How much does a hunting lease cost in Louisiana?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Louisiana typically asks about $6,264 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,813 and $9,812. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $20.88 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 21% 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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana estimate?

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median. It rests on 9 filtered lease listings from Louisiana. 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 Louisiana

$6,264

per year · 300 acres · Louisiana

Comparable properties list $3,813–$9,812, or about $20.88 per acre.

That is 21% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Louisiana 5 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Thin data

9 Louisiana listings

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median.

By property size

Typical Louisiana 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	$3,446	$2,205–$5,307	$86.15
100 acres	$4,522	$2,894–$6,964	$45.22
250 acres	$5,934	$3,798–$9,139	$23.74
500 acres	$7,289	$3,856–$11,975	$14.58
1,000 acres	$8,952	$3,915–$15,691	$8.95
2,500 acres	$11,748	$3,995–$22,428	$4.70

The market

Hunting Louisiana

Louisiana's hunting-club culture is one of the oldest in the country, and most private ground moves through clubs that renew year after year rather than through open listings. Bucks per square mile here are among the highest measured. Marsh and flooded-timber waterfowl leases trade on a separate logic from the upland deer clubs and can carry much higher per-acre prices.

Nationally, Louisiana has a middling amount of public hunting ground — ranking 31 of 50 states at 4.9% public, and one of the denser whitetail herds in the country at 2.8 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Waterfowl
Hogs

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	4.9% of the state 1,349,000 acres · 31 of 50
Bucks harvested	120,824 2.8 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Waterfowl, Hogs

Within the state

Where Louisiana prices differ

The $20.88 per-acre figure above is a Louisiana 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.
North Louisiana	Upland pine and hardwood club country, the conventional deer lease market.
Delta and Atchafalaya	Flooded ground where duck value can exceed deer value several times over.
Coastal marsh	Waterfowl leases priced on blinds and access, not acreage.

Your property

Price your own Louisiana 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 Louisiana lease price

Nearby markets

How Louisiana compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Louisiana.
State	Per acre	vs. Louisiana
Alabama	$20.24	lower
Indiana	$20.26	lower
Delaware	$20.60	lower
Nebraska	$20.81	lower

Louisiana hunting guides

Louisiana Hunting Lease Prices 2026 | Complete LA Guide to Rates, Parishes & Laws

Methodology

How we estimate Louisiana 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. 9 of those listings were in Louisiana, so the Louisiana rate is pulled most of the way back toward the national median, which is what the model does when a state cannot support its own estimate.

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.