Stark County, OH's soil, for a septic absorption field

Very limited

92% of Stark County, OH's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 92% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. Stark County covers 574.94 square miles and counts 374,091 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Stark 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 Stark County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Stark 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.

Stark County's rank among Ohio counties

Nationally, Stark County, OH is the 1,035-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Ohio alone it ranks 69 of 87.

Related guides

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