Horry County, South Carolina
Horry County, SC: non-irrigated cash rent $75 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,912 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 115.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 45051. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Horry County is $74 per acre in 2026, down 6.9 percent from 2016. Land value, at $4,912 per acre from the 2022 census, rose 8.9 percent from 2017 to 2022. Heat and drought is the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities over 1989-2025 at 37 percent, and its share by decade moved from 33 percent in 1989-1999 to 40 percent in 2000-2009 to 46 percent in 2010-2019, then down to 25 percent in 2020-2025. Drought weeks eased too: 87 of 1357 weeks were in severe drought or worse from 2000-2025, against 4 weeks from 2021-2025. Irrigation covers 6 percent of harvested cropland as of the 2022 census, and all of that water comes from groundwater as of 2015.
SC median $40 · highest of 38
too few 2017 county surveys in the state to compare
SC median $3,802 · 12th highest of 46
SC median 119.2 · 8th lowest of 17
SC median $15.63 · 4th highest of 37
SC median 21% · 8th highest 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horry County | $75 | $4,912 | 115.4 | $30.54 |
| Brunswick County, NC | $78 | $4,930 | 119.8 | $23.55 |
| Columbus County, NC | $86 | $3,906 | 111.0 | $26.25 |
| Dillon County | $61 | $2,757 | 124.9 | $14.54 |
| Georgetown County | $39 | $2,960 | — | $27.41 |
| Marion County | $64 | $2,868 | 121.6 | $22.55 |
| Median next door | $64 | $2,960 | 120.7 | $23.55 |
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. Horry 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/horry-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.