Total bridges
79
Public highway bridges in Barrow County
County profile · official public datasets
Barrow County, GA
79 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 69.6% rated Good, 30.4% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 79
- Public bridges
- 69.6%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Barrow County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 13%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 79
- public highway bridges
- 1983
- 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.
Barrow County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Barrow County ranks #21 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Barrow County, Georgia contains 79 public highway bridges. Roughly 69.6% are rated “Good,” 30.4% “Fair,” and 0% “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.
Good condition
69.6%
55 of 79 rated 7-9
Fair condition
30.4%
24 of 79 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 79 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#21 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 79 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 69.6% (55)
Fair 30.4% (24)
Poor 0% (0)
38% of Barrow County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
30 of the 79 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 69.6% 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.
When Barrow County's bridges were built
79 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
16 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
9 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
14 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
19 bridges
- 2000s 6
2000–2009
6 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1983, 6 years newer than the Georgia average of 1977.
How Barrow County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Barrow County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berrien County | 81 | 79% | 21% | 0% | 1972 |
| Fayette County | 81 | 71.6% | 24.7% | 3.7% | 1986 |
| Burke County | 80 | 73.8% | 21.3% | 5% | 1974 |
| Barrow County (this page) | 79 | 69.6% | 30.4% | 0% | 1983 |
| Bryan County | 78 | 67.9% | 32.1% | 0% | 1979 |
| Macon County | 78 | 76.9% | 23.1% | 0% | 1977 |
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 Barrow 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 Barrow County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (79 bridges here).
- Cleveland County, AR · 79 bridges
- Woodruff County, AR · 79 bridges
- Edwards County, IL · 79 bridges
- Grant County, KY · 79 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1983 here).
- Dallas County, TX · avg 1983 · 3,230 bridges
- Bexar County, TX · avg 1983 · 2,342 bridges
- Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
- Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.