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Jefferson County, Ohio

35 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 58,488 people in Jefferson County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

35
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
1,923
Total violations Middle third of counties
91.4%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
60.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (5 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet OH081 · Jefferson County 35 sys · 1,923 viol · #856/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 27.4% health
  • RANK-UPPER #856/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 60.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 86%
  • SYS-SMALL 35 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Coshocton County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Jefferson County ranks #856 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #41 of 88 counties in Ohio. See methodology · corpus placement.

Jefferson County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 27.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 60.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #856 of 3,254 · #41 of 88 in Ohio.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Jefferson County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Fayette · lowest Henry · near Coshocton · near Vinton · highest 78.6% 91.2% 91.3% 91.4% 91.4% 91.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Ohio

Lower-flagged peers for Jefferson County

Cross-state counties nearest Jefferson County on flagged-system share (91.4%) and cumulative violation count (1,923). 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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