Stoop & Kin

Searcy County, Arkansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Searcy County averaged $2,700 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 7th cheapest of the 75 counties in Arkansas, 31% below the Arkansas average in the same census ($3,921).

In the 2017 census it was $1,883 an acre, so the average has risen 43% in five years.

Searcy County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $2,700
The same, 2017 $1,883 +43%
Farms counted, 2022 562 (631 in 2017)
Average farm 312 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 41.1%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $110,000 ± $15,700

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 Searcy County, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Marion County $2,692 $163,300
Stone County $2,891 $171,600
Baxter County $3,094 $174,600
Newton County $3,159 $169,300
Van Buren County $3,436 $135,700
Pope County $3,861 $170,100
Boone County $3,933 $188,900

Buying land here: the Arkansas rules

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