The 13 States That Surprisingly Have More Hunters than Minnesota

Hunting is a popular pastime in Minnesota. Even though I grew up in the Twin Cities, there were still plenty of people who would leave to go hunting elsewhere in the state.

I'm not a hunter myself and I know next to nothing about hunting but my husband grew up hunting and his extended family hunts quite a bit during that time of year.

So when I found out that Minnesota isn't one of the top states for registered hunters I was really surprised!

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Despite not being a hunter myself, I at least knew of quite a few families who would go hunting. Also, we're such an outdoorsy state and hunting is an outdoorsy sport I thought for sure we'd be up in the top 10 if not the top 5.

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But no, based on data from the US Fish and Wildlife Service that was analyzed by Stacker, Minnesota has the 14th most registered hunters in the US per capita.

When the data was collected, 9.8% of Minnesotans had a paid-for hunting license (or 550,087 people).

The state that has the most registered hunters had a whopping 24.1% of their residents with a hunting license. However, it's a smaller state, so the total number of people who had a license at the time the data was collected was 212,736.

So even though Minnesota has many more registered hunters, because of how many Minnesota don't have a hunting license, it took us down on the list.

Here are all of the states ranked based on the number of registered hunters per capita. I'm curious to see what you think of the state who beat us!