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Nashville Airbnb Host Statistics (2026): Response Times, Superhosts, Reviews

Original Inside Airbnb data for Nashville: how fast hosts respond, the Superhost gap by response speed, and how 8,449 reviewed listings score on communication.

By Jake Sheff, founder of Rezi Updated July 3, 2026 3 min read

The short answer

In Nashville, 91.2% of Airbnb hosts with a measured response time reply within an hour and 8.8% take longer, based on Inside Airbnb data covering 9,443 listings. About 12.8% of reviewed Nashville listings score below 4.8 on communication.

Airbnb does not publish host response metrics, but Inside Airbnb captures the response-time badge from public host profiles along with review subscores. This page covers Nashville: 9,443 listings, response-time data as of the 2025-09-23 snapshot, with review subscores from the 2025-09-23 snapshot. For the three-market national picture, see the full Airbnb host response time statistics analysis.

How fast Nashville hosts respond

Response timeShare of measured listingsListings
Within an hour91.2%8,033
Within a few hours5.7%501
Within a day2.6%225
A few days or more0.6%50

8.8% of measured Nashville hosts take more than an hour, faster than the 28.2% average across the three large markets in our flagship analysis. Another 6.7% of Nashville listings report no response time at all, which Airbnb shows when a host has had no recent inquiries.

The Superhost gap in Nashville

Nashville hosts who respond within an hour are Superhosts at a 68.8% rate (n=7,664), versus 2% for hosts who take a few days or more (n=50, a small sample, so treat the exact figure loosely). Part of that gap is mechanical, since Airbnb requires a 90% response rate for Superhost status, but it makes the point: response speed is one of the few host habits Airbnb formally measures and badges.

Communication scores in Nashville reviews

Of 8,449 reviewed Nashville listings, 12.8% (1,080) score below 4.8 on the communication subscore, faster than the 17.7% three-market average, and 16.4% score below 4.8 on check-in. The mean communication score is 4.895, and 32.7% of scored listings hold a perfect 5.0, so a listing under 4.8 sits well behind the local pack.

What Nashville guests write

Nashville listings carry 784,894 guest reviews all-time. In reviews written since January 2024, the word "responsive" appears in 13.29%, while explicit communication-failure phrases like "never responded" or "could not get in" appear in 338 reviews from that period. Guests notice and record response behavior in both directions.

What this means if you host in Nashville

  • The within-the-hour bar is the visible one: 91.2% of measured Nashville hosts already clear it, so being slower is a competitive disadvantage guests can see on your profile.
  • The complaints guests actually write are dominated by unanswered messages, and those cluster at predictable times: overnight, during work hours, mid-travel.
  • Multi-day silence is what reliably drags overall ratings down; a fast reply system removes that failure mode entirely.

Why we publish this data

The unanswered-message problem is what Rezi exists to remove: an AI co-host that answers guest texts and phone calls in seconds, 24/7, on a dedicated number per listing, for a flat $45 per listing per month.

Methodology and sources

Data from Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com), licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Nashville snapshots used: 2025-09-23 for response-time and Superhost fields (the most recent snapshot with those fields populated), and 2025-09-23 for review subscores. Listings with no reported response time are excluded from response-time denominators. Scripts and outputs are preserved in the analysis repository. Three caveats: response-time data reflects its snapshot date, the Superhost correlation is partly mechanical, and one city is not a national sample. Analysis by Rezi.

What percentage of Nashville Airbnb hosts respond within an hour?
91.2% of Nashville listings with a measured response time show hosts responding within an hour, per Inside Airbnb data (snapshot 2025-09-23). 8.8% take longer.
Does response time affect Superhost status in Nashville?
The correlation is strong: 68.8% of within-the-hour Nashville hosts are Superhosts versus 2% of multi-day responders. Airbnb requires a 90% response rate for the badge, so part of the gap is built in.
How do Nashville hosts score on communication?
The mean communication subscore in Nashville is 4.895, with 32.7% of reviewed listings holding a perfect 5.0 and 12.8% sitting below 4.8, based on the 2025-09-23 Inside Airbnb snapshot.

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