Government Auctions Near Me

Government Auctions by state

Every state with live government auctions right now, most first. Each page shows the auctions with photos, the cities with the most, who is selling, and what the same things sold for there.

• Missouri9,862
• Pennsylvania5,227
• Texas3,634
• California3,519
• Florida2,619
• Illinois1,674
• Kansas1,522
• Ohio1,433
• Virginia1,419
• Georgia1,293
• Tennessee1,217
• North Carolina1,052
• Oklahoma953
• Nevada765
• Kentucky748

How government auctions near you work

Every city, county, school district, state agency and federal office sells what it is done with at public auction, and almost all of it is pickup only. That makes the auctions closest to you the ones worth watching: a truck 40 miles away is a morning's errand, the same truck three states away is a shipping bill.

UX Search reads 28 government auction platforms for this category and has 80,590 government auctions live right now across 50 states, with the most in Missouri (9,862), Pennsylvania (5,227), Texas (3,634), California (3,519), Florida (2,619). The sellers are cities, counties, school districts, state agencies and federal offices, and what they sell is vehicles, trucks, equipment, furniture, electronics and everything else a government owns. A county surplus sale has cars and pickups from the fleet, mowers from parks, desks and chairs from offices, and whatever the sheriff's property room could not return to an owner.

Local means the pickup location, not the seller's headquarters. A state agency can list a truck at a district yard 200 miles from the capital, and a federal sale can be at a base or a depot anywhere in the country, so read the location on the listing rather than the agency's name. Our city pages sort the live auctions by where the item actually is, and the closing-soonest list on each state page tells you what to decide on first.

Bidding is open to anyone who registers on the platform that runs the sale, which is free on most of them and takes a card on file or a deposit on some. The winning bid is not the whole price: a buyer's premium of a few percent to around 12 percent is added on most platforms, sales tax applies unless you are exempt, and a late pickup can cost a daily storage fee or the item itself. The middle hammer price for government auctions in our archive this year is $3,268; the state table below shows how that varies.

Questions people ask

How do I find government auctions near me?

Pick your state below, or let the page find it: UX Search reads where the request comes from and shows the live government auctions in that state and, where it can, your city. Every state page lists the live auctions with photos and the cities with the most, and every listing links to the official platform that runs the sale.

Are there government auctions in every state?

Right now UX Search shows live government auctions in 50 states, with the most in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Florida. Counts change by the hour as agencies post listings and sales close.

Do I have to pick up in person?

Usually, yes. Government surplus is sold as is, where it is, and the listing names the pickup location and the window, often five to ten business days after the sale closes. Some sellers allow a shipper or a third party to collect with written authorization; vehicles and equipment almost always have to be collected or hauled.

What do government auctions sell for?

Over the past year the UX Search sold archive recorded 63,046 closed sales in this category with a middle hammer price of $3,268, from $1 to $800,000, before the buyer's premium and tax. The table on this page shows the middle price by state.

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Live counts from the UX Search index, updated every 15 minutes. Sold prices are real hammer prices from the UX sold archive over the past year. Your state comes from where the request was made (nothing is stored); the state picker overrides it. UX Search is independent and never takes a bid.