Gloucester County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Gloucester County, NJ's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 84.9% of the county. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 84.9% of Gloucester County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. For scale: 322.009 square miles and 311,783 people call Gloucester County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

USDA's survey covers the whole of Gloucester County, NJ at once, not any single address. The real answer for one lot is still a site-specific perc test, running about $750-$1,850 (typically near $1,300).

Budgeting for a system in Gloucester County, NJ

Gloucester County's soil reading pushes the likely outcome toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one. Conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 where they pass; where they don't, engineered alternatives (mound or aerobic treatment, whichever the health department requires) run $10,000-$40,000 - budget toward the higher figure until a perc test says otherwise.

Where this sits nationally

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Gloucester County, NJ ranks 1,697 most-constrained nationally, and 7 of 21 within New Jersey.

Before you act on this

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