Total bridges
649
Public highway bridges in Will County
County profile · official public datasets
Will County, IL
649 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.1% rated Good, 46.4% Fair, 10.5% Poor.
- 649
- Public bridges
- 43.1%
- Good condition
- 10.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Will County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.
- 76th
- of 102 on Poor share
- 10.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 649
- 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.
Will County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Will County ranks #76 of 102 Illinois counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.5%). Will County, Illinois contains 649 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.1% are rated “Good,” 46.4% “Fair,” and 10.5% “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
43.1%
280 of 649 rated 7-9
Fair condition
46.4%
301 of 649 rated 5-6
Poor condition
10.5%
68 of 649 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#76 of 102
Among Illinois counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 649 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 43.1% (280)
Fair 46.4% (301)
Poor 10.5% (68)
Will County's Poor-condition bridges carry 825,585 vehicle crossings a day
That is 13% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 12,141 crossings a day against 7,646 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 647 of 649 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33% of Will County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
214 of the 649 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 43.1% 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 12.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
I- 55 over IL 53, built 1980, carries 106,200 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 68-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 825,585 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Will County's bridges were built
649 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 13
1900–1909
13 bridges
- 1910s 7
1910–1919
7 bridges
- 1920s 16
1920–1929
16 bridges
- 1930s 17
1930–1939
17 bridges
- 1940s 12
1940–1949
12 bridges
- 1950s 38
1950–1959
38 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
90 bridges
- 1970s 41
1970–1979
41 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
87 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
119 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
132 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
60 bridges
- 2020s 16
2020–2029
16 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 132 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1983) matches the Illinois average (1979).
How Will County compares with Illinois's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Illinois counties nearest Will County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 101 Illinois counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champaign County | 727 | 58.9% | 32.5% | 8.7% | 1982 |
| Will County (this page) | 649 | 43.1% | 46.4% | 10.5% | 1983 |
| McLean County | 624 | 60.9% | 36.2% | 2.9% | 1981 |
| Livingston County | 579 | 51.8% | 39.9% | 8.3% | 1978 |
| Iroquois County | 570 | 46.5% | 39.1% | 14.4% | 1980 |
| LaSalle County | 528 | 39.4% | 48.3% | 12.3% | 1978 |
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 Will 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 Will County, both outside Illinois so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside IL (649 bridges here).
- San Joaquin County, CA · 644 bridges
- Washington County, PA · 655 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · 641 bridges
- Alameda County, CA · 658 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside IL (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
- Bernalillo County, NM · avg 1983 · 496 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (649)
QUIGLEY RD.
FairOver: JORDAN CREEK
0.8M E.OLD CHICAGORD, Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
ALLOTT DRIVE
FairOver: JORDAN CREEK
1.7M E IL 53, Will, IL
Built 1995 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250
BARR ROAD
FairOver: TRIB OF JORDAN CREEK
0.4 MI N E KAHLER RD, Will, IL
Built 1998 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 200
WILTON RD.
FairOver: STREAM
1.8 MI S US 52, Will, IL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
WILTON RD. (128TH
FairOver: S.BR.FORKED CREEK
3.7 MI SO US 52, Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
GOUGAR ROAD
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
0.9 MI S WIL PECT RD, Will, IL
Built 1991 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20
GOUGAR ROAD
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
O.4M S WIL-PEOTO RD, Will, IL
Built 1993 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
TR-287 (Barr Rd)
FairOver: Forked Creek
0.5M W WILTON CENTRD, Will, IL
Built 1993 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
GOUGAR ROAD
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
0.2 M S WILM-PEOT RD, Will, IL
Built 1994 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20
PEOTONE RD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
1 MI W.PEOTONE, Will, IL
Built 1977 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 500
W North Peotone Rd
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
1 MI N PEOTONE, Will, IL
Built 1979 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,550
CENTER ROAD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
0.6 MI NO. KKK ROAD, Will, IL
Built 1979 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,050
EAGLE LAKE RD.
FairOver: S.BRANCH FORKED CR.
0.8 MI E CENTER RD., Will, IL
Built 1980 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
PEOTONE RD
FairOver: S BR FORKED CR
0.2 MI S OFFNER RD, Will, IL
Built 1982 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 500
KENNEDY ROAD
FairOver: BLACK WALNUT CRK
.7M E of IL50, Will, IL
Built 1984 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 350
BARR ROAD
FairOver: S.BR.OF FORKED CREEK
0.4MI E. OF US45, Will, IL
Built 1985 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
KENNEDY RD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
2.3 MI E US 45, Will, IL
Built 1985 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 125
FAS-6859 (Grn Gard
FairOver: S Br Forked Creek
1.2N KANKAKEE CO, Will, IL
Built 1992 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
KEDZIE AVE
FairOver: EXLINE SLOUGH
0.50 MI N KENNEDY RD, Will, IL
Built 1983 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 200
KENNEDY RD
FairOver: MARSHALL SLOUGH
2.5M.E.OF IL-50, Will, IL
Built 1988 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 350
EAGLE LAKE RD.
FairOver: BLACK WALNUT CR.(W)
1.9 M E OF IL 50, Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 225
CENTRAL AVE.
FairOver: S.BR.ROCK CREEK
0.2M.N.OF WILL-KKK L, Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 200
KENNEDY RD(319TH S
FairOver: EXLINE SLOUGH
0.4M.E OF KEDZIE AVE, Will, IL
Built 1991 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
HARLEM RD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
1.8 M N PEOTONE, Will, IL
Built 1992 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 775
CRAWFORD AVE
FairOver: BLK WAL CR
1.4 M.SOF PAULIGG RD, Will, IL
Built 1993 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35
WESTERN AV
FairOver: TRIB EXLINE SLOUGH
0.7 MI N KKK CO LINE, Will, IL
Built 1999 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
CORNING ROAD
FairOver: EX LINE SLOUGH
.25 M E KEDZIE, Will, IL
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
KENTUCKY RD
FairOver: PIKE CREEK
1.9 MI.E.IL 1, Will, IL
Built 1978 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 225
319TH ST
FairOver: TRIM CREEK
0.9 MI.W.IL 1, Will, IL
Built 1980 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
323RD ST
FairOver: PIKE CREEK
1.7 MI E.IL 1, Will, IL
Built 1983 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35
YATES AVENUE
FairOver: TRIM CREEK
0.1 MI N.EAGLE LK RD, Will, IL
Built 1992 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 500
LEASURE RD.
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
100 NO OF IL 102, Will, IL
Built 1987 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
DANIELSON ROAD
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
0.8M N OF MANTERO RD, Will, IL
Built 1989 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
HAZELTON (BELL) RD
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
0.2 MI E LONG RD, Will, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 25
RIVER CROSSING DRI
FairOver: DUPAGE RIVER
0.7M N OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 2003 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 175
119TH STREET
FairOver: EAST NORMAN DRAIN
0.1 M W OF IL 59, Will, IL
Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 11,400
KILDEER DR
FairOver: LILY CACHE CREEK
0.4 MI S/BOUGHTON RD, Will, IL
Built 2013 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,950
ROYCE RD
FairOver: E BR DUPAGE RIVER
0.1 MI W. OF ILL 53, Will, IL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 6,350
ESSINGTON ROAD
FairOver: LILY CACHE CREEK
0.5 MI S 127TH ST, Will, IL
Built 2001 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,200
127TH ST
FairOver: LILY CACHE CREEK
1.2 MI W I-55, Will, IL
Built 2001 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 5,650
CATON FARM ROAD.
FairOver: EJ&E RR
0.7 MI. E.OF US30, Will, IL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 5,950
ELWOOD INTL PORT R
FairOver: JACKSON CREEK
0.5 M S ARSENAL RD, Will, IL
Built 2002 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 8,050
REBECCA RD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY ROCK RUN
100 FT S DEERPATH DR, Will, IL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
FAIRLANE DRIVE
FairOver: TRIBUTARY ROCK RUN
200 FT N CAMBELL ST, Will, IL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 650
BROADWAY ST
FairOver: JEFFERSON ST
.1M W DESPLAINES RIV, Will, IL
Built 1991 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,300
INFANTRY DR
FairOver: ROCK RUN CREEK TRIB
0.35M N OF JEFFERSON, Will, IL
Built 1996 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 8,100
DRAUDEN ROAD
FairOver: UNNAMED STREAM
0.25M N. CATON FARM, Will, IL
Built 1996 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 6,800
N. CEDAR ROAD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
0.05 M N. OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 7,800
135TH EB
FairOver: W BR DESPLAINES RV
0.4 MI E IL 53, Will, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 7,100
135TH EB ROMEOVILL
FairOver: W BR DESPLAINES RV
0.46 MI E IL 53, Will, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 7,100
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