Average Farm Size and Assests: 2002


County	Farms (number)	Land in farms (acres)	Average size of farm (acres)	Median size of farm (acres)	Average estimated market value of land and buildings per farm (dollars)	Average estimated market value of land and buildings per acre (dollars)	Average estimated market value of all machinery and equipment per farm (dollars)

Pennsylvania	58,105	7,745,336	133	90	452,874	3,419	59,995

Adams	1,261	181,081	144	78	594,491	3,781	74,562
Allegheny	464	33,788	73	33	364,958	4,763	38,100
Armstrong	739	130,637	177	125	429,378	2,333	60,428
Beaver	645	62,801	97	75	267,155	2,976	37,071
Bedford	1,093	192,811	176	134	373,068	1,980	51,997
Berks	1,791	215,679	120	73	661,305	5,527	63,509
Blair	504	85,687	170	108	512,958	3,126	79,549
Bradford	1,495	302,475	202	172	351,386	1,790	63,670
Bucks	917	76,831	84	27	768,909	9,418	61,622
Butler	1,174	143,985	123	82	491,784	3,950	56,795
Cambria	634	87,997	139	91	421,590	2,687	48,999
Cameron	35	4,254	122	95	228,370	1,878	28,678
Carbon	206	19,257	93	67	419,182	4,436	46,452
Centre	1,213	165,234	136	100	447,167	3,400	47,969
Chester	1,918	168,165	88	46	889,836	10,358	53,782
Clarion	591	108,860	184	131	364,272	1,837	62,906
Clearfield	468	60,961	130	96	190,830	1,650	28,376
Clinton	420	53,166	127	91	340,487	2,804	48,436
Columbia	884	123,514	140	86	448,782	3,137	80,984
Crawford	1,416	221,774	157	114	288,743	1,738	67,748
Cumberland	1,116	143,159	128	97	484,967	3,826	64,693
Dauphin	852	94,983	111	70	556,467	5,291	48,991
Delaware	76	(D)	(D)	(D)	764,965	22,852	30,887
Elk	226	22,167	98	68	346,849	3,104	55,219
Erie	1,283	166,130	129	83	299,506	2,320	72,463
Fayette	978	125,034	128	89	268,741	1,844	53,543
Forest	59	5,679	96	75	196,661	2,008	27,019
Franklin	1,418	244,751	173	135	641,792	3,879	82,598
Fulton	561	100,575	179	148	414,929	2,318	84,981
Greene	881	141,684	161	130	152,750	1,184	33,740
Huntingdon	848	143,048	169	127	456,492	2,436	55,752
Indiana	903	157,286	174	105	315,708	1,879	63,115
Jefferson	548	86,899	159	122	359,097	1,856	56,218
Juniata	644	86,203	134	101	369,626	3,059	62,032
Lackawanna	289	32,931	114	89	333,285	3,205	65,040
Lancaster	5,293	411,848	78	61	610,359	7,955	68,923
Lawrence	703	86,987	124	93	308,650	2,441	145,126
Lebanon	1,104	125,066	113	89	592,004	5,349	74,969
Lehigh	618	91,304	148	43	610,357	4,504	79,161
Luzerne	548	73,216	134	80	551,229	3,541	50,259
Lycoming	1,323	177,347	134	102	315,040	2,318	48,714
McKean	265	41,634	157	114	195,407	1,179	34,523
Mercer	1,239	164,306	133	99	256,427	2,070	46,184
Mifflin	752	90,486	120	94	381,165	3,189	51,401
Monroe	324	32,938	102	50	567,011	5,191	48,045
Montgomery	729	48,327	66	30	698,038	12,748	50,921
Montour	304	39,964	131	102	385,870	2,996	60,460
Northampton	487	77,556	159	58	720,687	4,862	89,116
Northumberland	719	119,129	166	84	494,522	3,099	62,032
Perry	752	129,092	172	128	473,540	3,203	57,438
Philadelphia	9	(D)	(D)	(D)	629,052	26,090	16,482
Pike	51	10,113	198	73	506,258	2,878	43,009
Potter	343	94,396	275	185	427,674	1,678	64,651
Schuylkill	838	110,946	132	73	398,309	3,383	63,602
Snyder	784	100,034	128	90	426,932	3,558	118,461
Somerset	1,194	223,323	187	144	359,375	1,895	59,206
Sullivan	170	31,096	183	144	285,700	1,878	49,082
Susquehanna	1,116	189,287	170	150	355,776	2,162	55,679
Tioga	973	200,041	206	160	454,735	2,328	52,561
Union	521	69,424	133	99	498,509	4,156	68,947
Venango	473	64,528	136	100	188,302	1,489	29,244
Warren	499	78,088	156	114	224,296	1,287	48,377
Washington	2,506	261,139	104	87	229,196	2,095	35,303
Wayne	661	113,167	171	145	356,704	2,111	49,847
Westmoreland	1,353	150,967	112	84	314,444	2,814	45,928
Wyoming	358	61,846	173	143	357,773	2,276	57,735
York	2,546	285,336	112	45	542,750	4,805	51,153

Footnotes:

Released February 3, 2004, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture. If you have any questions about the census of agriculture, please call the NASS at 800-727-9540.

Preliminary Report

Average Farm Size and Assests: 2002

Issued February 2004 by National Agricultural Statistical Services

Prepared by Pennsylvania State Data Center