What Osborne County, KS's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

74.8% of Osborne County, KS'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. Osborne County covers 892.516 square miles and counts 3,353 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Osborne County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Osborne County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Osborne 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.

How Osborne County, KS compares

Nationally, Osborne County, KS is the 2,295-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Kansas alone it ranks 70 of 105.

Further reading

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