Hudson County, NJ Water Table Trend
Hudson County, NJ: what the water table is actually doing
Hudson County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.6 ft per decade over 21 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Hudson County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 7.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 2004-03-31 to 2025-06-03, 7 measurements from USGS well USGS-404636074024701 (170016-- Mw147), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Hudson County compares nationally
Hudson County sits at rank 163rd 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. Hudson County, New Jersey is home to about 736,185 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Hudson County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Hudson 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.