How hard is the water in Sabine County, TX?
0.3 grains per gallon
You do not need a softener here.
The median hardness measured in Sabine County, TX is 5 mg/L as calcium carbonate, which is 0.3 gpg. That is soft on the USGS scale. It comes from 1 samples at 1 sites between 2004 and 2004, drawn from every sampling site in the county, wells and surface water together.
How much it varies here
Half the sites came in between 0.3 and 0.3 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 0.3 gpg the most a softener would fix is the odd water spot. If a salesperson in Sabine 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.
Sabine County against the rest of Texas
Among the 217 Texas counties with data, Sabine County is number 216 of 217 counting from the hardest. Across the whole country it is harder than 0% of counties.
Softest in Texas: Nacogdoches County at 0.3 gpg. Hardest: Ward County at 218.5 gpg. Closest to Sabine County: Nacogdoches County (0.3), Rusk County (0.6), Jim Hogg County (0.8).