filer figures capture hosts with their own tax permits plus vacation-rental managers and condo rental programs classified by name (one manager can file many locations under one permit); corporate housing operators and RV parks are excluded from both sides. A host who files individually may also have some bookings remitted by a platform, so minor double counting is possible. The small-property heuristic (<=4 units) can misclassify tiny B&Bs or motels. All figures are self-reported, unaudited, and restated by amended filings. Figures are our interpretation of public state records and are not a valuation or investment advice.

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