How much does a hunting lease cost in South Carolina?

A 300-acre hunting lease in South Carolina typically asks about $5,313 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,234 and $8,322. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $17.71 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 2% 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 South Carolina 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 South Carolina estimate?

This rate blends listings in this state with the national median. It rests on 19 filtered lease listings from South Carolina. 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 South Carolina

$5,313

per year · 300 acres · South Carolina

Comparable properties list $3,234–$8,322, or about $17.71 per acre.

That is 2% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking South Carolina 20 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Moderately supported

19 South Carolina listings

This rate blends listings in this state with the national median.

By property size

Typical South Carolina 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	$2,923	$1,871–$4,501	$73.07
100 acres	$3,836	$2,455–$5,907	$38.36
250 acres	$5,033	$3,221–$7,751	$20.13
500 acres	$6,182	$3,271–$10,157	$12.36
1,000 acres	$7,593	$3,321–$13,308	$7.59
2,500 acres	$9,964	$3,388–$19,023	$3.99

The market

Hunting South Carolina

South Carolina runs one of the longest deer seasons in the nation and records three bucks taken per square mile on 4.3% public land. Hunting clubs on timber company ground are the dominant form. Lowcountry properties that carry ducks as well as deer sit at the top of the local market.

Nationally, South Carolina has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 37 of 50 states at 4.3% public, and one of the denser whitetail herds in the country at 3.0 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
Waterfowl

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	4.3% of the state 819,000 acres · 37 of 50
Bucks harvested	90,047 3.0 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey, Hogs, Waterfowl

Within the state

Where South Carolina prices differ

The $17.71 per-acre figure above is a South Carolina 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.
Lowcountry	Coastal plain holding deer and ducks together; the premium end of the state's market.
Midlands	Sandhill and timber club country, the volume market.
Upstate	Foothill terrain with lower deer density and cheaper leases.

Your property

Price your own South Carolina 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 South Carolina compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to South Carolina.
State	Per acre	vs. South Carolina
Kentucky	$18.01	higher
Wyoming	$18.10	higher
Oklahoma	$18.14	higher
Iowa	$18.30	higher

South Carolina hunting guides

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Methodology

How we estimate South Carolina 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. 19 of those listings were in South Carolina, so the South Carolina 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.