What Tap Water Costs, State by State · Texas Below Average
The average American household paid about $531 for drinking water in 2025, but the range is wide. West Virginia is far above everyone at roughly $1,400 — its average has nearly doubled since 2015 — followed by Pennsylvania ($830), Alaska ($785) and Oregon ($757). Texas is $454, below the national average and barely a third of West Virginia. The lowest are Idaho ($286) and South Carolina ($307).
Why this matters for B2B
Water shows up twice in a wholesaler's world. It is an operating cost for anyone who washes, cools or irrigates — commercial kitchens, car washes, nurseries, laundries, any plant with a cooling loop — and it is a household bill that quietly decides how much is left over for everything else. A state where utilities run high is a state where discretionary goods have to work harder to sell. Read alongside income left after bills by state and the Texas market.
Source: Food & Water Watch, as published by Visual Capitalist, 2025. Estimates are for a household using 60,000 gallons a year, drawn from the 500 largest U.S. community water systems, and exclude sewer and stormwater charges. No figure is published for Wyoming or Vermont; West Virginia is published rounded to $1.4K. Chart built by Cube-Age from the published figures; the original infographic was not reproduced.