Total bridges
576
Public highway bridges in Prince George's County
County profile · official public datasets
Prince George's County, MD
576 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 36.6% rated Good, 60.2% Fair, 3.1% Poor.
- 576
- Public bridges
- 36.6%
- Good condition
- 3.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Prince George's County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.
- Top 29%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 576
- public highway bridges
- 1976
- 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.
Prince George's County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Prince George's County ranks #7 of 24 Maryland counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.1%). Prince George's County, Maryland contains 576 public highway bridges. Roughly 36.6% are rated “Good,” 60.2% “Fair,” and 3.1% “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
36.6%
211 of 576 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.2%
347 of 576 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.1%
18 of 576 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#7 of 24
Among Maryland counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 576 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 36.6% (211)
Fair 60.2% (347)
Poor 3.1% (18)
Prince George's County's Poor-condition bridges carry 186,683 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 10,371 crossings a day against 35,515 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 576 of 576 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
53.6% of Prince George's County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
309 of the 576 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 36.6% 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 25% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MD 4 WBR over MD 717, built 1959, carries 46,652 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 186,683 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Prince George's County's bridges were built
576 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 3
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 24
1940–1949
24 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
96 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
133 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
58 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
62 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
66 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
73 bridges
- 2010s 33
2010–2019
33 bridges
- 2020s 11
2020–2029
11 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 133 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Maryland average (1972).
How Prince George's County compares with Maryland's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Maryland counties nearest Prince George's County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 23 Maryland counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore County | 783 | 29.9% | 66.9% | 3.2% | 1971 |
| Prince George's County (this page) | 576 | 36.6% | 60.2% | 3.1% | 1976 |
| Montgomery County | 515 | 38.8% | 56.3% | 4.9% | 1978 |
| Frederick County | 486 | 43.2% | 54.1% | 2.7% | 1971 |
| Anne Arundel County | 389 | 32.6% | 65.8% | 1.5% | 1980 |
| Baltimore city County | 374 | 16% | 75.4% | 8.6% | 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 Prince George's 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 Prince George's County, both outside Maryland so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MD (576 bridges here).
- Bergen County, NJ · 577 bridges
- Livingston County, IL · 579 bridges
- Reno County, KS · 573 bridges
- Iroquois County, IL · 570 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MD (1976 here).
- Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- New Castle County, DE · avg 1976 · 527 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (211)
TEMPLE HILL ROAD
GoodOver: TRIB TO HENSON CREEK
.11 MI S OF BRINKLEY ROAD, Prince George's, MD
Built 1964 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 16,823
HIL-MAR DRIVE
GoodOver: TRIBUTARY TO HENSON CREE
0.17 MI W OF WALTERS LANE, Prince George's, MD
Built 2008 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 996
BRINKLEY ROAD
GoodOver: TRIBUTARY TO HENSON CREE
0.15 MI W OF FISHER ROAD, Prince George's, MD
Built 2008 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 32,967
IRVINGTON STREET
GoodOver: BARNABY RUN
200 FEET S. OF OWENS ROAD, Prince George's, MD
Built 1958 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 5,389
BOHAC LANE
GoodOver: TRIB TO MATTAWOMAN CR
1.0 MI FROM MD 210, Prince George's, MD
Built 2000 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 1,185
JOHN ROGERS BLVD
GoodOver: TRIB TO FEDERAL SPRG BR
.2 MI N OLD MARLBORO PIKE, Prince George's, MD
Built 1993 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 4,850
KINGS MANOR DRIVE
GoodOver: NORTHEAST BRANCH
0.5 M EAST OF MD 193, Prince George's, MD
Built 1980 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 2,400
TRUMPS HILL ROAD
GoodOver: CHARLES BRANCH
0.09 MI S OF MD 382, Prince George's, MD
Built 2001 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 994
MD 200
GoodOver: Unnamed Stream
0.7 mi E OLD GUNPOWDER RD, Prince George's, MD
Built 2010 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 13,543
MD 200 EB TO 95 SB
GoodOver: Unnamed Stream
0.7 mi E Old Gunpowder Rd, Prince George's, MD
Built 2009 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 3,061
MD 200
GoodOver: AMMENDALE BRANCH
0.1 mi W OF KONTERRA Dr, Prince George's, MD
Built 2013 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 5,265
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