Walton County, Georgia
Walton County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $34 an acre (2026); land and buildings $6,750 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13297. Figures as of 2026-10-14.
GA median $58 · tied for 17th lowest of 105
GA median $4,057 · 25th highest of 135
GA median 24% · 18th highest of 138
Cash rent in Walton County is $34 per acre and has gone up 51.1 percent since 2016. Land value is $6,750 per acre. Heat and drought has claimed 61 percent of the crop insurance indemnities paid out from 1989 to 2025, totaling $881,810. The July average nightly low was 70.3 F in 2017-2026, up from the 1991-2020 normal of 68.7 F, and has been warming at 0.58 F per decade since 1976. Only 3 percent of the harvested cropland is irrigated.
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.
Every published Georgia county rate, side by side: Georgia cash rent by county.
Insuring pasture or hay? See PRF rainfall insurance in Walton County: its grids, county values and record.
Share of gross is a past year, all observed: that year's rent, that year's county corn yield of the same practice and the state price received, USDA NASS. Rent per bushel uses this year's rent over the 14-yr trend. The calculator below starts from that trend and lets you put in your own yield and price.
Land value
The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the Georgia average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Rain so far this year in Georgia, county by county
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walton County | $34 | $6,750 | n/a |
| Barrow County | $31 | $10,026 | n/a |
| Gwinnett County | n/a | $16,242 | n/a |
| Morgan County | $35 | $5,796 | $13.21 |
| Newton County | $29 | $6,257 | n/a |
| Oconee County | $35 2025 | $6,873 | n/a |
| Rockdale County | n/a | $7,472 | n/a |
| Median next door | $31 | $7,173 | $13.21 1 co. |
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. Walton County, Georgia. Figures as of 2026-10-14, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/georgia/walton-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. 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.