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Texas Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Texas, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 190 Texas counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $27/acre · +1.9% vs 2025 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$27
MIDDLE COUNTY EDGED UP
The median Texas county paid $27 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026, +1.9% vs 2025 across the same 161 counties. Highest county: San Patricio at $83.50. Every county is in the table below.
That is the middle county on this page, not USDA NASS’s statewide average, which is not on this page yet.
These are the 2026 county rents, the newest NASS has put out (released Aug 21, 2026). NASS says county rents come out in late August every year, and they have every year since 2019; the 2027 date is not on its calendar yet.

Part of the Farmland Atlas: land values, rent and risk for every county.

Choosing ARC or PLC for 2026 or 2027? See Texas ARC or PLC by county.

$27
median rent /ac · 2026
non-irrigated cropland, 190 counties
+1.9%
vs 2025
median of 161 matched counties
+37.5%
vs 2017
median of 161 matched counties
$83.50
top county
San Patricio
$99
irrigated median · 2026
irrigated cropland, 43 counties, shown apart
$11
pasture median · 2026
permanent pasture, 223 counties, shown apart

Insuring pasture or hay ground? See PRF rainfall insurance in Texas: county values, what each pair of months costs, and every year since 1951.

Rent for your ground, not the county average

The county number doesn’t know your ground. This scales the county’s 2026 rent by your own corn yield.

Pick a county and type your yield.

Derived by AGSIST, not a NASS number: the county’s 2026 NASS dryland rent divided by its 2026 corn trend yield (our 14-yr trend, same practice as the rent), times your yield. It assumes rent moves in step with yield, which real leases only roughly do. Use your APH or a typical year, not your best one. 25 of 190 Texas counties have both numbers; for the rest the Corn trend column below says why there is none.

Two more ways to figure a fair rent

Share of gross. Your bushels times a price, and the share of that the rent takes. The share starts at the county’s own: its 2026 rent as a share of its trend-yield gross at this price.

Default: Texas’s 2025 average price received for corn (USDA NASS, preliminary).

Return on land value. What the land is worth times the return an owner wants on it.

Cost-based. What is left of your gross after your own costs and pay for your work. That needs your budget, so this page doesn’t guess one.

For rent as a share of gross year by year since 2008, open the Farmland Atlas and its rent share calculator.

Every published county, 2026

Tap a column heading to sort. Greyed values are the county’s most recent published year where 2026 wasn’t published. Columns cover non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, permanent pasture; state stats above use non-irrigated cropland, the rent this site means by “rent”. Each county name opens its Farmland Atlas record (land value, yield, insurance and drought). Corn trend is the county’s 14-yr trend yield (projected 2026) from NASS county estimates, fitted on the same practice as the rent: the figure the Atlas county page divides rent by for rent per bushel, and the one its rent share calculator starts from.

Swipe the table sideways for every column.

CountyNon-irrigated 2026Irrigated 2026Pasture 2026YoYCorn trend 2026
Anderson$29n/a$18.50+26.1%n/a
Andrews$22.50 (2022)n/a$2.90n/an/a
Angelina$11 (2024)n/a$19n/an/a
Aransasn/an/a$5 (2020)n/an/a
Archer$33.50n/a$12.50+4.7%n/a
Armstrong$35.50$60.50 (2023)$8.10n/amixed
Atascosa$19$140 (2025)$12+0.0%mixed
Austin$38n/a$12.50 (2025)+65.2%94 bu
Bailey$48$124$6.40+1.1%mixed
Bandera$10 (2025)n/a$5.10n/an/a
Bastrop$24.50n/a$12.50n/an/a
Baylor$30.50$31.50 (2017)$11-1.6%n/a
Bee$56$53 (2011)$9.90-20.6%mixed
Bell$46n/a$19-1.1%mixed
Bexar$30$72.50$14.50+9.1%mixed
Blanco$14n/a$7.30-15.2%n/a
Borden$35.50n/a$5.40n/an/a
Bosque$26n/a$11+13.0%n/a
Bowie$23.50n/a$21.50n/an/a
Brazoria$34$60$16.50+30.8%mixed
Brazos$30.50$89 (2023)$13+35.6%mixed
Brewstern/an/a$1.50 (2025)n/an/a
Briscoe$20$62 (2024)$6.50+5.3%mixed
Brooks$8.10 (2023)n/a$7.90n/an/a
Brown$16.50$37.50 (2019)$11.50-21.4%n/a
Burleson$23.50 (2025)$124 (2022)$8.50n/amixed
Burnet$15 (2025)n/a$10.50n/an/a
Caldwell$33$32.50 (2022)$12.50n/a69 bu
Calhoun$51.50$55 (2011)$15-15.6%mixed
Callahan$16n/a$9.40+18.5%n/a
Cameron$59.50$94$3.50-9.8%mixed
Camp$22n/a$18.50-10.2%n/a
Carson$48$79.50 (2025)$10+6.7%mixed
Cass$18n/a$16+28.6%n/a
Castro$49$145$19.50+34.2%mixed
Chambers$22$65$12+15.8%n/a
Cherokee$18n/a$17.50-5.3%n/a
Childress$25$26$9.50n/an/a
Clay$26.50n/a$12.50-1.9%n/a
Cochran$34$140 (2023)$6.70 (2024)-11.7%mixed
Coke$30n/a$6.40+46.3%n/a
Coleman$18.50n/a$11-15.9%n/a
Collin$31.50n/a$11-17.1%68 bu
Collingsworth$40.50n/a$8-8.0%n/a
Colorado$56.50$106$15.50+145.7%mixed
Comal$12.50n/a$3.20+19.0%n/a
Comanche$35$47 (2021)$15.50+1.4%n/a
Concho$27$74 (2023)$6.40-11.5%mixed
Cooke$31n/a$17.50+1.6%89 bu
Coryell$20n/a$12.50-16.7%n/a
Cottle$23.50n/a$10n/an/a
Cranen/an/a$1.90 (2021)n/an/a
Crockettn/an/a$3.80n/an/a
Crosby$55$69$4.70+12.2%mixed
Culberson$12.50 (2013)n/a$0.60 (2022)n/an/a
Dallam$20.50$127$11.50n/amixed
Dallas$19.50 (2023)n/a$13.50 (2025)n/an/a
Dawson$48 (2025)$109 (2023)$13.50n/an/a
DeWitt$22.50n/a$14.50-59.8%94 bu
Deaf Smith$31.50$101$11-4.5%mixed
Delta$24n/a$21.50-31.4%n/a
Denton$22n/a$14.50n/an/a
Dickens$26.50n/a$7.30+32.5%n/a
Dimmit$17.50 (2020)n/a$4.20n/an/a
Donley$20.50$106 (2024)$11n/amixed
Duval$19 (2024)n/a$7.60n/an/a
Eastland$20.50n/a$12+24.2%n/a
Ectorn/an/a$0.40 (2025)n/an/a
Edwards$5 (2016)n/a$2.70n/an/a
El Paso$59.50$140$4.70 (2025)n/amixed
Ellis$26.50n/a$12+1.9%79 bu
Erath$24n/a$11.50+20.0%n/a
Falls$32.50n/a$24.50+14.0%109 bu
Fannin$37$71.50$21.50+15.6%mixed
Fayette$26$45 (2012)$14 (2024)-11.9%99 bu
Fisher$31n/a$9.30-13.9%n/a
Floyd$29.50$75.50$6.80-7.8%mixed
Foard$18.50 (2025)n/a$10n/an/a
Fort Bend$41.50$98 (2023)$15-20.2%mixed
Franklin$26n/a$23.50-8.8%n/a
Freestone$25n/a$14+51.5%n/a
Frio$41$173$7.20+22.4%mixed
Gaines$50.50$190$7.10+31.2%n/a
Galveston$14.50n/a$14-38.3%n/a
Garza$28.50n/a$4.20 (2025)n/an/a
Gillespie$18$60 (2016)$7.20-28.0%mixed
Glasscock$34.50$68 (2016)$3.20+91.7%mixed
Goliad$29n/a$9.50-18.3%66 bu
Gonzales$27n/a$15.50+35.0%90 bu
Gray$23$84.50 (2022)$8.30-17.9%mixed
Grayson$31.50n/a$13+3.3%81 bu
Gregg$16.50 (2020)n/a$10 (2023)n/an/a
Grimes$18n/a$17-12.2%n/a
Guadalupe$29.50n/a$15.50-9.2%66 bu
Hale$50$147$18.50+33.3%mixed
Hall$26.50 (2025)n/a$9.40n/an/a
Hamilton$19n/a$9.70+11.8%n/a
Hansford$34$160$10.50-11.7%mixed
Hardeman$23n/a$9.10-4.2%n/a
Hardin$16.50n/a$11.50 (2024)n/an/a
Harris$34$72 (2013)$11+41.7%n/a
Harrison$18n/a$14-14.3%n/a
Hartley$49$205$4.50n/amixed
Haskell$32$54 (2024)$11+12.3%n/a
Hays$26.50n/a$4.20-28.4%ends 2022
Hemphill$23$60 (2017)$9.40+64.3%n/a
Henderson$37n/a$16+34.5%n/a
Hidalgo$48$109$10.50-25.6%mixed
Hill$42n/a$18+7.7%100 bu
Hockley$45.50$75$8.70+16.7%mixed
Hood$28n/a$16+5.7%n/a
Hopkins$30.50n/a$19.50+35.6%n/a
Houston$19.50n/a$14-9.3%n/a
Howard$35.50n/a$3.30n/an/a
Hudspethn/a$106 (2025)$0.60 (2025)n/an/a
Hunt$27.50n/a$12.50+25.0%44 bu
Hutchinson$20 (2025)$97.50 (2023)$6.50n/amixed
Irion$9.30 (2016)n/a$4.80n/an/a
Jack$27.50n/a$12+44.7%n/a
Jackson$56$89.50 (2022)$14.50+0.0%mixed
Jasper$16n/a$12.50+18.5%n/a
Jeff Davisn/an/a$5n/an/a
Jefferson$44$50.50$12+46.7%n/a
Jim Hogg$5.70 (2023)n/a$5.10n/an/a
Jim Wells$31 (2025)n/a$12n/an/a
Johnson$23.50n/a$9.10-13.0%76 bu
Jones$29.50n/a$12+1.7%n/a
Karnes$25n/a$13+38.9%77 bu
Kaufman$26n/a$19.50+13.0%n/a
Kendall$9.50n/a$5.40-38.7%n/a
Kenedyn/an/a$4.10 (2025)n/an/a
Kent$9.80 (2024)n/a$5.90n/an/a
Kerr$26 (2025)n/a$6n/an/a
Kimble$7.90 (2024)n/a$3n/an/a
King$35 (2025)n/a$4.40 (2016)n/an/a
Kinney$11n/a$5.60n/an/a
Kleberg$45.50n/a$15+8.3%n/a
Knox$27$52.50 (2023)$8.80-6.9%n/a
La Salle$15 (2022)n/a$6.10 (2025)n/an/a
Lamar$21.50$62.50 (2020)$20-14.0%mixed
Lamb$65.50$107$8.40 (2025)n/amixed
Lampasas$20n/a$7.10-2.4%n/a
Lavaca$28n/a$13.50+9.8%95 bu
Lee$13n/a$13-38.1%101 bu
Leon$16n/a$14.50n/an/a
Liberty$23$69 (2020)$11.50-11.5%mixed
Limestone$16 (2025)n/a$13.50n/a95 bu
Lipscomb$18.50$113$9-5.1%mixed
Live Oak$19.50n/a$6.80-30.4%n/a
Llano$9.90n/a$11n/an/a
Lovingn/an/a$0.50 (2013)n/an/a
Lubbock$42$75.50$8.20+10.5%mixed
Lynn$47$91.50$9.40-2.1%mixed
Madison$15 (2025)$37$10n/an/a
Marion$16.50 (2016)n/a$15.50 (2023)n/an/a
Martin$42n/a$4.20 (2017)n/an/a
Mason$21.50$115 (2022)$5.40n/an/a
Matagorda$61.50$68.50$20-2.4%mixed
Maverick$15 (2016)$50 (2019)$3.40 (2024)n/an/a
McCulloch$26n/a$7.10+4.0%n/a
McLennan$43n/a$19.50+1.2%95 bu
McMullenn/an/a$2.10n/an/a
Medina$21$102$5.80-50.0%ends 2018
Menard$26.50n/a$5.60n/an/a
Midland$22.50 (2016)n/a$1.10n/an/a
Milam$48n/a$23.50-10.3%mixed
Mills$24 (2025)n/a$12.50n/an/a
Mitchell$23$50 (2012)$6.10-4.2%n/a
Montague$23n/a$14-19.3%n/a
Montgomery$16n/a$12.50-28.9%n/a
Moore$29 (2025)$146$8 (2025)n/amixed
Morris$21.50n/a$11.50-21.8%n/a
Motley$16.50 (2024)n/a$6.80n/an/a
Nacogdoches$17.50n/a$13-16.7%n/a
Navarro$36.50n/a$13.50+15.9%94 bu
Newton$14.50 (2017)n/a$7.20 (2024)n/an/a
Nolan$27$109 (2023)$6.50+3.8%n/a
Nueces$70$71$17+0.0%110 bu
Ochiltree$27.50$99$9-1.8%mixed
Oldham$20.50$80 (2020)$9.10+7.9%mixed
Orange$24 (2022)n/a$8.80n/an/a
Palo Pinto$21n/a$9.80-10.6%n/a
Panola$13.50n/a$7.60n/an/a
Parker$16.50 (2024)n/a$13n/an/a
Parmer$36.50$116$17.50 (2024)-1.4%mixed
Pecos$4.70 (2017)$38 (2014)$2.30n/an/a
Polk$16n/a$15.50-30.4%n/a
Potter$37n/a$6.40+23.3%n/a
Presidion/an/a$1.80n/an/a
Rains$22n/a$21.50-15.4%n/a
Randall$35.50$92.50 (2025)$9.90+31.5%mixed
Reagan$37.50 (2023)n/a$1.90n/amixed
Realn/an/a$6.50n/an/a
Red River$16$41 (2017)$15n/an/a
Reeves$30 (2016)$150 (2023)$12.50n/an/a
Refugio$48.50n/a$12-17.1%n/a
Roberts$9.60 (2022)$90 (2020)$7.10n/amixed
Robertson$11 (2025)$97.50$15n/amixed
Rockwall$25.50 (2025)n/a$10 (2024)n/an/a
Runnels$35$69 (2016)$9.20-11.4%n/a
Rusk$15n/a$14.50n/an/a
Sabine$15.50 (2022)n/a$10.50n/an/a
San Augustine$15.50 (2023)n/a$13n/an/a
San Jacinto$13.50n/a$15n/an/a
San Patricio$83.50n/a$11-4.6%78 bu
San Saba$11n/a$9.90-43.6%n/a
Schleicher$32n/a$6.90-7.2%n/a
Scurry$32n/a$7.10-13.5%n/a
Shackelford$20n/a$6.50 (2024)+17.6%n/a
Shelby$18n/a$15+28.6%n/a
Sherman$40$170$5.50+6.7%mixed
Smith$22n/a$15+15.8%n/a
Somervell$19.50n/a$15-20.4%n/a
Starr$18.50$95.50 (2024)$16-47.1%mixed
Stephens$11n/a$7.30-24.1%n/a
Sterling$5 (2023)n/a$3.20n/an/a
Stonewall$35.50n/a$8.50n/an/a
Sutton$7.60 (2024)n/a$5.90n/an/a
Swisher$39$72$14+8.3%mixed
Tarrant$29n/a$9.40 (2025)+38.1%n/a
Taylor$17n/a$5.30-41.4%n/a
Terrelln/an/a$1.70n/an/a
Terry$53.50$135 (2025)$5+0.9%mixed
Throckmorton$24.50n/a$7.80n/an/a
Titus$20n/a$24+25.0%n/a
Tom Green$50$150$4.90+16.3%mixed
Travis$23.50$108 (2021)$12+4.4%99 bu
Trinity$14n/a$14+0.0%n/a
Tyler$21.50 (2024)n/a$14n/an/a
Upshur$26.50n/a$20-18.5%n/a
Upton$30.50 (2017)n/a$5.90n/an/a
Uvalde$19.50$88$6.80-11.4%mixed
Val Verden/an/a$2.10n/an/a
Van Zandt$22n/a$16+10.0%n/a
Victoria$36n/a$13.50-30.1%115 bu
Walker$30n/a$14.50+106.9%n/a
Waller$44.50$64.50 (2024)$17.50+11.2%mixed
Ward$9.30 (2013)n/a$1 (2017)n/an/a
Washington$29n/a$13.50+38.1%n/a
Webb$12n/a$4.70n/an/a
Wharton$63$105$30.50+1.6%mixed
Wheeler$21n/a$10+40.0%n/a
Wichita$38.50$86.50 (2025)$10.50+10.0%mixed
Wilbarger$30.50n/a$17+10.9%n/a
Willacy$65.50$97.50$16 (2025)-13.2%mixed
Williamson$48n/a$15-8.6%98 bu
Wilson$31$65.50 (2017)$13+19.2%mixed
Winklern/an/a$0.90 (2024)n/an/a
Wise$15.50$76 (2022)$14.50+3.3%n/a
Wood$18.50n/a$16.50-7.5%n/a
Yoakum$29.50$158$3.80-18.1%n/a
Young$20n/a$8.90-14.9%n/a
Zapata$50 (2023)$45$6.80n/an/a
Zavala$23$50.50$4.10+4.5%mixed

Corn trend: mixed: NASS publishes only an all-practice corn yield for the county, and the county also irrigates, so that yield is withheld rather than set beside dryland rent; ends: the county’s yield series stopped that year, too long ago to project; n/a: too few years of county yield on record.

Texas median county rent by year

Median of counties published each year (non-irrigated cropland). Years with no survey are left blank.

2008
$20.5067 co.
2009
$20182 co.
2010
$20201 co.
2011
$20199 co.
2012
$19178 co.
2013
$18185 co.
2014
$20184 co.
2015no survey
2016
$19.50198 co.
2017
$20188 co.
2018no survey
2019
$21.50166 co.
2020
$21.50197 co.
2021
$22.50196 co.
2022
$21.50202 co.
2023
$23.50195 co.
2024
$24173 co.
2025
$26.50177 co.
2026
$27190 co.
What this can’t tell you. 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.

Questions

What is the average cash rent per acre in Texas for 2026?

The middle Texas county pays $27 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 190 counties with a published 2026 USDA NASS rate are above it and half below. NASS also puts out its own statewide average, a separate figure that is not shown here. Rents vary widely by county: highest San Patricio ($83.50), Nueces ($70), Lamb ($65.50); lowest Kendall ($9.50), Llano ($9.90), Stephens ($11). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much does pasture rent for per acre in Texas?

The median USDA NASS county cash rent for permanent pasture in Texas is $11 per acre across the 223 counties with a published 2026 pasture rate. Highest Wharton ($30.50), Falls ($24.50), Titus ($24); lowest Midland ($1.10), Terrell ($1.70), Presidio ($1.80). Each county's pasture rate is in its own column in the county table below.

How much did Texas cash rent change from 2025 to 2026?

Comparing the same 161 counties published in both years, the median non-irrigated cropland rent moved +1.9% year over year.

Why is my Texas county not listed?

USDA NASS publishes a county rate only where enough Cash Rents Survey responses came back (and the county has at least 20,000 acres of cropland plus pasture). If your county is missing, NASS did not publish a rate for it.

When is county cash rent data released?

USDA NASS releases county cash rent estimates each August for the current crop year. This page rebuilds automatically when new data lands.

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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 2026-10-06.