# Counties in Iowa by land in farms, 2022

All 99 values come from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `farmland_area`
- Unit: acres
- Definition: Land operated by farms in the census year, in acres, including cropland, pasture, woodland and land under farm buildings, as counted by the USDA Census of Agriculture every five years.
- Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022) (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/usda-nass
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/land-in-farms/iowa-counties

| Rank | Place | acres |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Kossuth County | 584,543 |
| 2 | Pottawattamie County | 563,574 |
| 3 | Plymouth County | 544,068 |
| 4 | Sioux County | 485,793 |
| 5 | Woodbury County | 468,824 |
| 6 | Jasper County | 439,310 |
| 7 | Crawford County | 439,226 |
| 8 | Clayton County | 430,213 |
| 9 | Fayette County | 429,271 |
| 10 | Monona County | 406,263 |
| 11 | Benton County | 377,259 |
| 12 | Harrison County | 374,383 |
| 13 | Winneshiek County | 373,151 |
| 14 | Wright County | 369,835 |
| 15 | Hamilton County | 367,576 |
| 16 | Cedar County | 366,548 |
| 17 | Buchanan County | 361,693 |
| 18 | Palo Alto County | 360,741 |
| 19 | Tama County | 360,619 |
| 20 | Webster County | 356,141 |
| 21 | Clinton County | 352,926 |
| 22 | Adair County | 348,125 |
| 23 | Delaware County | 345,856 |
| 24 | Sac County | 344,405 |
| 25 | Carroll County | 343,933 |
| 26 | Iowa County | 342,212 |
| 27 | Shelby County | 339,793 |
| 28 | Linn County | 338,977 |
| 29 | Hancock County | 337,777 |
| 30 | Cerro Gordo County | 336,756 |
| 31 | Franklin County | 334,656 |
| 32 | Marshall County | 333,581 |
| 33 | Boone County | 333,540 |
| 34 | Hardin County | 333,515 |
| 35 | Butler County | 327,856 |
| 36 | Cherokee County | 327,342 |
| 37 | Guthrie County | 324,037 |
| 38 | Buena Vista County | 322,399 |
| 39 | Wayne County | 321,812 |
| 40 | Grundy County | 320,623 |
| 41 | Jones County | 319,791 |
| 42 | Greene County | 318,483 |
| 43 | Dubuque County | 317,983 |
| 44 | Pocahontas County | 316,323 |
| 45 | Lyon County | 315,316 |
| 46 | Madison County | 311,851 |
| 47 | Ringgold County | 311,401 |
| 48 | Clay County | 306,922 |
| 49 | Calhoun County | 306,722 |
| 50 | Mahaska County | 304,832 |
| 51 | Allamakee County | 304,451 |
| 52 | Floyd County | 301,797 |
| 53 | Cass County | 300,521 |
| 54 | Story County | 299,244 |
| 55 | Washington County | 298,992 |
| 56 | Howard County | 296,769 |
| 57 | Taylor County | 296,690 |
| 58 | Warren County | 296,409 |
| 59 | Jackson County | 292,239 |
| 60 | Page County | 291,963 |
| 61 | Black Hawk County | 290,438 |
| 62 | Poweshiek County | 288,668 |
| 63 | Dallas County | 287,842 |
| 64 | Keokuk County | 277,478 |
| 65 | Chickasaw County | 273,833 |
| 66 | O'Brien County | 268,038 |
| 67 | Fremont County | 264,206 |
| 68 | Johnson County | 259,760 |
| 69 | Audubon County | 256,116 |
| 70 | Mitchell County | 255,760 |
| 71 | Adams County | 248,630 |
| 72 | Marion County | 240,780 |
| 73 | Bremer County | 240,688 |
| 74 | Montgomery County | 237,768 |
| 75 | Henry County | 233,603 |
| 76 | Decatur County | 231,581 |
| 77 | Van Buren County | 225,161 |
| 78 | Lee County | 223,700 |
| 79 | Humboldt County | 223,283 |
| 80 | Emmet County | 216,211 |
| 81 | Union County | 214,527 |
| 82 | Davis County | 213,870 |
| 83 | Jefferson County | 211,552 |
| 84 | Mills County | 210,969 |
| 85 | Ida County | 210,663 |
| 86 | Appanoose County | 206,941 |
| 87 | Muscatine County | 201,753 |
| 88 | Scott County | 201,629 |
| 89 | Osceola County | 198,039 |
| 90 | Winnebago County | 197,720 |
| 91 | Monroe County | 197,145 |
| 92 | Wapello County | 195,594 |
| 93 | Louisa County | 188,748 |
| 94 | Polk County | 179,322 |
| 95 | Clarke County | 177,968 |
| 96 | Lucas County | 177,001 |
| 97 | Worth County | 162,856 |
| 98 | Dickinson County | 161,592 |
| 99 | Des Moines County | 148,881 |