Stoop & Kin

Issaquena County, Mississippi

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

Farmland and its buildings in Issaquena County averaged $2,878 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 24th cheapest of the 82 counties in Mississippi, 15% below the Mississippi average in the same census ($3,369).

In the 2017 census it was $2,737 an acre, so the average has risen 5% in five years.

Issaquena County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $2,878
The same, 2017 $2,737 +5%
Farms counted, 2022 103 (119 in 2017)
Average farm 1,287 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 50.1%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $110,800 ± $43,400

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. The home value comes from a survey that reaches few homes here, so its margin of error is wide.

Source: USDA, 2022 Census of Agriculture, Mississippi county data, Table 8; Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, table B25077

Next door

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

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Warren County $2,627 $156,400
Yazoo County $3,216 $153,800
Sharkey County $3,746 $98,000
Washington County $4,488 $104,000

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