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Grundy County, IL

269 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.5% rated Good, 32.7% Fair, 26.8% Poor.

269
Public bridges: 40.5%
Good condition: 26.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Grundy 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.

102nd
of 102 on Poor share: 26.8%
Poor-condition share: 269
public highway bridges: 1984
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.

Grundy County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Grundy County ranks #102 of 102 Illinois counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 26.8%). Grundy County, Illinois contains 269 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.5% are rated “Good,” 32.7% “Fair,” and 26.8% “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

269

Public highway bridges in Grundy County

Good condition

40.5%

109 of 269 rated 7-9

Fair condition

32.7%

88 of 269 rated 5-6

Poor condition

26.8%

72 of 269 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#102 of 102

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

Condition distribution

Share of 269 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

40.5% (109)

Fair

32.7% (88)

Poor

26.8% (72)

Grundy County's Poor-condition bridges carry 88,350 vehicle crossings a day

That is 13.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 26.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,227 crossings a day against 2,660 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 268 of 269 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

20.4% of Grundy County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

55 of the 269 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 40.5% 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 23.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

ILL 47 over ARMSTRONG & B & O RR, built 1978, carries 21,000 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 72-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 88,350 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

6
1930s

5
1940s

2
1950s

19
1960s

15
1970s

50
1980s

70
1990s

38
2000s

37
2010s

24
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 70 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1984, 5 years newer than the Illinois average of 1979.

How Grundy County compares with Illinois's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Illinois counties nearest Grundy County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 26.8% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 101 Illinois counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Grundy County and the 5 Illinois counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Edgar County	278	50.7%	45.3%	4%	1977
Rock Island County	272	46%	49.3%	4.8%	1983
Grundy County (this page)	269	40.5%	32.7%	26.8%	1984
Wayne County	266	54.1%	36.8%	9%	1982
DeKalb County	261	40.6%	46.4%	13%	1981
Montgomery County	261	52.1%	40.6%	7.3%	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 Grundy 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 Grundy County, both outside Illinois so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside IL (269 bridges here).

Bartholomew County, IN · 269 bridges
Rensselaer County, NY · 269 bridges
Harrison County, TX · 269 bridges
Manitowoc County, WI · 269 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside IL (1984 here).

Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges

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

All 269 Good 109 Fair 88 Poor 72

Good-condition bridges (109)

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Grundy County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Grundy County's Poor-condition bridges carry 88,350 vehicle crossings a day

20.4% of Grundy County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 23.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Grundy County compares with Illinois's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (109)

SCULLY RD TR 165A

WAVERLY STREET

GOODFARM RD

GORE RD

TR 107A

TR 165 SCULLY ROAD

TR 136

TR 74 Verona Road

SCULLY RD TR 165

TR159A STONEWALL R

FAI-55 & OR 66

INDIAN TRAIL RD

GRANDRIDGE RD CH C

GARDNER Rd/FAS 292

CH 37 Livingston

TR 17(FR)

US 6

DUPONT RD/FAS 1273

TR 40 SWELL RD

TR 8 KINSMAN RD

FAS 292/GARDNER RD

IL 47 FAP 326

TR-84 Ward Road

TR 1E (LIV.CO.TR)

TR 152 GORMAN RD

CH 16C(SHERRILL RD

TR 174 TABLER RD

BRISBIN RD FAU401

CH V16 (Dwight Rd.

FILMAN RD TR-142

I-55 SB

I-55 NB

FAS 272

ASHLEY RD/FAU 5974

ILL 53

LOWERY RD CH-7

FAI 80 EBL

TR-174 Tabler Road

CH41 (GRANDRIDGE R

Lisbon Rd (FAU 596

IL 47

PRICE ST

US 6 FAU 5952

ILL 47

TR 147

FAS-272 Braceville

FAI 080 (EB & WB)

FAI 80 (EB & WB)

ILL 47 FAP326

TR-51 Kinsman Rd

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