Septic work is priced by three things everywhere: what the job is, what your soil forces the system to be, and how far the truck has to drive. This is the index to what each job actually costs — state by state, Texas first, with more states as our surveys complete — and every figure traced to a named, dated source — and an honest note wherever no trustworthy number exists yet.
More guides are in production: new system installation, aerobic system cost and lifetime maintenance, drain field repair, and inspection pricing. Each one ships only when its numbers can be sourced and dated.
Why our numbers look different
We publish the source and the date beside every figure, and we say so when a number does not exist. Most septic pricing content online blends unattributed ranges into a single confident-looking number. Where we cannot verify a figure — Austin and DFW city-level pumping prices, emergency call premiums — the page says exactly that instead of guessing.
Cost is also local in a way national averages hide. Texas counties authorized 42,097 septic systems in 2024, and 57% of them used surface spray irrigation, which requires an aerobic treatment unit and an ongoing maintenance contract (TCEQ OSSF annual reporting data, parsed July 30, 2026). In counties where soils force that design, your lifetime cost is set on install day. County pages carry the local picture.
Before you accept any quote
Check the license first, then the price. Every legitimate septic professional in Texas holds a TCEQ license or registration you can verify online in under two minutes; our directory checks all 8,975 current OSSF license holders against that registry. Ask for itemized quotes — base work, disposal, access or digging, add-ons, trip fees — because a single round number is where surprises hide.
An aerobic septic system in Texas costs $9,000–$20,000 installed in 2026, the span of published Texas price series (Dillon Septic’s general and aerobic-specific pages; Angi), and $17,000–$26,000 all-in once site evaluation, design, county permits, and the first year’s required maintenance contract are counted (Dillon Septic, Feb 2026). That’s roughly 1.5–2× a conventional system, and the […]
Ohio publishes no price series for drain field repair, so every Ohio-specific figure online is borrowed from somewhere else. Every dated range for the work itself is a national estimate: $1,000 to $5,000 for repair short of replacement and $3,000 to $15,000 for a full leach field replacement (HomeGuide, written December 22, 2025). What Ohio […]
This bill has two halves that behave nothing alike. The permitting is priced in public: $200 to $850 on the Pennsylvania schedules below, depending on whether the work reaches the absorption area. The digging is not. No Pennsylvania contractor, county agency or DEP document publishes a dated price series for it, so every excavation figure […]
Repairing a failing drain field in Texas costs $1,000 to $5,000 for the most common fixes, while replacing the field outright runs $5,000 to $20,000, per published 2026 pricing from Texas installers 1 Source Water Well & Septic (Montgomery County, updated April 2026) and Dillon Septic (Spring Branch, January 2026). The EPA’s 2026 guidance puts […]
No Ohio septic installer publishes a price list for new systems, so the only Ohio-specific numbers you can check yourself are the government ones. Across seven Ohio local health districts that publish their own fee schedules, the site review plus the installation permit for a new household sewage treatment system runs from $511 in Perry […]
A new septic system in Pennsylvania costs roughly $4,000 to $45,000 installed, and the system type your soil forces on you moves that number more than anything else. Robinson Landscape, covering Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties plus Philadelphia, publishes $4,000 to $12,000 conventional and $10,000 to $20,000 or more for a sand mound or […]
A complete new septic system in Texas typically costs $8,500 to $14,000 installed, per 2026 published pricing from Central Texas installer Dillon Septic. Basic conventional systems start near $6,000, and aerobic systems run $9,000 to $20,000 across published 2026 price series. Metro averages from Angi’s 2026 customer cost data land inside that band: $6,720 in […]
Ohio homeowners pay $50 to $550 for a septic inspection, and the biggest variable is not the tank. It is whether the local health district does the inspection itself, lets a registered private company do it, or requires none at all. Where the district does the work, the fee is published: $375 in Summit County, […]
A septic inspection in Pennsylvania costs $350 to $700 with the tank unpumped, and $625 to $1,200 when pumping is part of the job, according to Penn State Extension’s on-lot inspection guidance updated March 11, 2026. Integra Home Inspections publishes a flat $375 inside that range; Chester County Septic starts at $450. The numbers behind […]
A standalone septic inspection in Texas averages $510 (Angi’s state-level 2026 data), with routine checkups at $200–$250 and buyer-grade real-estate inspections at $400–$700 nationally. Houston-area provider pricing ranges from $250–$600 depending on the depth of the workup. One widely miscopied number: the EPA’s $250–$500 covers the combined inspect-and-pump maintenance visit every three to five years, […]
Pumping a septic tank in Ohio costs between $250 and $650 for most homes. Two Ohio companies publish flat rates rather than ranges: a 1,000-gallon pump-out is $325 at both Walt Kucharski Septic Service in Northeast Ohio and A & B Sanitation in the Columbus area (both price lists accessed August 10, 2026). Around Dayton, […]
A routine septic pump-out in Pennsylvania costs about $360 to $475 in Lancaster County and $470 to $615 in Chester County, according to Sonlight Services’ dated 2026 price posts (March and April 2026), a DEP-registered hauler that publishes its numbers. In Bucks County, Camerlengo Septic quotes $300 to $500 for a 1,000-gallon tank (July 2025). […]
Pumping a standard 1,000-gallon septic tank in Texas costs $225 to $650 in 2026, the full span of the four published price series cited here: Angi’s Dallas data ($225–$400 for that tank size), Angi Austin ($250–$600), Angi Houston ($275–$600), and Hill Country provider pricing from Dillon Septic ($350–$650). City averages differ more than most homeowners […]
A complete septic tank riser kit costs $145 to $395 in 2026, depending on diameter and height, and the sizes most Texas tanks need land between $170 and $275 (Tuf-Tite kits at Wholesale Septic Supply; Polylok packages at Septic Solutions, both priced in August 2026). Professional installation adds roughly $200 to $400 in labor (Angi, […]
A salt-based water softener installation costs $1,200 to $3,800, averaging $2,500 (HomeGuide, 2026), and labor is small: $150 for a straightforward swap and two to four hours of a plumber’s day. Most of the price is the unit, and the unit’s price is set by grain capacity. Which capacity is right is a sizing question, […]
Well drilling is priced by the foot, at $25 to $80 per foot depending on who you ask and what the drill hits, and a finished residential well most often lands between $3,000 and $16,000. The spread is not vagueness. It is depth, rock, and what the quote includes: a number that covers only the […]
Well pump repair costs $100 to $3,000 depending on which part failed, and a full pump replacement averages $1,898 nationally, with most homeowners paying $975 to $2,821 (Angi, August 2026, based on 1,339 verified projects). The failed part decides which end of that range applies: a pressure switch is a $120–$200 fix, while a submersible […]
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