Kleberg County, TX's soil, for a septic absorption field

Very limited

Soil across 75.4% of Kleberg County, TX 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. Kleberg County, TX is 881.306 square miles with a population of 30,442.

What Kleberg County's reading doesn't cover

Kleberg County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Kleberg County will actually do.

What a system would cost here

With 75.4% of Kleberg County rating "Very limited", a standard gravity system is not a safe assumption here. 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.

Kleberg County's rank among Texas counties

Nationally, Kleberg County, TX is the 2,258-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Texas alone it ranks 171 of 253.

Before you act on this

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