Cash Rent by StateCalifornia

California Cash Rent by County — 2025

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in California, straight from the NASS Cash Rents Survey — no estimates, no modeling, no login. 39 California counties with a published 2025 irrigated cropland rent · median $360/acre · -6.3% vs 2024 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-07-18

$360
median rent /ac · 2025
irrigated cropland, 39 counties
-6.3%
vs 2024
median of 31 matched counties
+6.5%
vs 2016
median of 33 matched counties
$4,000
top county
Napa

Every published county, 2025

Click a column to sort. Greyed values are the county’s most recent published year where 2025 wasn’t published. Columns cover non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, permanent pasture; state stats above use irrigated cropland (the most-published type here). Corn trend is the AGSIST least-squares trend yield from NASS county estimates.

CountyNon-irrigated 2025Irrigated 2025Pasture 2025YoYCorn trend
Alameda$20 (2022)$566$19
Amador$34.5 (2023)$324$24+15.7%
Butte$23.5 (2023)$504 (2023)$21.5
Calaveras$11 (2022)$236 (2023)$13
Colusa$28 (2021)$400$18-6.5%
Contra Costa$21.5 (2024)$410$21.5
Del Norte$12.5 (2021)
El Dorado$40 (2024)$923$11
Fresno$18.5 (2024)$310 (2020)$8.3
Glenn$32 (2024)$263$31+11.4%142 bu
Humboldt$22 (2024)$375$15+1.1%
Imperial$332-5.1%
Inyo$5.1 (2017)$106 (2017)$4.5 (2023)
Kern$48 (2023)$359$5.6 (2024)-13.3%
Kings$21.5 (2024)$300$16 (2017)-9.9%
Lake$350 (2021)$17.5
Lassen$15 (2024)$280$13.5 (2023)+14.8%
Los Angeles$84 (2024)$1,190-2.5%
Madera$28.5 (2023)$416$9.3+1.5%
Marin$53.5 (2024)$1,290$34
Mariposa$45 (2022)$18
Mendocino$32 (2022)$1,290$9.8-3.0%
Merced$22 (2024)$360$13.5 (2023)-12.8%
Modoc$22 (2024)$303$9.9 (2024)-1.6%
Mono$152 (2017)$18.5 (2013)
Monterey$13.5 (2024)$1,810$13-1.1%
Napa$21 (2024)$4,000$25-0.7%
Nevada$19.5 (2024)$966 (2024)$24.5
Orange$1,630 (2022)
Placer$40.5 (2024)$226$26.5+0.4%
Plumas$19 (2024)
Riverside$24.5 (2024)$282-13.2%
Sacramento$50 (2024)$307$24-9.4%225 bu
San Benito$15.5 (2024)$808 (2024)$13
San Bernardino$23 (2024)$252$4.9 (2010)
San Diego$1,260$18 (2016)-2.3%
San Joaquin$79.5 (2023)$425$24.5 (2023)212 bu
San Luis Obispo$27 (2023)$874$13.5+58.6%
San Mateo$50.5 (2023)$712 (2024)$19 (2024)
Santa Barbara$47.5 (2024)$2,410$8.1+0.4%
Santa Clara$24.5 (2024)$823$11+4.4%
Santa Cruz$75 (2014)$2,220$18.5 (2017)+2.3%
Shasta$20 (2022)$195$14
Sierra$17 (2023)
Siskiyou$21 (2023)$280$18+2.6%
Solano$24.5 (2024)$292$29+18.2%119 bu
Sonoma$72 (2024)$1,000 (2022)$28.5
Stanislaus$37 (2021)$331$25.5-13.6%
Sutter$37.5 (2023)$348$18.5 (2020)+0.0%133 bu
Tehama$16.5 (2024)$173$12.5-17.2%
Tulare$43.5 (2024)$360$19-8.9%
Tuolumne$26.5$215 (2011)$21
Ventura$63 (2024)$2,750$3.9 (2024)+0.4%
Yolo$33.5 (2024)$442$20213 bu
Yuba$33 (2016)$320$20+1.9%

California median county rent by year

Median of counties published each year (irrigated cropland). Gap years are shown as gaps — drawing a line across them would be an invention.

2008
$257.522 co.
2009
$31130 co.
2010
$26040 co.
2011
$26141 co.
2012
$28038 co.
2013
$295.538 co.
2014
$30541 co.
2015no survey — gap shown, not interpolated
2016
$35241 co.
2017
$35044 co.
2018not published — gap shown, not interpolated
2019
$37637 co.
2020
$36031 co.
2021
$352.540 co.
2022
$37737 co.
2023
$372.536 co.
2024
$402.534 co.
2025
$36039 co.
Honest limits. These are county means from a voluntary USDA survey — rents vary widely inside a county, driven by soil, drainage, field size and how badly a neighbor wants the ground. Year-over-year stats above compare only counties published in both years, so a county dropping out of the survey can’t fake a trend. Treat any county number as the start of a conversation, not a rate card.

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Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats — Cash Rents Survey county estimates (released each August) and county yield estimates. Page rebuilt automatically from data refreshed 2026-07-18. AGSIST is free and sells nothing on this page.