# Counties in South Carolina by farms, 2022

All 46 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/south-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Anderson County | 1,552 |
| 2 | Spartanburg County | 1,230 |
| 3 | Aiken County | 1,132 |
| 4 | York County | 983 |
| 5 | Greenville County | 920 |
| 6 | Lexington County | 822 |
| 7 | Oconee County | 778 |
| 8 | Orangeburg County | 764 |
| 9 | Laurens County | 750 |
| 10 | Pickens County | 742 |
| 11 | Abbeville County | 680 |
| 12 | Horry County | 629 |
| 13 | Saluda County | 612 |
| 14 | Colleton County | 575 |
| 14 | Kershaw County | 575 |
| 16 | Chester County | 557 |
| 17 | Newberry County | 555 |
| 18 | Williamsburg County | 530 |
| 19 | Chesterfield County | 517 |
| 20 | Lancaster County | 510 |
| 21 | Greenwood County | 477 |
| 22 | Sumter County | 445 |
| 23 | Edgefield County | 410 |
| 24 | Florence County | 391 |
| 25 | Cherokee County | 382 |
| 26 | Charleston County | 370 |
| 27 | Dorchester County | 363 |
| 28 | Clarendon County | 341 |
| 29 | Richland County | 340 |
| 30 | Berkeley County | 330 |
| 31 | Barnwell County | 327 |
| 32 | Darlington County | 314 |
| 33 | Union County | 313 |
| 34 | Lee County | 308 |
| 35 | Calhoun County | 286 |
| 36 | Bamberg County | 260 |
| 37 | Fairfield County | 252 |
| 38 | Georgetown County | 213 |
| 39 | Dillon County | 200 |
| 40 | Hampton County | 185 |
| 41 | Marlboro County | 155 |
| 42 | Allendale County | 126 |
| 43 | Jasper County | 112 |
| 43 | Marion County | 112 |
| 45 | McCormick County | 107 |
| 46 | Beaufort County | 101 |