Stoop & Kin

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

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

Farmland and its buildings in East Baton Rouge Parish averaged $8,027 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 61st cheapest of the 64 parishes in Louisiana, 123% above the Louisiana average in the same census ($3,600).

In the 2017 census it was $8,251 an acre, so the average has fallen 3% in five years.

East Baton Rouge Parish in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $8,027
The same, 2017 $8,251 -3%
Farms counted, 2022 435 (449 in 2017)
Average farm 120 acres
Share of the parish that is farmland 18%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $248,800 ± $3,342

The farm figure is land and buildings together, averaged over every farm in the parish, from the largest ranch to the smallest holding. It is for comparing one parish 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, Louisiana county data, Table 8; Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, table B25077

Next door

The parishes that share a border with East Baton Rouge Parish, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring parishes
parishFarmland an acre Median home
Iberville Parish $2,562 $172,800
St. Helena Parish $4,232 $77,300
East Feliciana Parish $4,244 $228,100
West Baton Rouge Parish $4,693 $229,900
Ascension Parish $5,985 $279,600
Livingston Parish $6,940 $230,600

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