Stoop & Kin

Neosho County, Kansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Neosho County averaged $2,282 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 54th cheapest of the 105 counties in Kansas, 2% below the Kansas average in the same census ($2,324).

In the 2017 census it was $1,963 an acre, so the average has risen 16% in five years.

Neosho County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $2,282
The same, 2017 $1,963 +16%
Farms counted, 2022 612 (687 in 2017)
Average farm 522 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 87.4%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $111,300 ± $10,100

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 Neosho County, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Woodson County $2,005 $81,200
Labette County $2,412 $94,600
Allen County $2,466 $107,600
Wilson County $2,558 $93,500
Montgomery County $2,685 $101,700
Bourbon County $2,844 $113,800
Crawford County $3,097 $132,600

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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