Norfolk city, VA Water Table Trend
Norfolk city's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Norfolk city's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 11.9 ft per decade over 58 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Norfolk city's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 77.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1968-01-22 to 2026-04-14, 923 measurements from USGS well USGS-365223076122101 (61c 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Norfolk city compares nationally
Norfolk city sits at rank 1408th 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. Norfolk city, Virginia is home to about 231,105 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Norfolk city stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Norfolk city
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Norfolk city, that trend is real, not assumed: 11.9 ft per decade over 58 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Norfolk city 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.