Stoop & Kin

Pawnee County, Kansas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Pawnee County averaged $1,931 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 34th cheapest of the 105 counties in Kansas, 17% below the Kansas average in the same census ($2,324).

In the 2017 census it was $1,658 an acre, so the average has risen 16% in five years.

Pawnee County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $1,931
The same, 2017 $1,658 +16%
Farms counted, 2022 337 (362 in 2017)
Average farm 1,225 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 85.5%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $93,000 ± $15,500

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 Pawnee County, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Ness County $1,424 $89,700
Hodgeman County $1,488 $101,600
Rush County $1,697 $83,600
Barton County $1,821 $126,400
Edwards County $1,957 $70,900
Stafford County $2,086 $97,600

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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