Stoop & Kin

Sevier County, Arkansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Sevier County averaged $3,481 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 31st cheapest of the 75 counties in Arkansas, 11% below the Arkansas average in the same census ($3,921).

In the 2017 census it was $2,668 an acre, so the average has risen 30% in five years.

Sevier County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $3,481
The same, 2017 $2,668 +30%
Farms counted, 2022 417 (540 in 2017)
Average farm 290 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 33.4%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $117,600 ± $13,200

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 Sevier County, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Little River County $2,717 $113,500
Polk County $3,901 $138,400
Howard County $4,175 $153,900

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