There might be more home value packed into Chester County’s neighbors to the east, but it’s just that: packed. Chester County homeowners enjoy the luxuries of both stretching out on their land and possessing valuable properties.

“Land is a finite resource. America sits on 3.5 million square miles (9.1 million square kilometers), but some bits of it are used quite a bit more heavily than others,” the staff of The Economist wrote in a residential property value and density analysis.

Though there’s nearly as much or more home value overall and per square mile in Delaware ($51.3 billion or $278.9 million per mile), Montgomery ($94.1 billion or $195 million per mile) and Bucks ($73.9 billion or $122.2 million per mile) counties, the average house price and home value per person is highest in Chester County ($320,200 or $122,902 per person).

There are only slightly more Chester County homes and people per square mile (257.3 and 670.3) than in Lancaster County (215.8 and 554.5) — and less than half of those in Montgomery (674.3 and 1,666) and a quarter of those in Delaware (1,210 and 3,045) counties.

That wealth is not all concentrated in just a few hands, either. Owner occupancy in Chester County (75.7 percent) is second only to Bucks County (78 percent).

Check out more of the home value and density stats in The Economist here, and take a look at what’s happening in Chester County real estate on VISTA Today here.