Quitman County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Quitman County, GA's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 55.2% of the county. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 55.2% of Quitman County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. For scale: 151.242 square miles and 2,323 people call Quitman County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Quitman County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. 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 Quitman County, GA

Quitman 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 Quitman County, GA compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Quitman County, GA ranks 2,821 most-constrained nationally, and 97 of 159 within Georgia.

Further reading

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