Arkansas Land Ownership Statistics 2026
How much of Arkansas is vacant land, how many of its property owners live away from what they own, and which counties stand out — counted from Arkansas GIS Office parcel records for 8 counties (2026-07 AGIO).
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Key statistics
217,543
Arkansas has 217,543 parcels on record across the 8 counties with published parcel rolls.
Scope: 8 counties with published parcel rolls.
61%
133,060 Arkansas parcels — 61% of all parcels — are vacant land with no building on them.
Scope: 8 counties with published parcel rolls.
35,096
Sharp County has the most vacant land parcels in Arkansas: 35,096, followed by Izard County (22,831) and Van Buren County (22,348).
Scope: 8 counties with published parcel rolls.
12.3 ac
In the typical Arkansas county, the median vacant parcel is 12.3 acres; county medians run from 5.4 to 39.9 acres.
Scope: 8 counties with published parcel rolls.
By county
8 counties, A to Z. Owner-location columns are blank where the county's records can't support the mailing-vs-parcel comparison.
| County | Parcels | Vacant parcels | Vacant % | Median vacant acres |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter County | 38,064 | 15,449 | 41% | 7.6 |
| Cleburne County | 31,006 | 13,957 | 45% | 5.4 |
| Fulton County | 11,019 | 8,368 | 76% | 39.9 |
| Izard County | 30,207 | 22,831 | 76% | 17.5 |
| Marion County | 13,309 | 6,751 | 51% | 17 |
| Sharp County | 46,299 | 35,096 | 76% | 14.6 |
| Stone County | 15,465 | 8,260 | 53% | 10 |
| Van Buren County | 32,174 | 22,348 | 69% | 10 |
How these numbers are counted
- Parcels are every record on the county's published parcel roll; vacant land is the county's own vacant land-use codes (no building value).
- Absentee means the owner's mailing address differs from the parcel's address; out-of-state means the mailing address is in another state. Both are shares of owners with a mailable address, and are omitted for counties whose parcel addresses can't support the comparison.
- Counts are deduplicated by owner and mailing address where the source allows it. Figures change when a county publishes a new roll.
- Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Cite as: Land Lead Directory, "Arkansas Land Ownership Statistics 2026", Arkansas GIS Office (2026-07 AGIO). https://landleaddirectory.com/statistics/arkansas
- The same county files for every state we cover are also on Kaggle, Hugging Face and GitHub.