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Davidson County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC057 · Davidson County 8 sys · 871 viol · #321/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 21.7% health
  • RANK-TOP #321/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Franklin County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Davidson County ranks #321 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #11 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Davidson County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 21.7% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #321 of 3,254 · #11 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Davidson County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Davidson County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Franklin · near Mitchell · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 87.5% 87.7% 87.8% 88% 88.2% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Davidson Water Inc 153,632 57 Clean
Thomasville, City Of 27,287 39 Detected
Lexington, City Of 19,595 88 Clean
Handy Sanitary District 9,548 244 Detected
Denton, Town Of 1,710 321 -
Rocklyn Subdivision Phase 2 197 38 -
Newsom MHP Campground 74 84 -
Hagan Sea Base 50 0 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Davidson County

Cross-state counties nearest Davidson County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (871). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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