Stoop & Kin

McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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

Farmland and its buildings in McCurtain County averaged $2,347 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 36th cheapest of the 77 counties in Oklahoma, 7% above the Oklahoma average in the same census ($2,192).

In the 2017 census it was $2,141 an acre, so the average has risen 10% in five years.

McCurtain County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $2,347
The same, 2017 $2,141 +10%
Farms counted, 2022 1,177 (1,479 in 2017)
Average farm 282 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 28%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $144,500 ± $13,600

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, Oklahoma county data, Table 8; Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, table B25077

Next door

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

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Pushmataha County $2,244 $132,300
Choctaw County $2,605 $126,500
Le Flore County $2,896 $135,700

Buying land here: the Oklahoma rules

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