Land prices per acre, parish by parish.

The short answer

There is no single "price per acre" for a parish — but real closings put honest brackets around it. Across our own 2024–26 sales, smaller rural parcels (roughly 1–15 acres) have closed anywhere from about $5,300 to over $18,000 per acre depending on the parish, the parcel, and the buyer pool — and small homesite parcels near strong markets can go well beyond that.

The figures below are from parcels Driftless Land Co. actually bought and sold — recorded, closed transactions, not listings or estimates. Sample sizes are small, because that's the truth of rural land: a parish might see a handful of genuinely comparable sales a year. Use these as brackets, not appraisals — and for what your specific parcel is worth, comps for your parcel are the only real answer.

The data

What parcels have actually brought — our closings, 2024–26.

Every figure below is a real closed sale of ours: the amount the parcel brought at closing, divided by its acreage. No listings, no automated estimates, no adjustments. Where we only have one or two sales, we say so — a small honest sample beats a big invented one.

Two things jump out of this table, and they’re the two most useful things to know about land pricing anywhere.

Location swings price far more than acreage does. St. Martin Parish parcels of the same size as Washington Parish parcels brought roughly double per acre. The 1.5-acre St. Tammany homesite parcel brought four times the per-acre price of timber acreage one parish north. Same state, same year — different buyer pools.

Within one county, character swings it again. Jackson County’s spread — $5,300 to $18,700 per acre — isn’t noise. The low end was a larger rural parcel; the high end, small parcels near development. An “average” of those numbers would describe no parcel that actually exists, which is why we publish ranges.

Reading the brackets

How to use these numbers for your own parcel.

Start with the bracket for your parish — or the nearest one here — and then be honest about where your parcel sits inside it. The questions that move a parcel toward the top or bottom of its bracket are the same everywhere: legal access and road frontage, flood zone, standing timber, utilities, and whether the title is current. What is my land worth? walks through each one in plain language.

Two cautions. These are small-parcel figures — larger tracts (40+ acres) trade meaningfully lower per acre, everywhere we work. And these are retail figures — what a parcel brings after the title work is done and the right buyer is found. A direct cash offer, from us or anyone, sits below retail; the difference is the cost of certainty, and how buyers of every kind arrive at their numbers is worth understanding before you weigh one.

We update this page as new closings record. If your parish isn’t here and you want a real read on your parcel — from recorded sales, with the comps shown — ask us. It costs nothing, and it’s yours to use whether or not you ever sell to us.

Questions & answers

Asked by nearly every family we work with.

Why do smaller parcels sell for more per acre?

A bigger pool of buyers can afford them. A $40,000 five-acre parcel has many possible buyers; a $400,000 hundred-acre tract has few. Large-tract prices per acre run meaningfully lower than small-parcel prices in the same parish.

Where do these numbers come from?

From our own closings — what parcels actually brought at the closing table, divided by their acreage. Not asking prices, not tax values, not automated estimates. The trade-off is small sample sizes, which is why we show ranges and years rather than a false-precision average.

My parish isn't listed. What's land worth there?

The honest answer is recorded sales in your parish — and we're glad to pull what we can see for your specific parcel and share it, whether or not you sell to us. The factors in our land-value guide travel to every parish: access, size, flood zone, timber, title.

Would you pay these prices for my land?

These are retail sale figures — what parcels brought after we'd done the title work, access checks, and marketing. A direct offer from us sits below retail; that gap is the cost of speed, certainty, and zero fees, and we show the comps behind every offer so you can weigh it.

Sources & method: Driftless Land Co. closed transactions, 2024–2026 — per-acre figures are amounts received at closing divided by deeded acreage, rounded. Small samples; ranges shown rather than averages. General information, not an appraisal. Published August 2026 · Updated August 2026.