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)
135TH (EB) ST
FairOver: E BR DESPLAINES RVR
0.75 MI E.IL 53, Will, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 7,100
135TH ST/ROMEO RD
FairOver: S&SCANAL I&M BNSFRR
ROMEOVILLE, Will, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 14,200
OR-43 Material Roa
FairOver: DesPlaines River
.5M E of IL53, Will, IL
Built 1960 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 950
BASELINE ROAD
FairOver: INTERMODAL YARD LEAD
0.91 MI N/ARSENAL RD, Will, IL
Built 2010 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 8,900
US 45 52
FairOver: SMALL STREAM
3.4 M S OF US 52, Will, IL
Built 1968 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,700
ROWELL ROAD
FairOver: SUGAR RUN
0.2 MI SOUTH US-52, Will, IL
Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,400
RIDGELAND AVE
FairOver: STREAM
0.4 MI N. STUNKEL RD, Will, IL
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,450
WOLF RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
1 M N OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 1988 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 10,800
HIGH ROAD
FairOver: MINK CREEK
0.1 N. ILL. 171, Will, IL
Built 1967 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 1,450
BREEN RD
FairOver: JACKSON CRK BRANCH
1.5MI EAST ILL 53, Will, IL
Built 1923 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 200
WASHINGTON STREET
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
0.5 MI E OF US RTE 6, Will, IL
Built 1929 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 3,200
JOLIET RD (PEOTONE
FairOver: I- 57
11.2 M S OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 1967 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 950
BLODGETT RD
FairOver: GRANT CREEK
0.25 Mi West of I-55, Will, IL
Built 1961 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 600
IL 59
FairOver: DU PAGE RIVER
0.1 M S US 52, Will, IL
Built 1991 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 19,300
I- 55
FairOver: N BR GRANT CREEK
4.8 M S OF US 6, Will, IL
Built 1993 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 24,700
IL 7
FairOver: I-355
0.3 M W OF GOUGAR RD, Will, IL
Built 2007 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 22,200
BURVILLE RD
FairOver: PLUM CR
.2 E OF ILL 394, Will, IL
Built 1919 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 3,500
KENNEDY RD.
FairOver: FORKED CREEK
2.1 M W OF WIL. C RD, Will, IL
Built 1988 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 175
WEBER RD SB
FairOver: I- 55
2 M W OF VTRNS PKWY., Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 39,100
PAULING RD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
0.5 MI E OF ILL 50, Will, IL
Built 1977 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 4,600
I-355 NB
FairOver: I-55
1.3M S OF BOUGHTON, Will, IL
Built 1989 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 39,150
US 6
FairOver: SPRING CREEK
0.4 M E OF IL 171, Will, IL
Built 1926 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 11,600
I- 55 NB TO IL 113
FairOver: CLAY POOL CREEK
0.3 M NE OF I-55, Will, IL
Built 1960 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 700
US 6
FairOver: I- 55
2 M S OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 1989 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 15,700
I-355 NB & SB
FairOver: BN&SF RR
1M E OF JOLIET RD, Will, IL
Built 2008 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 39,150
SECOND AVENUE
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
0.5 MI E RICHARD ST, Will, IL
Built 1935 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 1,350
I- 80 EB
FairOver: IL 53
2.2 M E OF IL-7, Will, IL
Built 1967 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 22,650
IL 113
FairOver: I- 55
2.0 M S OF IL 129, Will, IL
Built 1956 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 11,100
I- 57 NB
FairOver: ABANDONED RR
12.8 M S OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 1967 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 14,400
US 52
FairOver: I- 55
2.4 M N OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 1956 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 20,000
HARLEM AVE
FairOver: I- 57
9.1 M S OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 1967 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 775
US 30
FairOver: RR - EJ&E
0.7 M E OF US 6, Will, IL
Built 1985 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 13,200
I-355 SB TO I-80 E
FairOver: I- 80
I-80 & I-355 INTERCH, Will, IL
Built 2007 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 18,200
EAGLE LAKE ROAD
FairOver: PLUM CREEK
1.8 MI W.IL 1, Will, IL
Built 1917 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 225
I- 55 NB
FairOver: RR - EJ&E
0.4 M N OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 1955 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 40,900
IL 53
FairOver: Kankakee River
0.1 M W OF IL 102, Will, IL
Built 1944 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 10,650
US 6
FairOver: I-355
0.9 M N OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 2007 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 13,300
FALCONRIDGE WAY
FairOver: LILY CACHE CREEK
1/4 MI S BOUGHTON RD, Will, IL
Built 1965 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 1,800
I-355 NB & SB
FairOver: INTERNATIONAL PRKY
1M E OF JOLIET RD, Will, IL
Built 2007 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 39,150
US 30
FairOver: SPRING CREEK
0.4 M E OF IL 171, Will, IL
Built 1984 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 15,900
US 52
FairOver: DU PAGE RIVER
0.2 M E OF IL 59, Will, IL
Built 1990 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 23,000
EAGLE LAKE ROAD
FairOver: ROCK CR
0.50 MI W OF IL-50, Will, IL
Built 1900 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 75
I- 55 SB
FairOver: RR - CSXT
0.8 M S OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 1994 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 32,350
MARLEY ROAD
FairOver: METRA RR
0.3 M NO OF US30, Will, IL
Built 1984 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 5,000
I- 80 WB
FairOver: I- 55
4 M E GRUNDY CO LIN, Will, IL
Built 1960 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 20,400
CATON FARM RD
FairOver: I- 55
3.0 M N OF US 52, Will, IL
Built 1958 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 18,100
IL 53
FairOver: SUGAR CREEK
0.5 S OF I-80, Will, IL
Built 1992 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 21,600
US 45
FairOver: JACKSON CREEK
2.7 M S OF US 30, Will, IL
Built 2008 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 7,300
West Briarcliff Ro
FairOver: Lily Cache Creek
.75 MI S Boughton Rd, Will, IL
Built 1972 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 2,100
US 6
FairOver: DU PAGE RIVER
1.8 M W OF I-55, Will, IL
Built 1940 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 17,100
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