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ADA Porta Potty Rental: Which Companies Have Them

1,094 of the 1,976 independent porta potty companies we checked say they rent ADA units, or 55%. Updated regularly.

Wheelchair accessible: a wider door, a ground-level entry, grab bars and room to turn. A public event generally needs at least one, and they run out first.

States with the most companies renting ADA units
State CompaniesShare of state
Texas 128 70% of 182
California 113 64% of 176
Florida 68 72% of 94
Georgia 46 69% of 67
New York 44 70% of 63
North Carolina 43 61% of 71
Michigan 42 53% of 80
Ohio 38 72% of 53
Arizona 36 69% of 52
Pennsylvania 33 46% of 71
Wisconsin 33 79% of 42
Colorado 32 63% of 51
Washington 26 51% of 51
Tennessee 25 58% of 43
Illinois 24 67% of 36
Oregon 24 69% of 35
South Carolina 24 62% of 39
Indiana 21 58% of 36
New Jersey 20 56% of 36
Massachusetts 19 53% of 36
Minnesota 18 69% of 26
Virginia 17 59% of 29
Kansas 15 79% of 19
Louisiana 15 75% of 20
Connecticut 14 67% of 21

What an ADA unit is

An ADA accessible unit is wider and squarer than a standard one, with a ground-level entry rather than a step, a door wide enough for a wheelchair, grab bars and a clear turning circle inside. The 2010 ADA Standards set the dimensions; a unit that merely has a ramp bolted on does not meet them.

Who rents ADA units

Anything open to the public. Public events, municipal work, festivals, and any site where a member of the public might reasonably turn up. It is also the unit that tends to run out first on a busy weekend. How many any one yard holds is the number nobody publishes, which is exactly why it is the one to ask about by name.

What ADA accessible unit rental costs

Measured rates for ADA units run $111 to $199 a week (6 companies), and $135 to $290 a month (7 companies), before delivery. Delivery is usually $50 to $150 on top and is priced off the distance from the yard to your site, rather than from you to them. Those counts are companies, not quotes, and they are small on purpose: they are every operator we found publishing a rate at all, which is the point made on the methodology page. Two calls will still beat any national figure. Every unit type priced side by side.

What to ask before you book ADA units

  1. Is it a true ADA unit, or a standard unit with a ramp?
  2. Is the entry at ground level, and is the ground where it is siting firm and flat?
  3. How many do you have in the yard on my dates?
  4. Can it be placed on the accessible route rather than at the back of the run?

Worth settling before you book. Placement quietly undoes the unit. An accessible toilet at the end of a gravel path is not accessible, and siting is the part that gets decided on the day by whoever is driving the truck unless you agree it in advance.

Where ADA units are easy to find, and where they are not

Coverage is not even. In Wisconsin, 79% of the independent companies we checked name ADA units on their own website. In Maryland it is 33%. In a thin market that is one or two yards inside driving distance, and on a summer weekend they are committed early. See coverage across every state.

The gap matters more for accessible units than for anything else on this site, because an accessible unit is frequently a condition of a public event rather than an upgrade to it. Our price study sets out the full state-by-state measurement, including the states where fewer than a third of operators advertise one at all. A blank is not proof a company has no accessible unit; it does mean somebody searching cannot tell, which for a planner working to a deadline comes to the same thing.

How many ADA units do you need?

For an event the starting point is one unit per 50 guests over four hours, from the ANSI/PSAI Z4.3 guidance, with more added for longer days and where alcohol is served. On a job site it is law rather than guidance: 29 CFR 1926.51(c) sets one toilet for up to 20 workers. ADA units sit on top of that count rather than inside it, and any event open to the public should have at least one. Work it out for your headcount.

Finding ADA units near you

Pick your state below, then your town. Every company page shows which units that company publishes, with the sentence we read it from, so you can check it before you call rather than after.

The other unit types

Questions about ADA units

How much does ada rental cost?
$111 to $199 a week (6 companies), and $135 to $290 a month (7 companies), plus $50 to $150 delivery. Those are measured from the operators who publish a rate, which is a small minority of the trade, so call two yards and compare what each includes.
How many companies rent ADA units?
1,094 of the 1,976 independent companies we checked name ADA units on their own website, which is 55%. A blank means the website does not say, not that the yard has not got one.
What is included in ada rental?
Delivery, collection and servicing on the agreed schedule. Placement quietly undoes the unit. An accessible toilet at the end of a gravel path is not accessible, and siting is the part that gets decided on the day by whoever is driving the truck unless you agree it in advance.
What should I ask before booking?
1. Is it a true ADA unit, or a standard unit with a ramp? 2. Is the entry at ground level, and is the ground where it is siting firm and flat? 3. How many do you have in the yard on my dates?
Who usually rents ADA units?
Anything open to the public. Public events, municipal work, festivals, and any site where a member of the public might reasonably turn up. It is also the unit that tends to run out first on a busy weekend. How many any one yard holds is the number nobody publishes, which is exactly why it is the one to ask about by name.

Counted from what companies publish themselves, not from what they told us. A company with no ADA accessible unit listed may still have one. How this is collected.