County profile · EPA SDWIS + UCMR5
Houghton County, Michigan
46 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 33,702 people in Houghton County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.
- 46
- SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
- 1,247
- Total violations Middle third of counties
- 82.6%
- SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
- 0.0%
- UCMR5 PFAS rate (4 tested) Lower third of counties with tests
SDWIS compliance plate
Sheet MI061 · Houghton County 46 sys · 1,247 viol · #1257/3254
VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL
- VIOL-SEVERE 82.6% flagged
- HEALTH-MID 20.0% health
- RANK-UPPER #1257/3254
- PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
- PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
- SRC-GW GW lead 100%
- SYS-MID 46 systems
- BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields
Nearest flagged-rate peer: Leelanau County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)
According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Houghton County ranks #1,257 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #41 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.
Houghton County standing, lower-flagged corpus third
Flagged-system rate 82.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 20.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,257 of 3,254 · #41 of 83 in Michigan.
Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Houghton County
Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Houghton County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.
Water Systems
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Lower-flagged peers for Houghton County
Cross-state counties nearest Houghton County on flagged-system share (82.6%) and cumulative violation count (1,247). 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.
Similar violation load
Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).
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