Stoop & Kin

Doniphan County, Kansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Doniphan County averaged $4,754 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 101st cheapest of the 105 counties in Kansas, 105% above the Kansas average in the same census ($2,324).

In the 2017 census it was $3,431 an acre, so the average has risen 39% in five years.

Doniphan County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $4,754
The same, 2017 $3,431 +39%
Farms counted, 2022 337 (430 in 2017)
Average farm 458 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 61.3%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $135,200 ± $20,600

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

Next door

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

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Atchison County $4,435 $145,700
Brown County $5,136 $118,100

Buying land here: the Kansas rules

Septic rules are set county by county, and the farm tax follows the use, not a form.

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

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