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Wayne County, GA

83 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 85.5% rated Good, 13.3% Fair, 1.2% Poor.

83
Public bridges: 85.5%
Good condition: 1.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

89th
of 159 on Poor share: 1.2%
Poor-condition share: 83
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.

Wayne County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wayne County ranks #89 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.2%). Wayne County, Georgia contains 83 public highway bridges. Roughly 85.5% are rated “Good,” 13.3% “Fair,” and 1.2% “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 Wayne County

Good condition

85.5%

71 of 83 rated 7-9

Fair condition

13.3%

11 of 83 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.2%

1 of 83 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#89 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 83 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

85.5% (71)

Fair

13.3% (11)

Poor

1.2% (1)

Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,800 vehicle crossings a day

That is 8.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 17,800 crossings a day against 2,355 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 83 of 83 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

48.2% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

40 of the 83 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 85.5% 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

US 84 (WBL) over LITTLE MCMILLAN CREEK, built 1957, carries 17,800 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 17,800 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

1
1950s

9
1960s

6
1970s

34
1980s

4
1990s

6
2000s

12
2010s

8
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 41% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1983, 6 years newer than the Georgia average of 1977.

How Wayne County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 8 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wayne County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Early County	85	92.9%	7.1%	0%	1979
Elbert County	84	69%	26.2%	4.8%	1971
Glynn County	84	66.7%	32.1%	1.2%	1976
Paulding County	84	71.4%	28.6%	0%	1987
Wayne County (this page)	83	85.5%	13.3%	1.2%	1983
Murray County	82	32.9%	50%	17.1%	1964

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 Wayne 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 Wayne County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (83 bridges here).

Desha County, AR · 83 bridges
Little River County, AR · 83 bridges
Boundary County, ID · 83 bridges
Waseca County, MN · 83 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.

All 83 Good 71 Fair 11 Poor 1

All bridges (83)

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Wayne County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,800 vehicle crossings a day

48.2% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Wayne County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (83)

ODUM ROAD

US 25 (EBL)

CR 72

GARDI ROAD

COWBOY ROAD

BRENTWOOD ROAD

BRENTWOOD ROAD

SHED ROAD

DENT ROAD

RIVER ROAD

K-VILLE ROAD

US 84 (WBL)

US 84 (WBL)

US 84 (EBL)

US 84 (EBL)

NEW HOPE CH. ROAD

US341

DIXIE ROAD

US 341

STANFIELD ROAD

FD ODUM SR MEM BR

HOLMESVILLE ROAD

NINE RUN ROAD

NINE RUN ROAD

SR 203

WALTER GRIFFIS ROA

CR 89

SR 169

WOODS BRIDGE ROAD

SR 169

K-VILLE ROAD

MICHAEL LAKE ROAD

US 84 (WBL)

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