Stoop & Kin

Mississippi County, Arkansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Mississippi County averaged $4,584 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 67th cheapest of the 75 counties in Arkansas, 17% above the Arkansas average in the same census ($3,921).

In the 2017 census it was $3,436 an acre, so the average has risen 33% in five years.

Mississippi County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $4,584
The same, 2017 $3,436 +33%
Farms counted, 2022 268 (284 in 2017)
Average farm 1,925 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 89.5%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $122,500 ± $8,206

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, Arkansas county data, Table 8; Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, table B25077

Next door

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

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Crittenden County $4,236 $160,200
Poinsett County $4,440 $103,000
Craighead County $4,451 $210,400

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