In Craven County, North Carolina, which covers New Bern, we have measured 20,223 parcels on septic and 15,673 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for New Bern on its own and this page does not estimate one.
New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 35.096688, -77.072641 and its land area at 28.69 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Craven County | none held | 20,223 | 15,673 | county portal | no account needed |
We have not yet collected septic documents from Craven County, North Carolina, so for a New Bern property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 20,223 of 35,896 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a New Bern address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Craven County, North Carolina, which covers New Bern, we have measured 20,223 parcels on septic and 15,673 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for New Bern on its own and this page does not estimate one.
New Bern is in Craven County, North Carolina.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of New Bern’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of New Bern.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Craven County, North Carolina.