16,562 buildable parcels covering about 344,336 acres, every one with slope, flood, soil, access, ownership and an AI verdict on file. These are the county-wide numbers.
| Parcel size | Parcels | Median appraised land value per acre |
|---|---|---|
| Under 5 acres | 8,776 | $10,552 |
| 5 to 20 acres | 4,078 | $5,055 |
| 20 to 50 acres | 2,048 | $2,167 |
| 50 to 100 acres | 802 | $1,883 |
| 100 acres and up | 715 | $1,467 |
By deal type: 5,396 rural homesite (582 strong buy), 1,567 timber/recreation tract (170 strong buy), 1,562 infill lot (217 strong buy), 1,028 development assembly (335 strong buy), 650 not a market parcel, 542 commercial pad (33 strong buy).
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20,437 parcels carry no improvement value on the Jefferson County tax roll as of 2026-10-01. After removing rights-of-way, slivers, utility strips and parcels that already have a structure by the federal building footprints, 16,562 are buildable land totalling about 344,336 acres.
8% of buildable parcels touch a FEMA special flood hazard area (zones A, AE or similar). 92% are entirely in Zone X, the minimal-risk designation. Mapped wetlands appear on 3%.
Septic needs a county health department permit and a soil evaluation on the actual site. As a screen, 99% of buildable parcels sit on soils the USDA survey classes as well drained or better. 2% sit in soil map units that are mostly hydric, which usually fail.
Alabama records sale prices with the deed, but there is no searchable database of them. The county's appraised land value per acre, which is what LandScout shows, has a median of $5,055 for 5 to 20 acre tracts and $1,467 for tracts over 100 acres. Market prices run higher; appraisal is a floor and a comparison tool, not an asking price.
68% individual, 19% llc, 10% corporation, 2% government. 25% of owners have a mailing address outside the county. — of parcels have not changed hands in over twenty years.
Parcel boundaries, owners of record and appraised values are from the Jefferson County assessor's GIS. Flood zones are FEMA, slope is derived from USGS elevation, soils are the USDA soil survey, wetlands the National Wetlands Inventory, timber the Forest Service FIA, structures the FEMA USA Structures dataset, and roads, power lines, ponds and developed land OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Verdicts are written by an AI model from those fields. Data as of 2026-10-01.
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