The 1st Ward holds more active shared-housing registrations — the city’s term for Airbnb-style rental permissions, and the term this page counts — than any other Chicago ward: 276, with the 44th (224) and 27th (191) behind it, and the top ten wards together holding 1,755 of the citywide 3,852, about 46 percent. Two boundaries carry every number here, both inherited from our full analysis of the city’s three house-share files: a registration is the city’s permission for a host, not proof of an active listing on any platform — and the counts are by ward because the ward is the geography the file itself carries, with its host-name and street-address columns never fetched at all. Every one of the 50 wards has at least one registration; the 13th has exactly one. These are the city’s own registration records, and this page takes no position on where anyone should live or host.
1. The 1st Ward — 276 registrations
The 1st Ward carries 276 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval. It sits more than fifty registrations ahead of any other ward.
2. The 44th Ward — 224 registrations
The 44th Ward carries 224 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
3. The 27th Ward — 191 registrations
The 27th Ward carries 191 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
4. The 32nd Ward — 181 registrations
The 32nd Ward carries 181 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
5. The 4th Ward — 166 registrations
The 4th Ward carries 166 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval. It is tied with the 35th at 166.
6. The 35th Ward — 166 registrations
The 35th Ward carries 166 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval. It is tied with the 4th at 166.
7. The 47th Ward — 160 registrations
The 47th Ward carries 160 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
8. The 25th Ward — 135 registrations
The 25th Ward carries 135 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
9. The 43rd Ward — 129 registrations
The 43rd Ward carries 129 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
10. The 11th Ward — 127 registrations
The 11th Ward carries 127 active shared-housing registrations in the city’s file at the August 16, 2026 retrieval.
Questions these numbers can answer
Which Chicago ward has the most shared-housing (Airbnb-style) registrations? The 1st Ward, with 276 active registrations in the city’s file — but a registration is permission to host, not an active listing, so platform counts could differ.
How many Airbnb-style rentals are registered in Chicago? The city’s file listed 3,852 active shared-housing registrations at the August 16, 2026 retrieval, spread across all 50 wards. The file updates daily, so the count moves.
Why count by ward? Because the ward is the geography the registration file itself carries. The file also holds host names and home addresses; the analysis behind this list never fetched those columns, so ward totals are the finest grain this page uses.
Where these numbers come from
The city’s Active Shared Housing Registrations dataset (qfyy-956j, 3,852 rows at the August 16, 2026 retrieval, updated daily), counted by the file’s own ward field. The opt-out side — the 2,230 buildings that filed to bar house-sharing — and the rest of the method are in the full analysis: Chicago’s House-Share Ledger: 3,852 Active Registrations — and 2,230 Buildings That Filed to Bar House-Sharing.
Computed by KCM Desk from records retrieved August 16, 2026. If you spot an error, corrections come first.