Total bridges
44
Public highway bridges in Rockdale County
County profile · official public datasets
Rockdale County, GA
44 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 81.8% rated Good, 15.9% Fair, 2.3% Poor.
- 44
- Public bridges
- 81.8%
- Good condition
- 2.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Rockdale County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 122nd
- of 159 on Poor share
- 2.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 44
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Rockdale County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Rockdale County ranks #122 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.3%). Rockdale County, Georgia contains 44 public highway bridges. Roughly 81.8% are rated “Good,” 15.9% “Fair,” and 2.3% “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.
Good condition
81.8%
36 of 44 rated 7-9
Fair condition
15.9%
7 of 44 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.3%
1 of 44 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#122 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 44 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 81.8% (36)
Fair 15.9% (7)
Poor 2.3% (1)
Rockdale County's Poor-condition bridges carry 45,600 vehicle crossings a day
That is 9.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 45,600 crossings a day against 9,704 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 44 of 44 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
43.2% of Rockdale County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
19 of the 44 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 81.8% 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
SR 20 over I-20, built 1963, carries 45,600 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 45,600 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Rockdale County's bridges were built
44 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
9 bridges
- 1970s 4
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 13 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Rockdale County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Rockdale County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawson County | 45 | 68.9% | 28.9% | 2.2% | 1970 |
| Miller County | 45 | 77.8% | 22.2% | 0% | 1977 |
| Twiggs County | 45 | 75.6% | 24.4% | 0% | 1971 |
| Bacon County | 44 | 81.8% | 15.9% | 2.3% | 1976 |
| Pulaski County | 44 | 84.1% | 15.9% | 0% | 1971 |
| Rockdale County (this page) | 44 | 81.8% | 15.9% | 2.3% | 1979 |
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 Rockdale 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 Rockdale County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (44 bridges here).
- Archuleta County, CO · 44 bridges
- Wallace County, KS · 44 bridges
- Trimble County, KY · 44 bridges
- Kent County, MD · 44 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 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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