Seattle Short-Term Rental Operator Licenses And Units

Seattle's dataset lists all licensed short-term rental operators and their associated rental units. It is published by the City of Seattle's Department of Finance and Administrative Services and was last updated in April 2026. The data includes license statuses, property addresses, and unit-specific details.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial distribution of short-term rentals using Latitude and Longitude columns across Seattle's GeographicRegion.
• Predict LicenseStatus (e.g., active, expired) based on features like LicenseExpirationDate, PropertyType, and BedroomCount.
• Assess compliance by identifying units where PrimaryResidence status conflicts with other rental activity indicators.
• Join with other city datasets using SeattleBusinessLicenseNumber to study correlations between business licenses and rental operations.

Strengths

• Contains multiple key data categories including license details (LicenseStatus, LicenseExpirationDate), property details (PropertyType, BedroomCount), and geospatial coordinates (Latitude, Longitude).
• Data is provided by the authoritative municipal source (cos-data.seattle.gov) and includes a direct link to official regulations.

Limitations

• Critical metrics like total row count and dataset size are unknown, hindering assessment of scale and representativeness.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing verification of data quality, value distributions, and null rates.

Provenance

Source

City of Seattle Department of Finance and Administrative Services (cos-data.seattle.gov).

Collection Method

Collected via municipal licensing and registration process.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

Seattle, Washington, USA.