Stoop & Kin

Franklin Parish, Louisiana

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

Farmland and its buildings in Franklin Parish averaged $3,219 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 21st cheapest of the 64 parishes in Louisiana, 11% below the Louisiana average in the same census ($3,600).

In the 2017 census it was $2,836 an acre, so the average has risen 14% in five years.

Franklin Parish in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $3,219
The same, 2017 $2,836 +14%
Farms counted, 2022 747 (797 in 2017)
Average farm 341 acres
Share of the parish that is farmland 63.7%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $113,000 ± $11,800

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 Franklin Parish, cheapest farmland first.

Neighbouring parishes
parishFarmland an acre Median home
Tensas Parish $2,843 $86,300
Catahoula Parish $2,908 $101,800
Caldwell Parish $3,147 $93,300
Richland Parish $3,401 $141,900
Madison Parish $3,764 $96,200

Buying land here: the Louisiana rules

Since January 2026 a tax sale sells a debt, not the land.

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