Stoop & Kin

Live Oak County, Texas

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

Farmland and its buildings in Live Oak County averaged $2,775 an acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture: the 127th cheapest of the 254 counties in Texas, 11% above the Texas average in the same census ($2,499).

In the 2017 census it was $2,159 an acre, so the average has risen 29% in five years.

Live Oak County in figures
Farmland and buildings, an acre, 2022 $2,775
The same, 2017 $2,159 +29%
Farms counted, 2022 793 (856 in 2017)
Average farm 522 acres
Share of the county that is farmland 62.2%
Median value of an owner-occupied home $159,200 ± $16,500

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

Next door

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

Neighbouring counties
countyFarmland an acre Median home
Duval County $1,532 $89,400
McMullen County $1,940 $97,100
Jim Wells County $2,446 $123,600
Bee County $2,674 $111,300
Atascosa County $2,767 $174,800
Karnes County $2,951 $149,000
San Patricio County $3,388 $192,400

Buying land here: the Texas rules

Ten acres can skip the septic permit, and land sold for taxes can be taken back for two years.

Each links to the Texas guide, where every fact cites the statute or agency page it came from.

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