The average value of farm real estate per acre in every US county the USDA publishes, straight from the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Free to search, free to cite. Find your county and see where it sits against the national and state median.
Type a county name to see its average value per acre and how it ranks against every other US county.
Across 3,072 counties, the median acre of farm real estate is $4,382. Most land sits in the green and amber bands. The red tail is premium farmland and built-up counties near cities.
Why the high end looks high: this figure is the value of farm real estate per acre, so in counties near cities it reflects development pressure rather than farming. A small group of dense urban counties (Staten Island, Brooklyn, urban New Jersey) show six and seven figure per acre values because only token farmland remains there at urban prices. Those are kept in the full dataset but held out of the rankings above as outliers. For raw rural and recreational ground, the affordable end on the left is the relevant picture.
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Across 3,072 US counties, the median acre of farm real estate was worth $4,382 in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, with most counties falling between $1,785 and $10,136 an acre. (FrontierAcre Price Per Acre by County, USDA NASS data.)
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Suggested citation: FrontierAcre (2026). Price Per Acre by County. frontieracre.com/price-per-acre-by-county.html. Built on the USDA 2022 Census of Agriculture.
Every number is the United States Department of Agriculture's 2022 Census of Agriculture figure for that county: the average value of farm real estate, land and the buildings on it, per acre, across every farm in the county. The Census is the full count taken every five years by USDA NASS, and 2022 is the most recent release. We publish 3,072 of roughly 3,143 US counties. The rest are withheld by USDA to protect the privacy of counties with very few farms.
Because the figure includes buildings and reflects whatever land sells for locally, it tracks two things at once: farm productivity in rural counties, and development pressure near towns and cities. That is why urban edge counties read high and remote western counties read low. It is a county wide average, not a parcel level appraisal. A single lot can sit well above or below its county line depending on size, access, water, zoning and condition.
To turn a county figure into a number for a real parcel, run it through the Land Value Estimator, which adjusts for land type, parcel size, access, utilities, zoning, water and terrain. For state level baselines and year on year movement, see the Price Per Acre Index by state.
