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Bradford County, FL

75 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.7% rated Good, 48% Fair, 5.3% Poor.

75
Public bridges: 46.7%
Good condition: 5.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Bradford County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

50th
of 67 on Poor share: 5.3%
Poor-condition share: 75
public highway bridges: 1976
avg year built

Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.

Bradford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bradford County ranks #50 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.3%). Bradford County, Florida contains 75 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.7% are rated “Good,” 48% “Fair,” and 5.3% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.

Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Bradford County

Good condition

46.7%

35 of 75 rated 7-9

Fair condition

48%

36 of 75 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.3%

4 of 75 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#50 of 67

Among Florida counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 75 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46.7% (35)

Fair

48% (36)

Poor

5.3% (4)

Bradford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,033 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 508 crossings a day against 8,543 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 73 of 75 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

58.7% of Bradford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

44 of the 75 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 46.7% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.

Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

One structure carries 78.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR 225 over WATER OAK CREEK, built 1950, carries 1,600 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 2,033 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1940s

15
1950s

9
1960s

17
1970s

5
1980s

4
1990s

6
2000s

3
2010s

13
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 17 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1976, 7 years older than the Florida average of 1983.

How Bradford County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Florida counties nearest Bradford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.3% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 66 Florida counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Bradford County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Marion County	78	52.6%	44.9%	2.6%	1979
Liberty County	77	19.5%	66.2%	14.3%	1974
Bradford County (this page)	75	46.7%	48%	5.3%	1976
Levy County	73	39.7%	57.5%	2.7%	1973
Putnam County	73	45.2%	52.1%	2.7%	1979
Jefferson County	70	30%	67.1%	2.9%	1976

Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Bradford County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Two NBI-derived peer sets for Bradford County, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (75 bridges here).

Washington County, CO · 75 bridges
Toombs County, GA · 75 bridges
McLean County, KY · 75 bridges
Mercer County, KY · 75 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1976 here).

Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 75 Good 35 Fair 36 Poor 4

Fair-condition bridges (36)

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Bradford County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Bradford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,033 vehicle crossings a day

58.7% of Bradford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 78.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Bradford County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (36)

NW 216TH STREET

NW 216TH ST

CR 225A

NW 216TH STREET

CR 18

CR 225

CR 235

CR 225

CR 18

NW 22ND AVE

SR-18

SR-100

SR-100

CR 18

CR 325

CR 18

CR 235

NW CR 125

SR-100

US-301 (SR-200)

NE 30th Place

CR 231

CR 233

SR-16

US-301 (SR-200)

CR 233

CR 231

SR-18

US-301 (SR-200)

CR 200B

US-301 (SR-200)

US-301 (SR-200)

CR 18

CR 18

CR 18

CR 229

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