Accredited official statistics

Farm rents

Annual statistics about average farm rents in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 7 March 2013
• Last updated: 20 February 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Farm Rents in England, 2024/25 – statistics notice

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Farm Rents in England 2024/25 - dataset

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Farm Rents in England 2024/25 Tables: Machine-Readable CSV Format

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Details

Following feedback from users, this publication now contains additional information on the distribution of annual rent per hectare and the outcome of rent reviews.

If you are looking for the land area under different tenancy agreements, this is now published separately and can be found at the following link: Agricultural land ownership and tenure in England - GOV.UK. This is because the source of the data is the June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture, rather than the Farm Business Survey.

This publication shows estimates of average farm rents paid in England under full agricultural tenancies, farm business tenancies, seasonal agreements and informal agreements, the frequency and outcome of rent reviews, as well as average length of these agreements.

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Published 7 March 2013

Last updated 20 February 2026 + show all updates

1. 20 February 2026

   Update to the description information.

2. 19 February 2026

   Annual update of the 'Farm Rents' publication with data for 2024/25.

3. 23 January 2025

   Annual update of the 'Farm Rents' publication with data for 2023/24.

4. 23 January 2024

   Updates to Sections 6.1 & 6.2 and 'Details' pane.

5. 23 January 2024

   Annual update of the 'Farm Rents' publication with data for 2022/23.

6. 13 January 2023

   Figure 1.3 & 1.5 and tables 1.2 & 1.4 updated due to error in data.

7. 12 January 2023

   Updated with data for 2021.

8. 22 February 2022

   Added statistical notice with 2020 data.

9. 8 April 2021

   Descriptive text for table 3.1 pg. 11, corrected 08/04/2021, to read an increase of 4000 ha from 2018.

10. 25 March 2021

    Added latest statistical notice and dataset, data to 2019/20.

11. 12 March 2020

    Added latest statistical notice and datasets, 2018/19 figures.

12. 28 March 2019

    Updated with statistical notice for 2017, and dataset to 2017.

13. 29 March 2018

    Updated with statistical notice for 2016, and dataset to 2016.

14. 30 March 2017

    Updated to include 2015 statistics notice and dataset.

15. 19 April 2016

    Removed out of date commentary from detail summary on document page.

16. 17 March 2016

    Updated to include 2014 statistics notice and dataset.

17. 31 March 2015

    Farm Rents - England 2013 and dataset published.

18. 14 March 2014

    Corrected the estimates of average annual changes to rental agreements having a rent review (see the the last paragraph on page 3 of the statistics notice.)

19. 13 March 2014

    Updated to include 2012 figures.

20. 7 March 2013

    First published.