House & Home - 2025's Smallest Yards

 

Love is in the air — but is it in your yard? To mark Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) and show love to cities where outdoor space is in short supply, LawnStarter ranked 2025's Lawn-Liest Cities in America. We compared the 2,000 biggest U.S. cities based on the average yard sizes of single-family homes from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. See the 10 cities with the smallest (and 10 with the biggest) yards below, followed by key takeaways. (Don’t see your city below? Check out the full ranking.)

Cities With the Smallest Yards Rank City 1 Hoboken, NJ 2 Union City, NJ 3 San Francisco, CA 4 (TIE) West New York, NJ 4 (TIE) Camden, NJ 6 7 8 9 10 Philadelphia, PA Boston, MA New York, NY Atlantic City, NJ Bayonne, NJ Cities With the Biggest Yards Rank City 1 Camey, MD 2 Linton Hall, VA 3 Mequon, WI 4 Caledonia, WI 5 Fallbrook, CA 6 7 8 9 10 Derry, NH Nacogdoches, TX Weatherford, TX Barnstable Town, MA The Acreage, FL

Key Insights: Love may be grand, but yards in big cities are anything but. New York (No. 8) and San Francisco (No. 3) top our ranking with some of the tiniest plots. Meanwhile, small-city charm comes with space to spare, with each of our bottom 10 cities boasting populations under 50,000.  California and New Jersey might be breaking the hearts of gardeners when it comes to yard size. With 17 Garden State Cities and 10 from the Golden State landing in the top 150, finding space to plant love — or even a rose bush — could be a challenge. The top 97 cities have an average yard size of less than 0.1 acres. If space is your love language, head to the bottom of our ranking. Carney, MD, (No. 2,000) and Linton Hall, VA, (No. 1,999) stand alone as the only cities with yards averaging over 1 acre. Room to Roam in the South: If you’re looking for a spacious yard, Texas and North Carolina are the places to be. Both states had 15 cities land in the bottom 150 of our ranking — meaning bigger yards and plenty of space to spread out.     Read the full story here: https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/studies/cities-with-smallest-yards/ Other helpful links: Methodology   Please email media@lawnstarter.com with any questions you have about our study or if you would like to interview one of our editors. Too busy wooing to worry about lawn care – in your small or big yard? Hire a local LawnStarter pro to handle the heavy lifting while you focus on creating a backyard you love. More from LawnStarter:  Leading Cities for Quality of Life Dirtiest Cities in America Counties Going Bald Best Cities for Composting + U.S. Survey Best Cities for Urban Gardening