Oakboro, Town Of, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Oakboro, Town Of at a glance
Oakboro, Town Of serves about 3,173 people through 1,350 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Stanly County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0184020; phone on file: 704-485-3351. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2016 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oakboro, Town Of is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
Of the 1,925 North Carolina systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 75 have gone over at some point. Oakboro, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 66th percentile in North Carolina and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Stanly County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Oakboro, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albemarle, City Of | 17,506 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-West Stanly Dist | 9,939 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pfeiffer-N Stanly Water Assoc | 4,513 | 3 ppb |
| Norwood, Town Of | 4,323 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Aquadale Dist | 3,632 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Palestine-Badin Dist | 1,964 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Piney Point Dist | 1,013 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanfield #3-Polk Ford/Renee Ford | 854 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Millingport Dist | 709 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanfield #1-Biglick Rd | 302 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Oakboro, Town Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Oakboro, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.