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Farm Household Income

Estimates of Household Share of Farm Business Income, Household Share of Drawings and Household Off-Farm Income.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 23 May 2023
• Last updated: 12 May 2026
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  1. 12 May 2026

     Updated details.

  2. 18 December 2025

     Added CTA box and link to new methodology page.

  3. 23 August 2023

     The 2021/22 publication has been re-released. Within the publication, we use the terminology ‘farm household income’ to relate to three separate measures: Household Share of Farm Business Income, Household Share of Drawings, and Household Off-Farm Income. The original, and historic, definition of 'Farm Household Income' has been removed due to a concern over the data definitions.

  4. 28 June 2023

     The 2021/22 publication and corresponding dataset have been removed due to a concern over data definitions. We will review our methodology and post an update as soon as possible.

  5. 23 May 2023

     First published.

Applies to England

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Farming household income in England: 2021/22

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Farm household incomes, 2005/06 to 2021/22

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Farm household incomes, 2005/06 to 2021/22 (Machine Readable Version)

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Data for figure 1.1: Median Household Share of Farm Business Income (equivalised and in real terms) for farming households in England, 2005/06 to 2021/22

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Data for figure 1.2: Median Household Share of Farm Business Income (equivalised and in real terms) for cropping and mixed farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 1.3: Median Household Share of Farm Business Income (equivalised and in real terms) for livestock farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 1.4: Median Household Share of Farm Business Income by farm size (based on SLR) in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 2.1: Median Household Share of Drawings (equivalised and in real terms) for farming households in England, 2005/06 to 2021/22

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Data for figure 2.2: Median Household Share of Drawings (equivalised and in real terms) for cropping and mixed farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 2.3: Median Household Share of Drawings (equivalised and in real terms) for livestock farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 2.4: Median Household Share of Drawings (equivalised and in real terms) by farm size (based on SLR) in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 3.1: Median Household Off-Farm Income (equivalised and in real terms) for farming households in England, 2005/06 to 2021/22

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Data for figure 3.2: Median Household Off-Farm Income (equivalised and in real terms) for cropping and mixed farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 3.3: Median Household Off-Farm Income (equivalised and in real terms) for livestock farms in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Data for figure 3.4: Median Household Off-Farm Income (equivalised and in real terms) by farm size (based on SLR) in England, 2014/15 and 2021/22

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Details

Defra has been reviewing the way we collect and measure data on Farm Household Income for England only. A paper summarising this review is available at Farm Household Income: methodology.

This publication presents the estimates of three components of farm household income: Household Share of Farm Business Income, Household Share of Drawings and Household Off-Farm Income. These measures apply to England only and are presented by farm type and size (size is based on Standard Labour Requirements). This release covers the 2021/22 Farm Business Survey and also includes a historic time series from 2005/06 to 2014/15.

Defra statistics: Farm Business Survey

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