Cash Rent by StateNorth Carolina

North Carolina Cash Rent by County — 2025

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in North Carolina, straight from the NASS Cash Rents Survey — no estimates, no modeling, no login. 89 North Carolina counties with a published 2025 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $81/acre · +7.6% vs 2024 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-07-18

$81
median rent /ac · 2025
non-irrigated cropland, 89 counties
+7.6%
vs 2024
median of 81 matched counties
+19.6%
vs 2016
median of 70 matched counties
$188
top county
Hyde

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 non-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
Alamance$46$100 (2022)$24+3.4%129 bu
Alexander$54$40+22.7%107 bu
Alleghany$109$38.5+9.0%
Anson$81$44.5+12.5%123 bu
Ashe$98$235 (2023)$23+11.4%
Avery$70 (2022)
Beaufort$133+8.1%135 bu
Bertie$123$81.5 (2010)-3.9%135 bu
Bladen$83.5$155 (2014)$22 (2010)-0.6%114 bu
Brunswick$82.5$39.5 (2013)+10.7%129 bu
Buncombe$51$210 (2023)$30.5+9.7%132 bu
Burke$39$220 (2023)$20-7.1%113 bu
Cabarrus$79$25+9.7%124 bu
Caldwell$43 (2024)$39180 bu
Camden$120+10.1%164 bu
Carteret$89
Caswell$36$105 (2024)$25.5+16.1%114 bu
Catawba$38.5$150 (2016)$31.5-17.2%140 bu
Chatham$44.5$110 (2021)$30-18.3%111 bu
Cherokee$64.5$21.5 (2024)-3.0%186 bu
Chowan$107$100 (2020)+8.6%154 bu
Clay$65 (2024)$28.5 (2021)
Cleveland$40$24.5-5.9%108 bu
Columbus$86$80 (2017)$42.5-2.3%112 bu
Craven$95$115 (2016)$35.5+7.3%112 bu
Cumberland$94.5$100 (2017)$43106 bu
Currituck$99.5+5.9%165 bu
Davidson$57.5$24.5-0.9%115 bu
Davie$66$33.5+3.1%147 bu
Duplin$89.5$145 (2023)$45.5+6.5%120 bu
Durham$43.5+16.0%76 bu
Edgecombe$117$110 (2014)$40 (2021)+0.0%109 bu
Forsyth$62$90 (2017)$20 (2022)+15.9%
Franklin$69.5$83.5$24 (2024)-8.6%110 bu
Gaston$37$21+37.0%
Gates$102$71.5 (2011)-1.0%144 bu
Granville$75.5$81 (2023)$26 (2019)+15.3%130 bu
Greene$125$115 (2021)$49+2.5%101 bu
Guilford$39$59 (2021)$18.5-6.0%125 bu
Halifax$123$140 (2014)$51 (2024)+8.8%146 bu
Harnett$111$200 (2023)$38.5-6.7%106 bu
Haywood$59.5$240 (2024)$23-3.3%
Henderson$120 (2024)$175 (2016)$23 (2020)174 bu
Hertford$122$105 (2017)+9.9%125 bu
Hoke$61
Hyde$188+1.1%149 bu
Iredell$75.5$100 (2019)$32+7.1%149 bu
Jackson$58.5-17.6%
Johnston$115$100 (2017)$3498 bu
Jones$91$30.5 (2012)114 bu
Lee$88.5$95 (2016)$24.584 bu
Lenoir$120$144 (2014)$42.5 (2017)+5.3%131 bu
Lincoln$44$31.5 (2024)+12.8%139 bu
Macon$53.5$22.5-20.1%
Madison$73$24.5+3.5%
Martin$118+2.6%106 bu
Mcdowell$46.5 (2024)
Mitchell$58.5 (2023)$28.5
Montgomery$38.5$35 (2013)+32.8%
Moore$54.5$125 (2023)$24.5-18.7%90 bu
Nash$115$135 (2023)$34.5-2.5%101 bu
Northampton$113$130 (2017)$30 (2011)+0.9%117 bu
Onslow$110$40 (2011)+12.2%87 bu
Orange$40$75 (2020)$28.5-10.1%167 bu
Pamlico$99.5+11.2%145 bu
Pasquotank$124+6.9%181 bu
Pender$83$150 (2021)$32 (2021)149 bu
Perquimans$102$60 (2013)-1.0%148 bu
Person$58.5$117$32.5 (2024)+3.5%113 bu
Pitt$113$56 (2010)$25 (2014)-5.0%96 bu
Polk$34-15.0%
Randolph$72$67.5 (2013)$26+16.1%120 bu
Richmond$48.5$58.5 (2011)$16.5 (2012)+7.8%
Robeson$77.5$90 (2019)$46 (2024)+14.8%120 bu
Rockingham$56.5$90 (2024)$13.5+27.0%107 bu
Rowan$70$36+7.7%119 bu
Rutherford$47.5$21+18.8%105 bu
Sampson$110$126 (2022)$50.5 (2024)-0.9%109 bu
Scotland$71112 bu
Stanly$84$29.5-6.7%116 bu
Stokes$55.5$98 (2014)$25.5+16.8%140 bu
Surry$82$110 (2022)$33.5+12.3%156 bu
Transylvania$88-7.4%198 bu
Tyrrell$171+5.6%168 bu
Union$93$42.5-7.0%118 bu
Vance$46.5$67 (2023)$35 (2021)-12.3%
Wake$73$91 (2023)$33 (2021)-2.7%91 bu
Warren$48$55 (2017)$31-4.0%
Washington$139+7.8%154 bu
Watauga$66$24.5+16.8%
Wayne$135$110 (2020)$48.5+8.9%111 bu
Wilkes$68.5$36.5+16.1%158 bu
Wilson$155$150 (2022)$48 (2009)+6.9%104 bu
Yadkin$84$43.5+10.5%139 bu
Yancey$35.5$24.5-7.8%

North Carolina median county rent by year

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

2008
$5261 co.
2009
$51.579 co.
2010
$51.579 co.
2011
$50.7580 co.
2012
$5677 co.
2013
$64.2580 co.
2014
$7075 co.
2015no survey — gap shown, not interpolated
2016
$7271 co.
2017
$7479 co.
2018not published — gap shown, not interpolated
2019
$7380 co.
2020
$7080 co.
2021
$71.592 co.
2022
$74.587 co.
2023
$70.587 co.
2024
$7285 co.
2025
$8189 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.