The short version
Across 68 recorded sales of 10 to 100 acres in Randolph County from January 2025 to August 2026, the median price per acre was $11,610 for 10 to 25 acres, $6,662 for 25 to 50 acres, and $4,230 for 50 to 100 acres. Bigger tracts sold for less per acre. And the county approved every rezoning of 10 acres or more whose outcome was recorded.
Why I looked
When an owner asks me what their land is worth, I start with what land like it actually sold for. Not asking prices, and not what a letter in the mail said: what someone paid, recorded at the courthouse. Randolph County is where a lot of those questions are coming from right now, so here is what its records show.
What I counted
Every recorded sale of 10 to 100 acres in Randolph County from January 2025 to August 2026: 68 sales in all. The prices come from the excise tax stamps on each deed at the Register of Deeds. A tax is paid when a deed is recorded, and the amount tells you roughly what the buyer paid.
| Tract size | Sales | Middle half, per acre | Median, per acre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 to 25 acres | 24 | $8,211 to $33,835 | $11,610 |
| 25 to 50 acres | 17 | $5,012 to $10,000 | $6,662 |
| 50 to 100 acres | 27 | $2,616 to $7,947 | $4,230 |
The middle half means the cheapest quarter and the most expensive quarter of the sales are set aside; half of all the sales fell between those two numbers. The median is the sale in the middle: half sold for more per acre, half for less.
Bigger tracts sold for less per acre
The median for 10 to 25 acres was $11,610 an acre. For 50 to 100 acres it was $4,230. That is common with land. Fewer buyers can take on a big tract at once, and a smaller tract can be bought by a family who wants room for a home, not just by a builder.
Notice how wide the 10 to 25 acre range is: $8,211 to $33,835 an acre for the middle half. Some of those sales likely included a house or other buildings, and a deed’s stamps don’t separate the land from what stands on it. Road frontage, water and sewer, and how much of the land is usable move the number too.
What the rezoning record shows
I also read the county’s meeting minutes from 2022 to 2026. Of 148 rezoning cases, 92 were approved, 4 were denied, and for 52 the minutes don’t record an outcome.
For tracts of 10 acres or more where the outcome was recorded, 31 of 31 were approved. That doesn’t mean every request will pass, and a rezoning isn’t the same as approval to build a neighborhood. But it says the county has not been standing in the way of larger tracts changing use.
The Toyota plant near Liberty
Toyota’s battery plant at the Greensboro Randolph Megasite near Liberty is the biggest thing happening in the county. Greensboro has said it will extend water and sewer near the megasite for industrial use.
Two honest points about that. First, a line built to serve industry doesn’t mean sewer is coming to your road; that is decided case by case. Second, new jobs nearby tend to bring people looking for homes, and builders looking for land. If you own land near Liberty or Asheboro, it’s worth knowing what it’s worth before you answer the first letter.
The honest caveats
- These are recorded sales, not appraisals, and not offers from anyone.
- Some of the sales may include houses or other buildings.
- Deed stamps give a close figure, not an exact one, and a deed doesn’t always show whether a sale was between relatives or had unusual terms.
- Each size group has between 17 and 27 sales. That is enough to see a pattern, not enough to price one tract.
- Your land isn’t a median. Its road, soils, sewer and zoning decide its worth.
Where to go from here
The same numbers, plus what drives value in Randolph and what we buy there, are on the Randolph County land page, updated every quarter.
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