North Carolina Ranks Among The Top States The Biggest Yards in America

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Where can you be a city dweller in a house with a nice big yard in America?

With mortgage interest rates decreasing  — aka more financial bandwidth to buy a bigger property — the website LawnStarter ranked 2024’s Cities With the Biggest Yards.

They compared the 2,000 biggest U.S. cities based on the average yard sizes of single-family homes from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

North Carolina and Texas tied with the most cities — 15 each — in the top 150. Most cities in other Southern states like Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee finished in the top half of our ranking.

Explore some of our Tar Heel highlights and lowlights below.

North Carolina Cities With the Biggest and Smallest Yards
Rank City Average Yard Acreage
11 Rocky Mount 0.776 acres
284 Fayetteville 0.42 acres
300 Asheville 0.412 acres
399 Winston-Salem 0.37 acres
592 Greensboro 0.315 acres
602 Durham 0.313 acres
666 Wilmington 0.3 acres
702 Raleigh 0.292 acres
722 Charlotte 0.289 acres
1,015 Cary 0.243 acres