Brunswick County, NC Water Table Trend
Brunswick County, NC: what the water table is actually doing
Brunswick County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 3.6 ft per decade over 57 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Brunswick County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 24 ft below land surface. Readings span 1970-01-20 to 2026-07-06, 273 measurements from USGS well USGS-335631078003604 (Br-081 Nc-197 Southport Rs Peedee), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Brunswick County compares nationally
Brunswick County sits at rank 1265th of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. Brunswick County, North Carolina is home to about 167,112 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Brunswick County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Brunswick County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Brunswick County, that trend is real, not assumed: 3.6 ft per decade over 57 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Brunswick County can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.