Total bridges
107
Public highway bridges in Habersham County
County profile · official public datasets
Habersham County, GA
107 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 77.6% rated Good, 21.5% Fair, 0.9% Poor.
- 107
- Public bridges
- 77.6%
- Good condition
- 0.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Habersham County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 48%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 107
- public highway bridges
- 1974
- 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.
Habersham County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Habersham County ranks #77 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.9%). Habersham County, Georgia contains 107 public highway bridges. Roughly 77.6% are rated “Good,” 21.5% “Fair,” and 0.9% “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
77.6%
83 of 107 rated 7-9
Fair condition
21.5%
23 of 107 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.9%
1 of 107 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#77 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 107 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 77.6% (83)
Fair 21.5% (23)
Poor 0.9% (1)
Habersham County's Poor-condition bridges carry 110 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 110 crossings a day against 6,696 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 107 of 107 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
48.6% of Habersham County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
52 of the 107 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 77.6% 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.
One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
TUGALO CUT THROUGH over LITTLE PANTHER CREEK, built 1941, carries 110 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 110 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Habersham County's bridges were built
107 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
13 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
14 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
22 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
18 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
22 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Habersham County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Habersham County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.9% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell County | 111 | 86.5% | 11.7% | 1.8% | 1971 |
| Fannin County | 107 | 36.4% | 61.7% | 1.9% | 1980 |
| Ware County | 107 | 74.8% | 24.3% | 0.9% | 1979 |
| Habersham County (this page) | 107 | 77.6% | 21.5% | 0.9% | 1974 |
| Brooks County | 104 | 68.3% | 27.9% | 3.8% | 1970 |
| Grady County | 104 | 93.3% | 5.8% | 1% | 1982 |
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 Habersham 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 Habersham County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (107 bridges here).
- Magoffin County, KY · 107 bridges
- Barnstable County, MA · 107 bridges
- Mille Lacs County, MN · 107 bridges
- Luna County, NM · 107 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1974 here).
- Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
- Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (1)
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