Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Austria

Name: Austria — foreign-held US agricultural land
Creator: AI Analytics
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Investors attributed to Austria reported holding 234K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.5% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 257 holdings.

Acres (2024): 233,945
Share of foreign-held: 0.5%
Holdings: 257
Held as ownership: 100%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Austria holdings grew from 174K acres in 2010 to 234K in 2024, peaking at 239K in 2021. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

Year	Reported acres
2024	233,945
2023	234,272
2022	234,892
2021	239,116
2020	238,956
2019	182,036
2018	182,036
2017	181,079
2016	180,992
2015	178,176
2014	178,301
2013	178,301
2012	176,501
2011	175,842
2010	174,428

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Georgia155,089 ac

Alabama23,101 ac

New York22,502 ac

Indiana8,577 ac

Colorado3,672 ac

Texas3,395 ac

Arkansas3,054 ac

Tennessee1,995 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest212K

Cropland14K

Pasture6K

Other agricultural2K

Non-agricultural627

Aggregated from the USDA FSA AFIDA detailed holdings files (public domain) — see the full dataset, methodology, and the register's documented defects at Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland. Country is the reported first-tier investor, not a verified ultimate parent. Aggregate-level only; no record-level owner names. Keyless JSON for all countries: /foreign-farmland/index.json. CC0.