What are property sizes in urban compared to rural homes?

Question

In general. Consider two urban areas of differing population and two rural areas of differing population.

Or just consider rural vs. urban.

I'm sorry this isn't more specific, but I'm looking for a generalized answer.

Answer 1

I would guess you are looking for average sizes of rural lots versus urban lots.  Urban will be easier so I will start with that.  You can own a place that is not on the first floor of a building and thus your lot will actually be 0, in most states you are treated the same as a ungrounded trailer that is renting it's spot in a trailer park.  But when you are on the first floor or own the whole freaking building, you would have the area taken up by the footprint of the building and any undeveloped adjacent land.  This could be like 500 square feet (quite a small dwelling to say 1 city block (which is roughly 1/10 mile on each side) for 278,784 square feet.

Now in the rural location you can still have the 0 square feet with ungrounded trailers and what not (or even multi-story multi-resident  buildings).  You can also have the small parcel of land that is only the foot print of the building or even less with parts of fields being sold over the years (in my town there are deeded properties of 5 square feet, really part of a larger land but with X selling land to Y and Y selling part of the land along with some of his older land to Z, etc. it became that small).  But most plots of land are 1/2 acre to say 200 acres for a farm (which becomes 21,780 sq ft to 8,712,000 sq ft).

I hope that is what you wanted.