What has an acre cost over time?

• Farm real estate includes farm buildings and dwellings. It is not a benchmark for unimproved vacant land alone.
• Values are statewide or national agricultural survey estimates, not asking prices, closed-sale comparables, parcel appraisals or an automated valuation model.
• All dollars are nominal. Historical changes do not remove inflation or differences in land quality, improvements, access, rights, use or location.
• Alaska and Hawaii are excluded from these land-value state tables and from the national aggregate.
• Earlier reports group some Northeast states as Other States. Individual values for those states are null; a group average is never assigned to each state. (D) values are also null and are explicitly labeled withheld.
• Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah estimates exclude American Indian Reservation land.
• Survey methods and reporting coverage changed over this history. The 2021 report describes the June Area Survey; the 2026 report describes the Agricultural Land Values Survey collected April–June. Interpret changes with the source vintage and methodology.
• National and regional agricultural estimates use acreage-based weighting; the national number is not the simple mean of the displayed states.
• The most recent annual estimates may be revised in later USDA publications. This is a dated source snapshot, not a live Quick Stats connection.

2010–2013 use the 2014 final-estimates bulletin; 2014–2018 use the 2019 final-estimates bulletin; 2019 uses the current Quick Stats final estimates. 2020, 2021, and 2022–2026 use the 2024, 2025, and 2026 annual reports respectively. All extracted numeric report values were cross-checked against the 2026-10-01 Quick Stats economics download. Newer selected report suppression takes precedence over an earlier numeric publication.