How much does a hunting lease cost in Mississippi?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Mississippi typically asks about $4,488 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $2,732 and $7,030. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $14.96 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 14% below 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 27 filtered lease listings from Mississippi. 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 Mississippi

$4,488

per year · 300 acres · Mississippi

Comparable properties list $2,732–$7,030, or about $14.96 per acre.

That is 14% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Mississippi 35 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

27 Mississippi listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Mississippi 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	$2,469	$1,580–$3,802	$61.72
100 acres	$3,240	$2,074–$4,990	$32.40
250 acres	$4,252	$2,721–$6,548	$17.01
500 acres	$5,222	$2,763–$8,580	$10.44
1,000 acres	$6,414	$2,805–$11,242	$6.41
2,500 acres	$8,417	$2,862–$16,069	$3.37

The market

Hunting Mississippi

Mississippi is deep hunting-club country with a large deer harvest and only 4.2% public land, and yet its rates sit below the national median — a reminder that access scarcity alone does not set price. Timber company ground makes up much of the leasable acreage. Delta properties that carry both deer and ducks are the exception that prices well above the state figure.

Nationally, Mississippi has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 38 of 50 states at 4.2% public, and one of the denser whitetail herds in the country at 2.5 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Turkey
Waterfowl

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	4.2% of the state 1,268,000 acres · 38 of 50
Bucks harvested	119,105 2.5 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey, Waterfowl

Within the state

Where Mississippi prices differ

The $14.96 per-acre figure above is a Mississippi 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.
Delta	Rich bottomland with the state's largest deer and duck value stacked on top; prices well above state average.
Hill country	Pine and hardwood club leases, the volume market.
Piney woods south	Timber company plantation leased cheaply in large blocks.

Your property

Price your own Mississippi 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 Mississippi lease price

Nearby markets

How Mississippi compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Mississippi.
State	Per acre	vs. Mississippi
Utah	$15.21	higher
Tennessee	$15.35	higher
Kansas	$15.44	higher
Hawaii	$15.45	higher

Mississippi hunting guides

Mississippi Hunting Lease Prices 2026 | Complete MS Guide to Rates, Counties & Laws

Methodology

How we estimate Mississippi 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. 27 of those listings were in Mississippi, so the Mississippi 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.