Pender County, NC Water Table Trend
Pender County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Pender County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.9 ft per decade over 24 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Pender County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 11.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 2002-09-11 to 2026-05-28, 17 measurements from USGS well USGS-342610077371401 (Pe-095 Mas 13 Nr Hampstead, Nc), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Pender County compares nationally
Pender County sits at rank 1053rd 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. Pender County, North Carolina is home to about 70,077 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Pender County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Pender County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Pender County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.9 ft per decade over 24 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Pender 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.