Septic suitability in Hill County, TX

Very limited

Hill County, TX's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 86.1% of the county. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, and it covers 86.1% of Hill County's land. For scale: 958.859 square miles and 38,771 people call Hill County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Nothing about Hill County, TX's SSURGO figure applies to a specific address - it's a county-wide average. 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 Hill County, TX

Hill 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.

How Hill County, TX compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Hill County, TX ranks 1,606 most-constrained nationally, and 117 of 253 within Texas.

Further reading

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