The amount of foreign-owned land in each county differs dramatically across Alabama.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the foreign entities with the most land in Alabama are affiliated with the Netherlands, Canada, Ireland, Denmark and Luxembourg.
Recent data from the USDA shows that foreign entities own about 2.2 million acres in Alabama.
The following is a list of counties in Alabama, ranked from the highest percentage of land owned by foreign entities to the lowest:
- Butler County (54%)
- Lowndes County (25%)
- Crenshaw County (22%)
- Conecuh County (21%)
- Marion County (21%)
- Monroe County (19%)
- Coosa County (19%)
- Bullock County (17%)
- Washington County (16%)
- Autauga County (15%)
- Franklin County (14%)
- Bibb County (13%)
- Winston County (12%)
- Escambia County (11%)
- Chilton County (10%)
- Baldwin County (10%)
- Perry County (10%)
- Pike County (8%)
- Cleburne County (7%)
- Covington County (7%)
- Tallapoosa County (7%)
- Choctaw County (6%)
- Wilcox County (6%)
- Talladega County (6%)
- Randolph County (5%)
- Clay County (4%)
- Walker County (4%)
- Jackson County (4%)
- Colbert County (4%)
- Mobile County (4%)
- Cherokee County (4%)
- Elmore County (4%)
- Dallas County (4%)
- Marengo County (4%)
- Macon County (4%)
- Hale County (4%)
- Jefferson County (3%)
- Fayette County (3%)
- Coffee County (3%)
- St. Clair County (2%)
- Calhoun County (2%)
- Lawrence County (2%)
- Shelby County (2%)
- Barbour County (2%)
- Clarke County (2%)
- Lamar County (1%)
- Lauderdale County (1%)
- Henry County (1%)
- Limestone County (1%)
- Sumter County (1%)
- Geneva County (1%)
- Montgomery County (1%)
- Dale County (1%)
- Madison County (1%)
- Greene County (.8%)
- Etowah County (.5%)
- Morgan County (.3%)
- Russell County (.3%)
- Houston County (.3%)
- Chambers County (.1%)
- Marshall County (.1%)
- DeKalb County (.06%)
- Pickens County (.06%)
- Cullman County (.04%)
- Lee County (.04%)
- Tuscaloosa County (.03%)
- Blount County (0%)
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