# Counties in California by farms, 2022

All 58 values come from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `farms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Places from which 1,000 dollars or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year, as counted by the USDA Census of Agriculture every five years.
- Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: number of farms, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022) (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/usda-nass
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture: number of farms, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/farms/california-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Fresno County | 4,427 |
| 2 | San Diego County | 4,031 |
| 3 | Tulare County | 3,713 |
| 4 | Stanislaus County | 3,455 |
| 5 | San Joaquin County | 3,439 |
| 6 | Sonoma County | 3,097 |
| 7 | Riverside County | 2,424 |
| 8 | San Luis Obispo County | 2,184 |
| 9 | Merced County | 2,047 |
| 10 | Ventura County | 1,812 |
| 11 | Napa County | 1,772 |
| 12 | Kern County | 1,691 |
| 13 | Butte County | 1,667 |
| 14 | Santa Barbara County | 1,359 |
| 15 | Madera County | 1,255 |
| 16 | El Dorado County | 1,204 |
| 17 | Tehama County | 1,154 |
| 18 | Shasta County | 1,120 |
| 19 | Sacramento County | 1,118 |
| 20 | Placer County | 1,093 |
| 21 | Glenn County | 1,084 |
| 22 | Monterey County | 1,057 |
| 23 | Mendocino County | 975 |
| 24 | Sutter County | 890 |
| 25 | Kings County | 862 |
| 26 | Santa Clara County | 825 |
| 27 | San Bernardino County | 809 |
| 28 | Yolo County | 795 |
| 29 | Los Angeles County | 766 |
| 30 | Yuba County | 760 |
| 31 | Humboldt County | 721 |
| 32 | Colusa County | 715 |
| 33 | Solano County | 712 |
| 34 | Siskiyou County | 655 |
| 35 | Nevada County | 620 |
| 36 | Santa Cruz County | 614 |
| 37 | Calaveras County | 603 |
| 38 | Lake County | 581 |
| 39 | San Benito County | 539 |
| 40 | Imperial County | 482 |
| 41 | Amador County | 445 |
| 42 | Modoc County | 426 |
| 43 | Lassen County | 419 |
| 44 | Contra Costa County | 405 |
| 45 | Alameda County | 397 |
| 46 | Mariposa County | 388 |
| 47 | Tuolumne County | 326 |
| 48 | Marin County | 255 |
| 49 | San Mateo County | 250 |
| 50 | Plumas County | 161 |
| 51 | Orange County | 158 |
| 52 | Trinity County | 139 |
| 53 | Inyo County | 63 |
| 54 | Mono County | 61 |
| 55 | Del Norte County | 54 |
| 56 | Sierra County | 49 |
| 57 | San Francisco County | 7 |
| 58 | Alpine County | 4 |