How much does a hunting lease cost in Georgia?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Georgia typically asks about $5,685 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,461 and $8,905. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

What is the average price per acre for hunting land in Georgia?

About $18.95 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 9% above the national median of $17.32. Per-acre rates fall as properties get larger, so this figure is quoted at a fixed 300 acres to stay comparable between states.

Are these Georgia lease prices what hunters actually pay?

No. Every figure here is an asking price — what landowners list at, not what a lease finally closes for. The model is fit on listing data, so it reflects what a property is likely to be advertised at.

How reliable is the Georgia estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 39 filtered lease listings from Georgia. Across all states, roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, and state and acreage together explain about a quarter of the variation in asking price.

Hunting Lease Prices in Georgia

$5,685

per year · 300 acres · Georgia

Comparable properties list $3,461–$8,905, or about $18.95 per acre.

That is 9% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Georgia 13 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

39 Georgia listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Georgia lease prices

Yearly asking prices for a property with no amenities or premium habitat specified. Adding food plots, a cabin or a trophy species raises the estimate; the calculator below accounts for those.
Property size	Typical asking price	Usual range	Per acre
40 acres	$3,127	$2,002–$4,816	$78.19
100 acres	$4,104	$2,627–$6,320	$41.04
250 acres	$5,386	$3,447–$8,294	$21.54
500 acres	$6,615	$3,500–$10,868	$13.23
1,000 acres	$8,125	$3,553–$14,240	$8.12
2,500 acres	$10,662	$3,625–$20,355	$4.26

The market

Hunting Georgia

Georgia has a deep hunting-club tradition: groups of hunters take a tract together for the season and split it, which is the form most listings here take. Only 3.3% of the state is public hunting land, so clubs are the main access route for a lot of Georgia hunters. Pine timber company ground makes up a large share of what is available.

Nationally, Georgia has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 40 of 50 states at 3.3% public, and a solid whitetail herd by national standards at 1.7 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Turkey
Hogs

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	3.3% of the state 1,215,000 acres · 40 of 50
Bucks harvested	96,261 1.7 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey, Hogs

Within the state

Where Georgia prices differ

The $18.95 per-acre figure above is a Georgia average. These are the sub-markets it averages over, and they do not trade alike:

Directional, not measured — the estimate is fitted at state level and has no sub-state resolution.
Middle Georgia	Pine and hardwood club country, the bulk of the state's lease listings.
Southwest plantation belt	Quail plantation country where birds, not deer, set the price and rates run far above state average.
North Georgia mountains	Steep, public-heavy and the cheapest leasing in the state.

Your property

Price your own Georgia land

The table above assumes nothing about your land beyond its size. Add your game species, habitat, forage and amenities for an estimate that reflects the property you actually have.

Calculate a Georgia lease price

Nearby markets

How Georgia compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Georgia.
State	Per acre	vs. Georgia
Iowa	$18.30	lower
Illinois	$18.49	lower
Vermont	$18.75	lower
Connecticut	$19.45	higher

Georgia hunting guides

Georgia Hunting Leases 2026 | Land for Lease, Prices & Laws (GA Guide)

Methodology

How we estimate Georgia lease prices

The estimate comes from a model fit on 979 filtered hunting lease listings across 48 states. A state's rate and the way price scales with acreage are both measured from that data. 39 of those listings were in Georgia, so the Georgia rate is drawn largely from that state's own market.

Three things are worth knowing before you quote these numbers:

These are asking prices. They are what landowners list at, not what a lease closes for.
State and size explain about a quarter of the variation. Roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, which is what two features can support — it is the honest width of the answer, not a rough edge waiting to be tuned out.
The land and deer figures above are context, not inputs. They come from Backcountry Chronicles (public hunting acreage) and the National Deer Association's 2024 Deer Report (2022 buck harvest). Neither feeds the estimate, and both correlate only weakly with what states actually charge.
Habitat, game and amenity adjustments are expert judgement, not fit from data — the listing feed does not carry those fields. They are set to be neutral on an average property, so they nudge the estimate rather than drive it.