Septic soil in Cedar County, NE, by the numbers

Very limited

Soil across 69.3% of Cedar County, NE rates "Very limited" in USDA's septic-absorption-field interpretation. A standard gravity system routinely fails on ground like this; the same share of the county falls in USDA's worst absorption-field bucket outright. Cedar County covers 740.189 square miles and counts 8,262 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

This is a countywide, area-weighted figure across every soil survey map unit in Cedar County, NE - never a reading for one specific parcel. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Cedar County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Cedar 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.

Cedar County's rank among Nebraska counties

Nationally, Cedar County, NE is the 2,486-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Nebraska alone it ranks 63 of 93.

Related guides

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