Stoop & Kin

Cleburne County, Alabama

What farmland and houses are worth here, from the public figures, and where to look next.

Farmland and its buildings in Cleburne County averaged $4,160 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 50th cheapest of the 67 counties in Alabama, 14% above the Alabama average in the same census ($3,659).

In the 2017 census it was $3,460 an acre, so the average has risen 20% in five years.

Cleburne County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $4,160
The same, 2017 $3,460 +20%
Farms counted, 2022 268 (319 in 2017)
Average farm 175 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 13.1%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $165,600 ± $13,400

The farm figure is land and buildings together, averaged over every farm in the county, from the largest ranch to the smallest holding. It is for comparing one county with another, not a price for any parcel: a few acres with road frontage usually costs more an acre than the average, not less.

Source: USDA, 2022 Census of Agriculture, Alabama county data, Table 8; Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, table B25077

Next door

The counties that share a border with Cleburne County, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Cherokee County $3,646 $179,700
Talladega County $3,914 $149,200
Clay County $3,980 $156,700
Randolph County $4,005 $181,600
Calhoun County $5,855 $156,600

Buying land here: the Alabama rules

The owner has three years to redeem, and the state says itself that its tax deed is not clear title.

Each links to the Alabama guide, where every fact cites the statute or agency page it came from.

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