Towns County, Georgia
Towns County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $46 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,672 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13281. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Towns County had 5,774 acres in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Towns County averages $46 per acre for 2026. The census value of land and buildings in 2022 was $7,672 per acre, with land value change 2017-2022 at 39.6 percent, 6.9 percent a year. Only 6 percent of harvested cropland was irrigated as of the 2022 census. Drought was frequent in the 2000-2025 record, with 215 of 1357 weeks at severe drought or worse and 2008 the worst year at 53 weeks, but only 12 such weeks occurred in 2021-2025. July nightly lows have warmed from a 1991-2020 normal of 62.1 F to 63.8 F in 2017-2026, part of a trend of 0.62 F per decade since 1976.
GA median $58
GA median $4,057
GA median 24%
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
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value |
|---|---|---|
| Towns County | $46 | $7,672 |
| Habersham County | $41 | $8,912 |
| Rabun County | $66 | $11,517 |
| Union County | $45 | $8,109 |
| White County | $53 | $11,468 |
| Clay County, NC | $65 2024 | $6,386 |
| Median next door | $49 | $8,912 |
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. Towns County, Georgia. 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/georgia/towns-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.