this united states may have been made for you and me, but america's diamond deserts and redwood forests could net a sizable amount of cash if we ever decided to sell it, according to a new study all the land in the lower 48 states was worth a combined $23trillion in 2009,  combination of tax and real estate data in a paper published by the commerce department as revealed researchers estimated that land in the country, minus all the buildings, roads and trees on top of it, achieved its peak value of $262 trillion in in 2006 before sliding down three trillion dollars in three years a map of the us by county shows areas with land values from $73,000 to $335million per acre in dark blue and land less than $2,000 per acre in white the entire country is worth $23trillion, according to new study  prices may have rebounded since the end of the economic recession, but the study from william larson paints the widest ever picture of how much the ground beneath our feet is actually worth the research used land prices combined with census data to tabulate values for all of the federal, agricultural and developed land in the country, excluding alaska, hawaii and bodies of water washington dc had the greatest land value, with a staggering $1,050,000 per acre it was followed by new jersey, where the average acre cost of $196,000 led a foursome of smaller northeastern states with acre values above $100,000 with rhode island's $133,730, connecticut's $128,820 and massachusetts $102,210 land in washington dc had the highest price  in the entire country, with land costing more than $1million per acre  northeastern states including new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts all have per acre values above $100,000 above, a home in cape may, new jersey  california was the most valuable state overall at $39trillion while vermont was worth only $44billion wyoming, with $1,560 per acre, is the cheapest place in the country to buy land, followed by new mexico at $1,930 and nevada at $2,120, according to the wall street journal land in large urban areas was the most valuable, with cities of more than 1million people worth $64,844 per acre despite only being 58 per cent of the country's 189billion acres, developed land had a slim majority of the country's value besides washington dc, new jersey and rhode island had the highest percentages of developed land, both more than 30 per cent wyoming, which like many western states is majority owned by the federal government, had the lowest per acre price at $1,560 above, the high plains desert in wyoming  the federal government, the largest landowner in the us and the fourth largest in the world, owns 24 per cent of the country and majorities of six states including california, nevada and oregon however, the land is almost entirely undeveloped and is only worth $18trillion, which is about 10 percent of the federal debt the government owns almost none of connecticut, just 01 per cent true to its reputation for having golden waves of grain, forty seven per cent of the land in the us is farmland, with the highest state percentage for agriculture being nebraska's 927 per cent mr larson estimated that his figures were within a 10 per cent margin of error he said he did the study because 'despite its fundamental role in nearly all economic activity, there is no current and complete estimate of the value of the land area of the united states' alabama  alaska  arizona  arkansas  california  colorado  connecticut  delaware  florida  georgia  hawaii  idaho  illinois  indiana  iowa  kansas  kentucky  louisiana  maine  maryland  massachusetts  michigan  minnesota  mississippi  missouri  montana  nebraska  nevada  new hampshire  new jersey  new mexico  new york  north carolina  north dakota  ohio  oklahoma  oregon  pennsylvania  rhode island  south carolina  south dakota  tennessee  texas  utah  vermont  virginia  washington  west virginia  wisconsin  wyoming  $12,355  n/a  $4,328  $6,739  $39,091  $6,462  $128,824  $57,692  $28,961  $14,241  n/a  $3,434  $23,491  $16,902  $6,589  $4,220  $7,208  $12,908  $6,142  $75,429  $102,214  $23,765  $8,190  $5,564  $7,232  $2,282  $2,935  $2,115  $19,839  $196,409  $1,931  $41,314  $16,230  $2,517  $32,076  $7,363  $6,502  $31,923  $133,729  $17,610  $2,135  $14,411  $7,542  $4,663  $7,438  $21,921  $16,751  $10,536  $9,924  $1,557 
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