What Barry County, MI's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

95.1% of Barry County, MI's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 95.1% of Barry County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. Barry County covers 553.104 square miles and counts 64,025 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Barry County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Barry County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Barry County's rating, plan for the engineered-system range rather than the conventional one. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

How Barry County, MI compares

Nationally, Barry County, MI is the 659-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Michigan alone it ranks 33 of 83.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems