Campground Site Profit Calculator

Is your campground making money? Yearly profit, break-even occupancy and the nightly rate you need

Enter sites, months open, occupancy, nightly rate, commission, turnover labour and your fixed costs. You get yearly profit, break-even occupancy, the nightly rate that breaks even or reaches your target, and a table by occupancy.

It works from your own figures. It does not know what other parks charge.

Your campground

Sites you can rent out

Months open per year

Average occupancy while open, %

Nightly rate per site, dollars

Average stay, nights

Fee per stay: reservation or cleaning fee, dollars

Utilities and supplies per occupied night, dollars

Turnover minutes per stay: check-in, pad and fire ring

What an hour of that labour is worth, dollars

Booking-site commission, % of revenue

Yearly fixed costs: mortgage or lease, insurance, property tax, repairs, dollars

Profit you want per year, dollars

Fill in your campground, then click Work out the profit.

Result

Profit by occupancy

Occupancy	Occupied nights	Revenue a year	Profit a year

What it does, and what it leaves to you

Counts: available nights = sites x months open x 30.4; occupied nights = available x occupancy; income per night = (nightly rate + fee per stay / average stay) x (1 - commission); labour per night = turnover minutes / 60 x wage / average stay; profit = occupied nights x (income - utilities - labour) - yearly fixed costs; break-even occupancy = the occupancy at which profit is zero; break-even rate = the nightly rate at which profit is zero at your occupancy.
Not decided: what campers near you will pay, weekend versus weekday and peak versus shoulder-season mix, zoning, permits and health rules, lodging and sales taxes, income tax and depreciation, capital repairs, and weather closures.

Common questions

Is a campground or RV park profitable?

It depends on whether nightly rates over a short season cover utilities, turnover labour, booking commissions and the fixed costs of the land. Fixed costs run all year but income arrives only while open, so a few weak weekends move the result a lot. This calculator spreads the fixed costs over the nights you can sell and shows what is left.

What occupancy do I need to break even?

Yearly fixed costs divided by what each occupied night leaves after commission, utilities and turnover labour gives the nights you need. Divide by the nights available while open to get break-even occupancy. The page flags it when you run within ten points of it.

What nightly rate should I charge?

The page works backwards: the nightly rate at which the park breaks even, and the rate that reaches the yearly profit you want, at your current occupancy. It does not know rates at nearby parks, so compare the result with local rates before changing a price.

Why count turnover labour and commission?

Check-in, cleaning the pad and fire ring, and booking-site commissions come out of every stay. Set labour to zero to see the cash view, or to what you would pay a camp host to see the real one.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent; a test in the code asserts there are no network calls.