Litchfield County, Connecticut
Litchfield County, CT: non-irrigated cash rent $47 an acre (2025); land and buildings $14,512 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 09005. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Litchfield County averages $47 per acre in 2025, up 42.4 percent from 2014. Land value stands at $14,512 per acre, with a 28.2 percent gain from 2017 to 2022, 5.1 percent a year. July nights have warmed from a 1991-2020 normal of 59.3 F to 61.4 F over 2017-2026, a trend of 1 F per decade since 1976, and no July since 1900 has averaged a low at or above 70 F. Only 2 percent of harvested cropland is irrigated, and heat and drought's share of crop insurance indemnities moved from 6 percent in 2000-2009 to 7 percent in 2010-2019 to 33 percent in 2020-2025, while excess moisture and flood remains the largest cause of losses over 1995-2023 at 41 percent.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
CT median $13,767 · 4th highest of 8
CT median $11.66 · 3rd lowest of 5
CT median 27% · 3rd highest of 8
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in.
Drought and weather
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litchfield County | $47 2025 | — | $14,512 | $11.66 |
| Fairfield County | — | — | $11,310 | — |
| Hartford County | $152 | — | $15,160 | $21.93 |
| New Haven County | $80 | — | $25,431 | $10.38 |
| Berkshire County, MA | $58 | $114 | $8,606 | $9.05 |
| Hampden County, MA | $130 | $265 2023 | $13,611 | $27.28 |
| Dutchess County, NY | $54 | — | $10,698 | $25.78 |
| Median next door | $80 | $114 1 co. | $12,461 | $21.93 |
Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.
Cite this page
AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Litchfield County, Connecticut. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/connecticut/litchfield-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic
"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.
Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.