How much does a hunting lease cost in Tennessee?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Tennessee typically asks about $4,605 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $2,803 and $7,213. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $15.35 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 11% 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 Tennessee 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 Tennessee estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 25 filtered lease listings from Tennessee. 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 Tennessee

$4,605

per year · 300 acres · Tennessee

Comparable properties list $2,803–$7,213, or about $15.35 per acre.

That is 11% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Tennessee 33 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

25 Tennessee listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Tennessee 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	$2,533	$1,621–$3,901	$63.33
100 acres	$3,324	$2,128–$5,120	$33.24
250 acres	$4,363	$2,792–$6,718	$17.45
500 acres	$5,358	$2,835–$8,803	$10.72
1,000 acres	$6,581	$2,878–$11,535	$6.58
2,500 acres	$8,637	$2,937–$16,488	$3.45

The market

Hunting Tennessee

Tennessee has 8.9% public hunting land and a large WMA system, and its lease rates land just below the national median. West Tennessee farm country carries the trophy interest and the higher prices; the eastern mountains lease considerably cheaper. Spring turkey is a strong second season on most leased ground.

Nationally, Tennessee has a middling amount of public hunting ground — ranking 24 of 50 states at 8.9% public, and a solid whitetail herd by national standards at 2.1 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	8.9% of the state 2,356,000 acres · 24 of 50
Bucks harvested	86,316 2.1 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Turkey, Waterfowl

Within the state

Where Tennessee prices differ

The $15.35 per-acre figure above is a Tennessee 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.
West Tennessee	Mississippi bottom farm country with the trophy interest and the highest rates in the state.
Middle Tennessee	Rolling farm and timber around Nashville, the volume market and the most consistently available ground in the state.
Cumberland Plateau and east	Forested plateau and mountain country with large public holdings and lower deer density; considerably cheaper than the west.

Your property

Price your own Tennessee 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 Tennessee compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Tennessee.
State	Per acre	vs. Tennessee
Kansas	$15.44	higher
Hawaii	$15.45	higher
Missouri	$15.45	higher
Virginia	$15.48	higher

Tennessee hunting guides

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Methodology

How we estimate Tennessee 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. 25 of those listings were in Tennessee, so the Tennessee 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.