2025 U.S. Archery Market Size by State

The U.S. archery equipment market sits at roughly $607.6 million in 2024 and is on pace for $755.2 million by 2030, a 3.7% annual climb — but that national number hides how lopsided things get once you break it down state by state. A handful of states carry an outsized share of the country's bow shops, ranges and archery-specific retail; plenty of others barely register. The map below puts a 2025 estimate on every state, in millions of dollars — hover or tap any state to see its number.

Which U.S. States Have the Biggest Bowhunting Markets in 2025?

Bowhunting participation data backs up that pattern. Illinois alone issues around 209,000 archery-deer permits a year, Minnesota sells roughly 92,000 resident archery licenses, and Missouri bowhunters have registered more than 53,000 deer in a single season, according to the Archery Trade Association's state-by-state hunting data. Pennsylvania stands out with both the highest raw archery deer harvest in the country — roughly 148,000 deer, per the National Deer Association's Deer Report — and bowhunters accounting for close to a third of its total harvest. New Jersey sits at the other end of that same stat: about 65% of its deer harvest comes from archery gear, mostly because its archery season runs nearly five months while its firearms season is short and geographically limited.

Which U.S. States Have the Biggest Archery Markets in 2025?

This second map widens the lens past hunting alone. These are ArcheryEra's own modeled figures, not a government or manufacturer census — nobody publishes an official, archery-only breakdown by state. The estimate starts from the national total above and reallocates it using each state's share of hunting, shooting and trapping economic activity from the Bureau of Economic Analysis's Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account — a $16.5 billion category nationally, with Texas, Florida and California carrying the largest slices — cross-checked against state-level participation counts from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.

Target and 3D archery pull a handful of states up the list for reasons hunting data alone would miss. The Archery Shooters Association's 2023 season drew close to 17,500 shooters across nearly 400 state-level 3D events spread over 37 states, and that circuit — alongside consumer trackers like Southwick Associates' Hunter & Shooter Monitor and NSSF's shooting-sports economic impact reporting — is part of what keeps states with lighter hunting seasons but a strong target and 3D scene from disappearing off this map. Treat every number here as directional, not audited.

National totals vary a good deal depending on who is counting and what gets counted. Grand View Research pegs the market at $607.6 million for 2024, while IMARC Group's United States archery equipment market analysis puts the same category at $1.3 billion for 2025 and projects $1.9 billion by 2034, a 4.24% CAGR — with specialty and sports shops still outselling online and discount channels, and the West holding the largest regional share. Neither figure is wrong so much as scoped differently; "archery equipment" isn't a standardized line item in any government dataset, so every estimate, ours included, depends on which SKUs and channels get folded in.