Hunting Lease Prices in Kansas
$4,632
per year · 300 acres · Kansas
Comparable properties list $2,820–$7,256, or about $15.44 per acre.
That is 11% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Kansas 32 of 48 states by price.
What this rests on
Well supported
33 Kansas listings
This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.
By property size
Typical Kansas lease prices
| Property size | Typical asking price | Usual range | Per acre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 acres | $2,548 | $1,631–$3,924 | $63.70 |
| 100 acres | $3,344 | $2,140–$5,150 | $33.44 |
| 250 acres | $4,388 | $2,808–$6,758 | $17.55 |
| 500 acres | $5,390 | $2,851–$8,855 | $10.78 |
| 1,000 acres | $6,620 | $2,895–$11,603 | $6.62 |
| 2,500 acres | $8,687 | $2,954–$16,585 | $3.47 |
The market
Hunting Kansas
Kansas has 0.8% public hunting land and a strong out-of-state trophy reputation, particularly in the eastern third. Its walk-in hunting access program leases private ground for public use, which quietly competes with the private lease market for the same acres. Upland bird hunting is a genuine second market on the western half of the state.
Nationally, Kansas has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 48 of 50 states at 0.8% public, and a thinner whitetail herd than the eastern average at 0.5 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.
- Whitetail deer
- Mule deer
- Turkey
- Upland birds
| Public hunting land | 0.8% of the state 420,000 acres · 48 of 50 |
|---|---|
| Bucks harvested | 41,982 0.5 per square mile · 2022 season |
| Leased for | Whitetail deer, Mule deer, Turkey, Upland birds |
Within the state
Where Kansas prices differ
The $15.44 per-acre figure above is a Kansas average. These are the sub-markets it averages over, and they do not trade alike:
| Eastern third | Timbered creek bottoms and crop edges holding the trophy reputation and the highest rates. |
|---|---|
| Flint Hills | Big grassland tracts leased cheaply per acre, often for a mix of deer and birds. |
| Western plains | River corridors carry the deer value; the uplands lease for birds. |
Your property
Price your own Kansas 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.
Nearby markets
How Kansas compares
| State | Per acre | vs. Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | $15.35 | lower |
| Hawaii | $15.45 | higher |
| Missouri | $15.45 | higher |
| Virginia | $15.48 | higher |
Further reading
Kansas hunting guides
Methodology
How we estimate Kansas 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. 33 of those listings were in Kansas, so the Kansas 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.