Citrus County, FL Water Table Trend
Citrus County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Citrus County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 60 years of readings.
One well stands in for Citrus County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 2.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1965-09-01 to 2025-11-14, 287 measurements from USGS well USGS-284551082345301 (Homosassa Well 3 Near Homosassa Fl), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Citrus County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Citrus County ranks 696th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 170,174 people live in Citrus County, Florida. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Citrus County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Citrus County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.