How much does a hunting lease cost in Indiana?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Indiana typically asks about $6,078 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,700 and $9,521. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $20.26 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 17% 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 Indiana 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 Indiana estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 41 filtered lease listings from Indiana. 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 Indiana

$6,078

per year · 300 acres · Indiana

Comparable properties list $3,700–$9,521, or about $20.26 per acre.

That is 17% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Indiana 8 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

41 Indiana listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Indiana 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	$3,344	$2,140–$5,149	$83.59
100 acres	$4,388	$2,808–$6,757	$43.88
250 acres	$5,758	$3,685–$8,867	$23.03
500 acres	$7,072	$3,742–$11,619	$14.14
1,000 acres	$8,687	$3,799–$15,225	$8.69
2,500 acres	$11,399	$3,876–$21,762	$4.56

The market

Hunting Indiana

Indiana posted the largest year-over-year buck-harvest increase in the country going into the 2022 season, and it has almost no public land — 2.2% — to absorb the resulting pressure. Farm-country leases with standing corn and beans are the standard product. Rates run above the national median and the state's own listing sample is one of the larger ones behind this model.

Nationally, Indiana has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 43 of 50 states at 2.2% public, and a solid whitetail herd by national standards at 1.9 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Turkey

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	2.2% of the state 502,000 acres · 43 of 50
Bucks harvested	68,912 1.9 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey

Within the state

Where Indiana prices differ

The $20.26 per-acre figure above is a Indiana 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.
Southern hills	Hardwood ridge country holding the state's best bucks and its dearest leases.
Central farmland	Corn and bean ground with high deer numbers and small woodlots.
Northern lakes and marsh	Fragmented, with waterfowl adding value on the right parcels.

Your property

Price your own Indiana 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.

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Nearby markets

How Indiana compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Indiana.
State	Per acre	vs. Indiana
Michigan	$20.16	lower
Alaska	$20.23	lower
Alabama	$20.24	lower
Delaware	$20.60	higher

Indiana hunting guides

Indiana Hunting Lease Prices 2026 | Complete IN Guide to Rates, Counties & Laws

Methodology

How we estimate Indiana 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. 41 of those listings were in Indiana, so the Indiana 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.