The average price of an acre of land in Arizona depends mostly on how much land comes with the acre. Across recorded sales of half an acre and up over the last 24 months, an acre sold as part of a 40-acre-or-larger parcel went for a small fraction of what an acre brought as part of a 2-to-10-acre parcel, and the tables below give the sale count and the typical price range per acre for every size band and county. The spread is not a data error. Price per acre is mostly a function of how much land comes with the acre, and only after that a function of where it is.
This page is the table. Everything on it comes from actual closed sales, not asking prices, pulled from a database of Arizona vacant-land sales we maintain for our own buying. Parcels with a house or manufactured home on them are excluded. If you want to know what your own parcel is worth rather than the county average, start with the land value lookup, which uses the same data to price a specific parcel.
Why bigger parcels sell for less per acre
A subdivision lot comes with a paved road, a power line, a legal description that a title company has already insured a dozen times, and a county that has already said yes to a house. A 40-acre section of grazing land comes with none of that. When a buyer pays the median price for 40 acres, they are paying for the dirt and planning to spend more on everything else. When a buyer pays the median price for a parcel in the 2-to-10-acre band, which statewide is more money in total than the median 40-acre parcel, most of that price is the road, the power pole and the buildable zoning.
That is why "how much is 2 acres of land worth" and "how much is 40 acres worth" can leave the smaller parcel selling for more money in total in some counties. In Yavapai County the median 2-to-10-acre parcel sold for about twice as much as the median 40-plus parcel. The smaller parcel sold for more money, full stop.
Arizona land prices per acre by size band, statewide
| Parcel size | Sales | Typical price per acre | Time to sell |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 acres and up | 1519 | $670 – $3,440 | about 122 days |
| 10 to 40 acres | 3159 | $1,130 – $10,300 | about 114 days |
| 2 to 10 acres | 7547 | $7,450 – $74,300 | about 102 days |
| Under 2 acressmall in-town lots | 9499 | $25,600 – $328,000 | about 91 days |
Source: our own record of closed Arizona sales, last two years, middle half of prices in each size. Time to sell is shown only where the listing service recorded it for enough sales.
Price per acre by county
| County | 2 to 10 acres | 10 to 40 acres | 40 acres and up | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | $4,590 – $25,000418 sales | $700 – $2,500544 sales | $440 – $1,250280 sales | 1727 |
| Cochise | $2,660 – $11,300307 sales | $1,110 – $3,730225 sales | $510 – $1,72099 sales | 751 |
| Coconino | $11,000 – $162,000481 sales | $1,620 – $12,000295 sales | $990 – $3,75075 sales | 1532 |
| Gila | $35,000 – $185,000134 sales | $10,900 – $53,20033 sales | — | 491 |
| Graham | $22,100 – $48,30035 sales | $1,130 – $13,50038 sales | — | 142 |
| Greenlee | — | — | — | — |
| La Paz | $5,910 – $40,70077 sales | $1,200 – $6,99053 sales | $970 – $3,90030 sales | 243 |
| Maricopa | $23,000 – $172,0001222 sales | $5,240 – $50,400172 sales | $1,490 – $16,500100 sales | 3719 |
| Mohave | $2,980 – $10,8001535 sales | $950 – $4,000550 sales | $600 – $1,720340 sales | 3981 |
| Navajo | $6,660 – $56,100368 sales | $770 – $3,870264 sales | $590 – $1,270175 sales | 1300 |
| Pima | $16,700 – $90,600587 sales | $4,950 – $20,400102 sales | $2,020 – $7,15026 sales | 1562 |
| Pinal | $15,000 – $80,900705 sales | $6,020 – $24,700209 sales | $3,130 – $15,00090 sales | 1853 |
| Santa Cruz | $5,320 – $39,600100 sales | $4,930 – $15,00066 sales | — | 491 |
| Yavapai | $21,600 – $98,9001273 sales | $1,850 – $17,200509 sales | $930 – $2,730190 sales | 3021 |
| Yuma | $19,200 – $218,00086 sales | $6,000 – $55,00032 sales | $1,220 – $5,94029 sales | 316 |
Price per acre, middle half of closed sales in each size, from our own sales record over the last two years. A dash means too few sales in that size to give an honest range.
The cheapest and the most expensive acres in Arizona
The cheapest acreage in the state, by closed sales, is in Apache, Navajo, Mohave and Cochise counties, where 40-acre-plus parcels traded at the lowest per-acre prices in the state, as the county table above shows. These are the counties with the big 1960s and 1970s land-sale subdivisions: the ranchettes east of Holbrook, the sections around St. Johns and Concho, the Arizona Rancho lots south of Kingman, and the grassland between Willcox and Douglas. The volume is real, as the sale count under Apache County's 40-acres-and-up range shows, but so is the price. If you are shopping, our cheap land listings sit in exactly these places. If you own there, the Apache County and Cochise County seller pages explain what the market will and will not pay.
The most expensive rural acreage is in Pinal County, where 40-plus-acre parcels have the highest per-acre price of any county in the table above. That is farmland and future-subdivision ground between Casa Grande, Maricopa and Queen Creek, bought by growers and developers rather than by people who want a cabin. Pinal County owners holding 40 acres near a paved road have a product that nobody in Apache County has.
Asking price versus what actually sells
On the day this was written there were 29,562 vacant-land listings active in Arizona across Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com. The statewide table above shows what the 2-to-10-acre and 10-to-40-acre bands actually closed for over the previous two years, which is the number to hold an asking price against. Asking prices and closed prices are not the same parcels, so this is not a precise discount, but the pattern we see parcel by parcel is that rural listings start high, sit, and either cut or expire.
What it costs to hold the acre while you wait
The flip side of a cheap acre is a cheap tax bill, and the flip side of a high-priced acre in Pinal is a tax bill that adds up over an 18-month listing. Arizona assesses vacant land at 15 percent of full cash value under the Class 2 property classification, and the actual bill depends on the county and the taxing districts. Our guide to property taxes on vacant Arizona land walks through how to read your statement and what happens if it goes unpaid.
A note on who owns Arizona's land
Of the 502,163 vacant parcels in Arizona's county assessor rolls as of March 2026, 179,789, or 35.8 percent, have a tax bill mailed to an address outside Arizona. California addresses account for 45,614 of them, Nevada 20,276, Texas 9,938. In Mohave County it is 59 percent. That matters for prices because an absentee owner in Sacramento who inherited 40 acres near Yucca is not a patient seller, and a lot of the low per-acre sales in the table above are that owner deciding the land is not worth another year of tax bills.
How to use these numbers
Find your county and your size band. That range is where the middle half of parcels like yours closed. Then adjust: legal road access, power at the lot line and clean title push a parcel toward the top of the range or past it; no access, no utilities and a tax lien push it well below. If you want us to do that adjustment for your parcel, the land value lookup is free and does not commit you to anything.