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Vermilion County, Illinois

41 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 58,420 people in Vermilion County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

41
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
3,428
Total violations Upper third of counties
78.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
25.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (4 tested) Middle third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL183 · Vermilion County 41 sys · 3,428 viol · #857/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 78.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 23.0% health
  • RANK-UPPER #857/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 78%
  • SYS-MID 41 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Peoria County (+ 0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Vermilion County ranks #857 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #23 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Vermilion County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 78.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 23.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #857 of 3,254 · #23 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Vermilion County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Clay · near Peoria · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 77.8% 77.8% 78% 78.3% 79.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Vermilion County

Cross-state counties nearest Vermilion County on flagged-system share (78.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,428). 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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