How hard is the water in Jim Hogg County, TX?

0.8 grains per gallon

You do not need a softener here.

The median hardness measured in Jim Hogg County, TX is 13 mg/L as calcium carbonate, which is 0.8 gpg. That is soft on the USGS scale. It comes from 1 samples at 1 sites between 2013 and 2013, drawn from every sampling site in the county, wells and surface water together.

How much it varies here

Half the sites came in between 0.8 and 0.8 gpg. The whole middle of that range gives the same answer, so a test of your own tap is unlikely to change it. Confidence in the county figure: low (how it is measured).

What to do next

You can skip the softener. At 0.8 gpg the most a softener would fix is the odd water spot. If a salesperson in Jim Hogg County says otherwise, ask to see their reading in grains per gallon and compare it with this one.

More on when a softener is not worth it.

Jim Hogg County against the rest of Texas

Among the 217 Texas counties with data, Jim Hogg County is number 214 of 217 counting from the hardest. Across the whole country it is harder than 4% of counties.

Softest in Texas: Nacogdoches County at 0.3 gpg. Hardest: Ward County at 218.5 gpg. Closest to Jim Hogg County: Webb County (0.8), Rusk County (0.6), Orange County (1.1).