Cochise, Mohave and Santa Cruz counties have the cheapest small acreage in Arizona. For parcels between 1 and 10 acres, the median sale was $7,397 an acre in Cochise, $7,944 in Mohave and $10,995 in Santa Cruz, against $52,215 in Pinal and $122,137 in Maricopa. Measured by what the whole parcel cost, Mohave is first at a median $15,500, then Santa Cruz at $19,000 and Apache at $26,500.
Those numbers come from 39,381 recorded sales of vacant land between October 2024 and August 2026, with every house and manufactured home removed. They are sale prices, not asking prices, so they tell you what buyers actually paid.
Cheapest counties for 1 to 10 acres
Every county with at least 25 sales in the band is below. "Lowest tenth" is the price at the 10th percentile: one parcel in ten sold for that or less.
| County |
Sales |
Median $/acre |
Lowest tenth $/acre |
Median parcel |
Lowest tenth parcel |
Sales under $10,000 (any size) |
| Cochise |
377 |
$7,397 |
$1,800 |
$34,900 |
$8,000 |
114 |
| Mohave |
2,857 |
$7,944 |
$2,300 |
$15,500 |
$4,995 |
1,288 |
| Santa Cruz |
229 |
$10,995 |
$2,747 |
$19,000 |
$5,000 |
129 |
| Apache |
855 |
$12,150 |
$3,143 |
$26,500 |
$7,199 |
265 |
| Coconino |
1,011 |
$26,733 |
$5,895 |
$62,000 |
$9,000 |
136 |
| Navajo |
631 |
$29,557 |
$3,178 |
$70,000 |
$9,000 |
150 |
| Graham |
72 |
$31,987 |
$5,236 |
$67,000 |
$12,500 |
21 |
| La Paz |
138 |
$38,990 |
$4,329 |
$70,000 |
$14,000 |
25 |
| Yavapai |
1,836 |
$51,986 |
$9,286 |
$144,995 |
$27,000 |
148 |
| Pinal |
1,752 |
$52,215 |
$12,498 |
$120,000 |
$34,000 |
292 |
| Yuma |
200 |
$65,911 |
$7,389 |
$147,450 |
$14,000 |
18 |
| Pima |
1,148 |
$69,275 |
$9,398 |
$165,000 |
$24,000 |
46 |
| Gila |
297 |
$116,368 |
$32,005 |
$185,000 |
$73,000 |
3 |
| Maricopa |
2,813 |
$122,137 |
$17,391 |
$234,900 |
$37,500 |
26 |
The price per acre and the price per parcel give different rankings because parcels are different sizes. Cochise looks cheapest per acre because its typical sale in this band is about 4.2 acres. Mohave is cheapest per parcel because its typical sale in this band is about two acres. If your budget is a number of dollars rather than a number of acres, Mohave is where the floor is.
The under-$10,000 club is mostly Mohave
Of the 2,662 vacant parcels that sold for under $10,000 in this period, 1,288 were in Mohave County. That is 48 percent of the state's sub-$10,000 sales, and it is 21.5 percent of everything that sold in Mohave. The median size of those Mohave parcels was 1.15 acres. Pinal comes second with 292 and Apache third with 265, but both are large markets where $10,000 is a small slice. If you want a lot under $10,000, our Mohave County listings are the natural place to start, and the Navajo County page is the other end of the White Mountains price range, where the median 1-10 acre parcel is $70,000 but one in ten still sold for $9,000 or less.
Cheapest towns, not just counties
A county median hides the pockets. These are the towns with the lowest median price among those with at least 25 sales of 1 to 10 acres:
- Sanders (Apache): 29 sales, median $4,500 for about an acre
- Yucca (Mohave): 199 sales, median $8,000, about 2.3 acres
- Seligman (Yavapai): 151 sales, median $8,051, about 2 acres
- Meadview (Mohave): 309 sales, median $9,500, about 1.15 acres
- Pearce (Cochise): 37 sales, median $9,700, about 3.6 acres
- Rio Rico (Santa Cruz): 131 sales, median $10,000, about 1.6 acres
Per acre, Sanders is cheapest at $2,736, then Pearce at $3,505, Seligman at $4,000 and Yucca at $4,389. Bisbee and Douglas, both in Cochise County, follow at about $4,800 an acre.
Why cheap land is cheap
You would guess flood washes and missing roads. The data says the first guess is half wrong. We compared 1 to 10 acre lots that sold under $10,000 with those that sold for more, using the features mentioned in each listing's description.
The cheap lots are missing the services. Only 1.7 percent of the under-$10,000 listings mention power at the lot, against 6.9 percent of the rest. Wells are mentioned in 0.3 percent against 7.4 percent, city water in 0.5 percent against 4.3 percent, and paved access in 2.1 percent against 7.4 percent. A lot with none of those is the cheap lot.
Flooding is not the story. Among parcels with enrichment data, 20.1 percent of the under-$10,000 lots have a quarter or more of their area in a flood zone, compared with 32.5 percent of the more expensive lots. Legal access is closer: 22.6 percent of the cheap lots are flagged landlocked against 19.1 percent of the rest. A small gap, but it is the one you pay for later, because a landlocked parcel cannot be built on and is hard to resell. The full list of what moves a price is in what makes Arizona land worth more.
What to check before you buy a cheap lot
Cheap is only cheap if the lot is usable for what you want. Four things take about an hour and cost nothing:
- Ask the county assessor for the parcel and confirm the acreage matches the listing.
- Look at legal access on the title commitment, not just the road you drove in on.
- Call the electric provider and ask for a written estimate of what bringing service to that lot costs. The cost depends on the distance to the nearest line and on the provider's own rules, so we do not put a number on it.
- Check taxes. Read the tax bill, and know that a delinquent tax lien comes with the lot.
If you are weighing a lot you already own against these numbers, the land value lookup gives a range for a specific parcel. For the lots we currently list at low prices, with the road, water and power facts stated or marked "not verified," see our cheap land page. The statewide size-band table is on the price per acre page.
How to read this table without fooling yourself
These are medians of closed sales, so a few giant outliers do not move them. They include small lots inside towns, which pull the median toward the town price. The 1-to-10 acre band is the one most people mean by "land," but parcels of 10 acres and up price very differently, and the page above has them. Counties with fewer than 25 sales in the band are left out rather than guessed at; Greenlee had 10.