Looking for a country house for sale in Jura (39)? Between the vineyards, the reculées valleys and the first plateau, the department has kept a highly distinctive rural architecture: Jura-style farmhouses in limestone with wide overhanging roofs, wine-grower's houses clad in wooden shingles, market-town manor-style houses, smallholdings to renovate with garden and land. It suits families from the Lons-le-Saunier area looking for a main home as much as nature and wine lovers seeking a holiday home. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Jura published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Jura, the areas worth knowing from Lons-le-Saunier to the upper Jura and the vineyard area, and the criteria that determine the value of a house in the countryside. Our complete guide to buying a country house in France completes these benchmarks, from surveying an old building to financing.
How much does a country house cost in Jura (39)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Jura (39) stood at €186,000 in 2025, with an average price of €191,899 and a median price of €1,733/m² of living space (1,139 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €96,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €288,280 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 112 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,767 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well above the regional median (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: €157,000) and close to the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €158,250 to €186,000, i.e. +17.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.3%.
| 2025 indicator | Jura | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €186,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €191,899 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €96,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €288,280 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,733/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,767 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,139 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
A departmental average hides large gaps. A smallholding to renovate, a restored longère with its outbuildings, a farmhouse on several hectares of land or a manor house with parkland do not sell at the same price, and the location matters as much as the building: coastline, tourist area, peri-urban countryside close to a job market or deep countryside. The table below shows the median price of country houses in Jura (39) by type of municipality (cumulative sales from mid-2020 to 2025) and its change between 2021 and 2025.
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist coastline * | €173,775 | €2,197/m² | +20.4% | 34 |
| Residential coastline | €169,500 | €1,762/m² | +28.0% | 166 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €202,500 | €1,930/m² | +40.5% | 434 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €170,000 | €1,613/m² | +12.5% | 3,860 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €180,000 | €1,693/m² | +23.5% | 2,391 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Jura (39), the municipalities classified as "coastline" have no access to the sea. They are municipalities bordering lakes of more than 1,000 hectares (or, in Eure, the Seine estuary) covered by the 1986 Loi Littoral, which also applies to such inland lakes and estuaries.
These benchmarks help you assess a listing, estimate a property before putting it up for sale, or set your budget for a holiday home or a permanent move to the French countryside. To go further, see our observatory of country house prices in France (national, regional and departmental analysis, downloadable annual report) and work out the full cost of your purchase, including French notary fees, with our notary fees calculator.
The Jura farmhouse, massive and built in limestone, stands out for its wide, steeply pitched roof, covered in tiles or, in the upper Jura, in overlapping wooden shingles suited to heavy snowfall. In the vineyard area, around Arbois and Poligny, the wine-grower's house often includes a vaulted cellar on the ground floor, extended by a storeroom used for ageing the wine. In the market towns, the 19th-century manor-style house stands alongside timber-framed or rammed-earth smallholdings awaiting renovation. Some Jura farmhouses still keep their tué, a central smoke chimney once used to cure meats and Comté cheese.
The land frequently combines a garden, vines or meadow, and sometimes a small woodland of conifers on the second plateau. Outbuildings (barn, cellar, tobacco-drying shed in the Finage area) are common, as are hamlets tucked at the bottom of a reculée valley, with open views over the limestone cliffs and surrounding combes. Many of these outbuildings deserve a roof-structure survey before renovation, as wood-shingle roofing requires regular upkeep.
Around Lons-le-Saunier, the prefecture, and towards Arbois and Poligny, the Jura vineyard area concentrates the most sought-after manor-style houses and wine-grower's houses, close to Mouchard or Besançon TGV stations. Towards Dole, to the north, the countryside opens onto the plain and the Chaux forest. The upper Jura, around Saint-Claude and Morez, offers mid-mountain buildings, with more isolated farmhouses and chalets suited to a harsher climate. The reculées, those steep-sided valleys between the first and second plateau, shelter hamlets in a remarkable setting. Towards Champagnole and Clairvaux-les-Lacs, at the heart of the first plateau, the countryside combines forests, lakes and isolated farmhouses.
The vineyard area and the outskirts of Lons-le-Saunier remain more sought after and therefore more expensive, while the second plateau and the upper Jura, further from the main roads, offer more affordable country houses for a peaceful move to the countryside in an unspoilt, wooded setting. Buyers arriving from the Lyon area or nearby Switzerland often compare these areas before choosing between the vineyards and the mid-mountain setting.
Three factors dominate: proximity to the vineyard area and to the TGV stations (Mouchard, Besançon Franche-Comté TGV), the condition of the building (roof, timber frame suited to snow loads, damp in limestone walls) and altitude, which affects winter access for properties in the upper Jura. A renovated wine-grower's farmhouse near Arbois and a smallholding to renovate in the upper Jura can differ significantly in price for a comparable size. In mountain areas, it is also worth checking the roof structure's resistance to snow loads and access in bad weather.
Also check the private drainage system, common in rural areas, the local plan zoning for a barn or drying shed to convert, the fibre-optic coverage for remote working, and the energy rating, often a weak point for old, uninsulated stone farmhouses. The risk of land movement, present on some limestone hillsides, is also worth checking before buying.
On ma-propriete.fr, filter Jura country houses by budget, living space and land area, set up an email alert so you never miss a new listing, and if needed widen your search to all country houses for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is also worth comparing the vineyard area, more sought after, with the plateaus and the upper Jura, more affordable for a similar type of property.
