● Ranked from real New York data · 2024-25 season
Highest deer harvest counties in New York
Where New York hunters actually kill deer, ranked by the state agency's own reported county harvest. Tags are over-the-counter — the question is where the deer are, and how much of that county you can hunt.
#1Steuben County15,595 deer3.1% public→#2Chautauqua County8,895 deer3.2% public→#3Allegany County8,737 deer8.2% public→#4Cattaraugus County8,337 deer4.5% public→#5Jefferson County6,871 deer4.5% public→#6St. Lawrence County6,589 deer14.3% public→#7Livingston County6,426 deer3.1% public→#8Erie County6,327 deer0.4% public→#9Ontario County5,998 deer2.3% public→#10Delaware County5,715 deer7.4% public→#11Chenango County5,528 deer13.9% public→#12Sullivan County5,254 deer5.8% public→
How this list is ranked
Ranked by reported deer harvest per county from the state wildlife agency, shown alongside each county's huntable public-land share. High harvest + low public land means the deer are on private ground.
Data year: 2024-25 season. Each row links to its full page with every number cited to its agency source. A place missing a signal is never guessed — it simply can't rank.
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