Septic soil in Lancaster County, PA, by the numbers
Very limited
51.1% of Lancaster County, PA's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. 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. Lancaster County, PA is 943.924 square miles with a population of 563,293.
What Lancaster County's reading doesn't cover
Lancaster 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 Lancaster County will actually do.
What a system would cost here
With 51.1% of Lancaster 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.
Where this sits nationally
Nationally, Lancaster County, PA is the 2,859-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Pennsylvania alone it ranks 66 of 66.
Further reading
How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems