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Hennepin County, MN

936 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.6% rated Good, 55.3% Fair, 4.1% Poor.

936
Public bridges
40.6%
Good condition
4.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hennepin County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.

44th
of 87 on Poor share
4.1%
Poor-condition share
936
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.

Hennepin County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hennepin County ranks #44 of 87 Minnesota counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.1%). Hennepin County, Minnesota contains 936 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.6% are rated “Good,” 55.3% “Fair,” and 4.1% “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.

Total bridges

936

Public highway bridges in Hennepin County

Good condition

40.6%

380 of 936 rated 7-9

Fair condition

55.3%

518 of 936 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.1%

38 of 936 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#44 of 87

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

Condition distribution

Share of 936 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
40.6% (380)
Fair
55.3% (518)
Poor
4.1% (38)

Hennepin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 334,931 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 8,814 crossings a day against 22,491 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 936 of 936 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

31.2% of Hennepin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

292 of the 936 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 40.6% 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 13.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I 494 over Minnesota River, built 1981, carries 44,357 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 38-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 334,931 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Hennepin County's bridges were built

936 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 199 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Minnesota average (1986).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Hennepin County compares with Minnesota's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Minnesota counties nearest Hennepin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1986 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 86 Minnesota counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hennepin County and the 5 Minnesota counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Hennepin County (this page) 936 4.1%
St. Louis County 663 6.8%
Olmsted County 365 1.4%
Fillmore County 348 2.9%
Mower County 343 8.2%
Ramsey County 341 6.5%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MN (936 bridges here).

Similar average build year

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

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

All 936 Good 380 Fair 518 Poor 38

Good-condition bridges (380)

CON 3703

Good

Over: Bus Connection

0.7 MI W OF JCT TH 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 1998 Load: 52.7 t ADT: 9,341

CON 95

Good

Over: SB 169 to EB TH 13

5.5 MI S OF JCT TH 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 1993 Load: 53.2 t ADT: 11,240

MN 610

Good

Over: US 169

AT THE JCT TH 610; 169, Hennepin, MN

Built 1998 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 32,500

I 94

Good

Over: TH 252 SB

0.3 MI S OF JCT TH 694, Hennepin, MN

Built 1964 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 23,183

CSAH 61

Good

Over: CP RAIL; BASS CREEK

1.5 MI N OF JCT CSAH 9, Hennepin, MN

Built 1994 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 9,658

US 169

Good

Over: I 494

AT THE JCT OF TH 169; 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 1997 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 48,000

MN 62

Good

Over: Bloomington Road

0.2 MI NW OF JCT TH 5, Hennepin, MN

Built 1992 Load: 53.9 t ADT: 39,500

CSAH 4

Good

Over: US 212

.86 MI SW OF JCT TH 5, Hennepin, MN

Built 1999 Load: 54.5 t ADT: 10,760

MN 5

Good

Over: WALLACE RD

2.5 MI W OF JCT TH 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 1998 Load: 54.9 t ADT: 22,750

I 35W

Good

Over: 2ND ST

1.2 MI NE JCT I94; I35W, Hennepin, MN

Built 2008 Load: 55.4 t ADT: 84,000

M 605

Good

Over: WATER WORKS PARK TRAIL

0.1 MI SE OF 3RD AVE S, Hennepin, MN

Built 1999 Load: 55.7 t ADT: 3,842

CSAH 46

Good

Over: GODFREY PARKWAY

0.3 MI W OF COUNTY LINE, Hennepin, MN

Built 2017 Load: 56.1 t ADT: 14,900

MSAS 165

Good

Over: MIDTOWN GREENWAY

0.1 MI N OF LAKE ST, Hennepin, MN

Built 2005 Load: 57.4 t ADT: 6,400

CON 2949

Good

Over: Shingle Creek

0.6 MI W OF JCT TH 100, Hennepin, MN

Built 1980 Load: 58.8 t ADT: 3,620

MSAS 399

Good

Over: I 35W HUMBOLT; BLOOM

0.4 MI S OF JCT TH 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 2004 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 17,900

I 35W

Good

Over: 2ND ST

1.2 MI NE JCT I94; I35W, Hennepin, MN

Built 2008 Load: 59.6 t ADT: 76,000

I 494

Good

Over: KNOX AVE (BRT)

0.18 MI W OF JCT I35W, Hennepin, MN

Built 2021 Load: 59.6 t ADT: 177,000

CSAH 66

Good

Over: NE SIBLEY ST

0.2 MI W OF JCT CSAH 23, Hennepin, MN

Built 1986 Load: 59.6 t ADT: 21,076

BRT

Good

Over: E LAKE ST

1.3 MI S OF JCT I 94, Hennepin, MN

Built 2021 Load: 60.3 t ADT: 1

CON 4153

Good

Over: General Mills Blvd

0.5 Mi East of Jct TH 169, Hennepin, MN

Built 1987 Load: 60.4 t ADT: 3,500

CSAH 152

Good

Over: MINNEHAHA CREEK

2.3 MI S OF LAKE ST, Hennepin, MN

Built 1984 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 17,900

CON 5937

Good

Over: 2ND ST

1.2 MI NE JCT I94; I35W, Hennepin, MN

Built 2008 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 14,301

CON 611

Good

Over: TH 5 WB RAMP

0.1 MI SW OF JCT TH 55, Hennepin, MN

Built 1992 Load: 62.2 t ADT: 12,896

MN 55

Good

Over: TH 62; WB ON RMAP

AT THE JCT TH 62; 55, Hennepin, MN

Built 2000 Load: 62.4 t ADT: 26,611

CON 1689

Good

Over: AMERICAN BLVD

0.2 MI S OF JCT TH 494; 7, Hennepin, MN

Built 1989 Load: 63.7 t ADT: 18,900

M 771

Good

Over: PEDESTRIAN

0.6 MI W OF JCT US 169, Hennepin, MN

Built 2022 Load: 66.1 t ADT: 4,738

CON 571

Good

Over: S FRONTAGE RD

AT THE JCT TH 169; 394, Hennepin, MN

Built 1987 Load: 68.6 t ADT: 4,828

MSAS 211

Good

Over: MIDTOWN GREENWAY

0.1 MI N OF LAKE ST, Hennepin, MN

Built 1997 Load: 75.1 t ADT: 4,900

MN 610

Good

Over: CSAH 81 EB

1.7 MI E OF JCT TH 94, Hennepin, MN

Built 2016 Load: 93.6 t ADT: 32,249

MN 62

Good

Over: LRT

1.4 MI E OF JCT I 494, Hennepin, MN

Built 2021 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 31,784

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.