Wake County, NC Water Table Trend
Wake County, NC: what the water table is actually doing
Wake County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.3 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 99 measurements since 2001.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Wake County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 32.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 2001-07-03 to 2026-10-05, 99 measurements from USGS well USGS-354359078403104 (Wk-283 Lake Wheeler Rs Mw-2d Bedrock Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Wake County compares nationally
Wake County sits at rank 858th 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. Wake County, North Carolina is home to about 1,232,444 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Wake 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 Wake 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.