Chowan County, North Carolina
Chowan County, NC: non-irrigated cash rent $99 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,973 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 141.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 37041. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Chowan County averages $99 per acre in 2026, up 12.5 percent from 2016. Land value comes in at $3,973 per acre in 2022, up 13.7 percent from 2017, or 2.6 percent a year. Excess moisture and flood is the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025 at 42 percent of $14.7 million paid, and the loss ratio over that span is 0.51, with 0 of 12 crop years paying out more than premium. July nightly lows average 71.9 F over 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 70.5 F, and the trend since 1976 runs 0.74 F per decade, warming. Severe drought or worse covered at least 50 percent of the county in 76 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025, with only 6 such weeks from 2021-2025.
NC median $80 · tied for 28th highest of 85
too few 2020 county surveys in the state to compare
NC median $5,711 · 13th lowest of 92
NC median 114.8 · 9th highest of 49
NC median $14.91 · 8th lowest of 78
NC median 35% · 16th highest of 94
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
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chowan County | $99 | $3,973 | 141.4 | $5.67 |
| Bertie County | $133 | $4,072 | 122.8 | $6.56 |
| Gates County | $112 | $4,274 | 130.1 | $4.57 |
| Hertford County | $115 | $3,623 | 120.2 | $8.07 |
| Perquimans County | $112 | $3,918 | 144.4 | $5.15 |
| Median next door | $114 | $3,995 | 126.5 | $5.86 |
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. Chowan County, North Carolina. 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/north-carolina/chowan-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.