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Charleston County, South Carolina

Charleston County, SC: non-irrigated cash rent $25 an acre (2023); land and buildings $11,145 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 108.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 45019. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Land value rose 19 percent from 2017-2022, 3.5 percent a year. Drought weeks were low recently, 2 from 2021-2025, against 78 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 countywide. Irrigation draws 0 percent of water from groundwater in 2015.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$25/ac

2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare

Land and buildings

$11,145/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
SC median $3,802 · 2nd highest of 46

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 27% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2012–2024 median

108.0 bu/ac

recent level 2020–2024: 114.2

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$12.45

2016–2025, closed crop years
SC median $15.63 · 11th lowest of 37

Farmland rented

12%

2022 census, rented from others
SC median 21% · 7th lowest of 46

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.

Non-irrigated, 2023$25/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$11,145/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$6,234/ac

Census 2017$9,369/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+19.0%+3.5% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 27% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2012–2024108.0 bu/ac11 published years

Recent level, 2020–2024114.2 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped

Lowest published year2022: 86.0 bu/ac80% of median

Trend, 2012–2024+0.7 bu/ac a year±3.3 (95% interval)

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$12.45

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.78claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.46$2.0 million paid

Largest causes of loss, 1990–2024excess moisture 32% · heat and drought 31% · other 14%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–202578 of 1,357 weeks6% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200231 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20252 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202674.2 °F1991–2020 normal 73.2 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.49 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September29.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Farmed no-till, 202215% of cropland1,582 ac

Cover crops, 202210% of cropland1,013 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac

CRP average rental payment, FY2022$26/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Cattle and calves, 20221,438−36.0% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202212%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Charleston County	$25 2023	$11,145	—	$12.45
Berkeley County	$27	$3,279	85.1	$49.36
Colleton County	$43	$3,789	89.2	$28.50
Dorchester County	$45	$3,959	109.4	$14.50
Georgetown County	$39	$2,960	—	$27.41
Median next door	$41	$3,534	89.2	$27.96

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. Charleston County, South 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/south-carolina/charleston-county

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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