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Mecklenburg County farmland

$37.50 an acre a year

Cash rent for pasture, USDA NASS county survey, 2026

Cash rent in Mecklenburg County

What a farmer pays a landowner a year for an acre, from the USDA's county survey: the latest year NASS published for each kind of land.

Cash rent per acre a year in Mecklenburg County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Pasture$37.502026Not published by NASS

What farmland in Mecklenburg County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$27,096 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms7,704 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Satellite crop map of Mecklenburg County's farm parcels, 2025

Share of the acres of the county's 2,073 parcels coded as farm use, by the class the USDA Cropland Data Layer (a satellite land-cover map) gives each parcel's center. Land cover, not planted acres.

  • Mapped as grass and pasture25%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans4.1%
  • Mapped as corn1.8%
  • Mapped as hay (not alfalfa)1%
  • Mapped as sorghum0.7%
  • Mapped as other crops0.6%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)66%

USDA Cropland Data Layer 2025, shares of farm-parcel acres

Farmland in nearby counties

Cabarrus CountyGaston CountyIredell CountyLincoln CountyUnion County

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North Carolina farmland values by countyThe data (CSV, JSON)Mecklenburg County overviewCheck a parcel's soils and crops

About these numbersSources, dates and how these figures are built

Cash rent

USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released Aug 21, 2026. NASS withholds a county's figure when too few farms answer. Public domain.

Land value

USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture, released Feb 13, 2024. Public domain.

Satellite crop map

USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2025, a satellite land-cover map, read at each farm parcel's map point (the most common class of the 3 by 3 cells around it); parcels whose land type on the county roll is agricultural; read Oct 18, 2026. Shares are of those parcels' acres, each parcel counted whole under the class at its center, so they are not planted acres: USDA's planted and harvested acreage is the NASS county estimate (the yields table where it prints). Public domain.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 31, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.