New Hanover County, NC Water Table Trend
New Hanover County, NC: what the water table is actually doing
New Hanover County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 23 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
New Hanover County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 9.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 2003-02-12 to 2026-05-28, 14 measurements from USGS well USGS-341346077522601 (Nh-989 Mas 4 Nr Wilmington, Nc Castle Hayne), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How New Hanover County compares nationally
New Hanover County sits at rank 536th 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. New Hanover County, North Carolina is home to about 243,333 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how New Hanover 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 New Hanover 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.