Farmland Atlas · county record

Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Orleans Parish, LA: land and buildings $44,661 an acre in the 2022 census, flagged to read with care. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22071. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Orleans Parish had 171 acres in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
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county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame
Land and buildings
$44,661/ac
2022 census · read with care: rose 331% from 2017 while next door rose a median 10%
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022
Corn yield, median
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NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
22%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51%

Cash rent

Cash rent— county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$44,661/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$15,489/ac
Census 2017$10,355/ac
Read with care— the 2022 census value rose 331% from 2017 while the 4 counties next door rose a median 10%. The census counts buildings and small residential farms, so the change since 2017, the rent-to-value ratio and the rank are withheld

Corn yield

County corn yield— NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county

Crop insurance record

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025420

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–2025119 of 1,357 weeks9% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200042 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202525 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202676.0 °F1991–2020 normal 74.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.40 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September36.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.5 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202226%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 2022none reported
Cover crops, 202230% of cropland31 ac

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Solar and wind operating, 202524.5 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 2022none reported
Farmland rented from others, 202222%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Orleans Parish—$44,661
Jefferson Parish—$2,176
Plaquemines Parish—$2,130
St. Bernard Parish—$2,086
St. Tammany Parish$14$10,879
Median next door$14 1 co.$2,153

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. Orleans Parish, Louisiana. 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/louisiana/orleans-parish
Every 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.

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