USDA county cash rentFIPS 42029
Chester County, Pennsylvania cash rent (2026)
Mean annual cash rent per acre, preserved by USDA land-use category. These figures are not a low, median, and high distribution. The annual history below spans 2019 through 2026.
Full active history: every available rate year is listed below. Suppressed and unreported cells stay unavailable, never zero.
Annual county means
Cash rent by land type and year
Missing and USDA-suppressed categories display as an em dash, never zero. Gaps in the chart are years without a published value.
- Non-irrigated cropland
- Irrigated cropland
- Pasture
| Rate year | Non-irrigated cropland | Irrigated cropland | Pasture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $199 | $269 | — (not reported) |
| 2025 | $204 | — (not reported) | $43 |
| 2024 | $214 | — (not reported) | $30 |
| 2023 | $158 | — (not reported) | $51 |
| 2022 | $165 | $181 | $49 |
| 2021 | $163 | $213 | $57 |
| 2020 | $188 | — (not reported) | $31 |
| 2019 | $160 | — (not reported) | $81 |
State context
How this county compares
Each comparison uses the same land type and rate year across Pennsylvania reporting counties.
Non-irrigated cropland
- Chester County
- $199
- Median among reporting counties (61 reporting counties)
- $68
97th percentile among 61 reporting counties.
Irrigated cropland
- Chester County
- $269
- Median among reporting counties (2 reporting counties)
- $396
Percentile unavailable because the state year differs or fewer than 10 counties report.
Pasture
No valid latest-year county value for this land type.
Geographic comparison
Adjacent counties
Source and dates
About these rates
- Latest valid rate year
- 2026
- USDA source release
- Aug 21, 2026
- Dataset refreshed
- Oct 9, 2026
- Active dataset release
- bce02b07
USDA reports separate county means for each land-use category. A suppressed value indicates that USDA withheld the number; an absent category means it was not reported in the active release history.