How much does it cost to remove a honey locust?
Removing a honey locust around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. This became the default replacement tree after emerald ash borer cleared the ash, and central Indiana now has street after street of it — which is the problem. Extension pathologists have warned for decades that honeylocust's pest and disease list turned serious precisely because it was overplanted, and a monoculture block moves mimosa webworm, mites, and canker through in a hurry.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Roughly 40 to 70 ft tall with a broad, open, spreading crown and fast early growth. Do not read long life into that size — during the 1980s decline, honeylocusts under 30 years old were dying of Thyronectria canker across multiple states — and the open light branching means removal usually sits in a lower cost bracket than a comparable-height oak.
Condition changes the price
Counterintuitive but well documented — honeylocust is rated susceptible to ice damage, and in the Urbana ice-storm survey it posted one of the highest damage rates of any major street-tree species. Its fine, heavily lateral branching catches an enormous ice load relative to its wood volume, so it breaks up in ice far more than its reputation as a bulletproof urban tree suggests.
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