Port Aransas, Texas hotel market

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

$37.5M
Room revenue, trailing 12 months
+7.8%
vs prior 12 months
$66
Market RevPAR, TTM*
69
Hotels filing room tax
1,549
Registry rooms
-51
Rooms added YoY
82%
Short-term-rental share
Demand momentumModerateSupply pressureContractingDemand durabilityStableSTR spilloverHighData confidenceMedium

Quarterly hotel room revenue

state filings
$10.0M$20.0M2017 Q1: $7,552,86620172017 Q2: $14,226,5112017 Q3: $14,024,9132017 Q4: $1,480,8982018 Q1: $3,805,84720182018 Q2: $8,101,0822018 Q3: $11,767,0502018 Q4: $3,536,1662019 Q1: $4,925,16320192019 Q2: $11,639,5692019 Q3: $14,456,9792019 Q4: $3,962,1522020 Q1: $4,622,15120202020 Q2: $10,274,9632020 Q3: $13,393,3232020 Q4: $4,943,6102021 Q1: $5,867,12920212021 Q2: $15,032,7742021 Q3: $18,293,4902021 Q4: $5,833,1452022 Q1: $5,726,98320222022 Q2: $14,856,6002022 Q3: $18,941,7472022 Q4: $7,380,0032023 Q1: $8,537,35520232023 Q2: $16,369,0062023 Q3: $17,110,1592023 Q4: $4,285,8712024 Q1: $5,689,80420242024 Q2: $12,657,2112024 Q3: $12,598,9162024 Q4: $4,221,8132025 Q1: $5,246,59020252025 Q2: $13,132,2632025 Q3: $14,635,6492025 Q4: $4,704,1852026 Q1: $5,767,3652026$5.8M

Room receipts reported by Port Aransas 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
50%100%2017: 56.1% STR share'172018: 58.1% STR share2019: 61.5% STR share'192020: 72.8% STR share2021: 74.1% STR share'212022: 78.6% STR share2023: 77.7% STR share'232024: 78.4% STR share2025: 79.9% STR share'252026: 84.5% STR share (5 months)84.5%

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 Port Aransas

82 filing locations
82 hotelsCombined TTM $37.5MMedian $/key $16kMedian YoY +8.4%
HotelBrand familyRoomsFY2025 revenueTTM revenue$/keyYoY
Port Royal By The Sea Resort HotelIndependent210$5.4M$5.5M$26k+4.3%Screen
Hampton Inn & SuitesHilton78$2.7M$2.8M$35k+16.9%Screen
Holiday Inn ExpressIHG74$2.5M$2.5M$34k+15.7%Screen
BeachgateIndependent11$2.1M$2.0M$183k-7.2%Screen
Best Western Ocean VillaBWH59$2.0M$1.9M$33k-2.2%Screen
Seaside Boutique HotelIndependent25$1.5M$1.5M$60k+2.4%Screen
Red Roof Inn Port AransasRed Roof54$1.5M$1.5M$27k+5.1%Screen
Dunes Council Of Co-OwnersIndependent25$1.4M$1.5M$59k+17.6%Screen
Port Aransas EscapesIndependent26$1.8M$1.5M$57k-3.2%Screen
Beacon 57Independent32$1.3M$1.4M$44k+53.2%Screen

Every hotel and motel filing state room tax in Port Aransas, 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 1,549Added YoY -51New filing locations 3
Began filingCosta Bahia #101-109 & #201-209 · 18 keys · first filings within the trailing year
Began filingPort A Beach Lodge · 16 keys · first filings within the trailing year
Began filingThe Shell Corp Sleeps 10 · 10 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)$11.9M$64.6M84.5%
2025$37.7M$149.5M79.9%
2024$35.2M$127.8M78.4%
2023$46.3M$161.1M77.7%
2022$46.9M$172.0M78.6%
2021$45.0M$128.7M74.1%
2020$33.2M$89.0M72.8%
2019$35.0M$56.0M61.5%
2018$27.2M$37.8M58.1%
2017$37.3M$47.6M56.1%

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.

Nueces County context

Census ACS + CBP
Population (2023)352,829 · +2.5% since 2013
Median household income$66,021 · was $47,057 in 2013
Median age36.8
Health care and social assistance29,465 employed · 1,105 establishments
Accommodation and food services19,985 employed · 982 establishments
Construction14,761 employed · 619 establishments
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services9,319 employed · 366 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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