South Carolina farmland cash rent by county
What an acre of farmland rents for in each South Carolina county, from the USDA’s 2026 county cash rents survey.
Statewide in 2026, cropland rents for $56 an acre and is valued at $4,100 an acre, so a year’s rent is 1.4% of its value; pasture rents for $24.50 an acre and is valued at $4,500 an acre, so a year’s rent is 0.54% of its value (USDA NASS state estimates).
| # | County | Cropland | Irrigated cropland | Pasture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horry County | $74.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 2 | Marion County | $64 | Not collected | $32 (2025) |
| 3 | Dillon County | $60.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 4 | Marlboro County | $60 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 5 | Calhoun County | $54 | $105 | Not collected |
| 6 | Clarendon County | $53.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 7 | Lee County | $52 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 8 | Orangeburg County | $49.50 | $115 | Not collected |
| 9 | Sumter County | $49.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 10 | Hampton County | $48.50 | $105 | Not collected |
| 11 | Chesterfield County | $47.50 | Not collected | $34 |
| 12 | Darlington County | $47 | $101 (2025) | Not collected |
| 13 | Florence County | $47 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 14 | Dorchester County | $45 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 15 | Barnwell County | $44 | $72 | $33.50 |
| 16 | Colleton County | $42.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 17 | Richland County | $42 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 18 | Aiken County | $40.50 | $111 | Not collected |
| 19 | Williamsburg County | $40 | $56 (2025) | $33.50 |
| 20 | Georgetown County | $39 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 21 | Bamberg County | $38.50 | $147 | $25.50 |
| 22 | Allendale County | $37.50 | $78 (2025) | Not collected |
| 23 | Newberry County | $34.50 (2025) | Not collected | $30 |
| 24 | Lancaster County | $33.50 | Not collected | $26 |
| 25 | York County | $33.50 | Not collected | $18.50 |
| 26 | Saluda County | $33 | Not collected | $27 |
| 27 | Lexington County | $33 | $120 | $21 |
| 28 | Oconee County | $32.50 | Not collected | $26.50 |
| 29 | Pickens County | $29 | Not collected | $28 |
| 30 | Cherokee County | $28.50 | Not collected | $22.50 |
| 31 | Greenville County | $28 | Not collected | $27.50 |
| 32 | Spartanburg County | $26.50 | Not collected | $20.50 |
| 33 | Berkeley County | $26.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 34 | Edgefield County | $26 (2025) | Not collected | Not collected |
| 35 | Anderson County | $24 | Not collected | $20 |
| 36 | Chester County | $22 | Not collected | $16 |
| 37 | Abbeville County | $20.50 | Not collected | $17.50 |
| 38 | Laurens County | $20 | Not collected | $26 |
| 39 | Greenwood County | $15 | Not collected | $12 |
| 40 | Union County | $15 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 41 | Fairfield County | $12.50 (2024) | Not collected | $17.50 |
| 42 | McCormick County | Not collected | Not collected | $20.50 |
| 43 | Kershaw County | Not collected | Not collected | $18 |
There is no rent-to-price column for South Carolina yet.
NASS withholds a county’s figure when too few farms answered, and pools some counties together; those counties are left out (43 of South Carolina’s counties have a figure). The county pages of the other 3 counties show our estimate from the counties around them, marked as an estimate.
Rent: USDA NASS county cash rents survey, 2026 (released August 21, 2026), public domain.