Vancouver Airbnb, 4,001 listings
An individual Tableau assignment on a 2025 extract of Vancouver Airbnb listings. I built a map, neighbourhood breakdowns, host concentration views and a listings trend to answer one question: is this a home-sharing market or a rental business?
Where the listings are
Downtown alone has 980 listings, a quarter of the city, and it is also the most expensive neighbourhood. Downtown Eastside and Kitsilano come next. In the busiest areas more than 80% of listings are whole units; the residential west side (Kerrisdale, Oakridge, Shaughnessy) is where private rooms still make up close to half.
Who runs them
2,831 hosts, but 434 of them have more than one listing, and those 434 account for 40% of everything on the platform. A quarter of listings also require stays of 90 nights or more, which makes them furnished mid-term rentals rather than short stays. Together that reads more like a small rental industry than people renting out a spare room.
How fast it grew
Using each listing's first review as a rough start date, new listings dipped in 2020 and then took off: 243 in 2021, 726 in 2023, 911 in 2024. In the Tableau workbook I added a forecast on this series; here it is shown as the raw counts.
Does price buy reviews?
Barely. On a log-log plot, price and review count are almost unrelated for entire homes (r ≈ 0.08). Room type and location explain price far better than popularity does.
Tools
Tableau: joined the listings and reviews extracts, calculated fields (share of entire homes, listings per host, log price and log reviews), a clustered map, trend lines and a forecast, then a dashboard. The interactive charts on this page are rebuilt from the same data for the web.