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Hinds County, MS

663 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.8% rated Good, 54% Fair, 11.2% Poor.

663
Public bridges
34.8%
Good condition
11.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hinds County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

77th
of 82 on Poor share
11.2%
Poor-condition share
663
public highway bridges
1980
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.

Hinds County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hinds County ranks #77 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.2%). Hinds County, Mississippi contains 663 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.8% are rated “Good,” 54% “Fair,” and 11.2% “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

663

Public highway bridges in Hinds County

Good condition

34.8%

231 of 663 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54%

358 of 663 rated 5-6

Poor condition

11.2%

74 of 663 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#77 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 663 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
34.8% (231)
Fair
54% (358)
Poor
11.2% (74)

Hinds County's Poor-condition bridges carry 175,727 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 11% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,407 crossings a day against 10,101 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 662 of 663 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

45.7% of Hinds County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

303 of the 663 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 34.8% 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 13.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I 20 over LYNCH ST ABANDONED RR, built 1969, carries 24,500 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 74-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 175,727 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Hinds County's bridges were built

663 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 167 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1980, 6 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.

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

How Hinds County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Hinds County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.2% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1983 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hinds County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Hinds County (this page) 663 11.2%
Lauderdale County 481 6.2%
Lee County 385 4.4%
Lincoln County 380 10.8%
Rankin County 374 5.3%
Jones County 329 7.6%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (663 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1980 here).

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

All bridges (663)

I 55

Fair

Over: CANTON MART ROAD

0.7 MI N NORTHSIDE DR, Hinds, MS

Built 1987 Load: 22.4 t ADT: 49,000

GREEN GABLE ROAD

Fair

Over: I 55

3.5 MI N COPIAH CL, Hinds, MS

Built 1959 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 4,600

SEDGEWICK DR

Fair

Over: PURPLE CR

SEC 8 T 6N R 2E, Hinds, MS

Built 1965 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 2,300

PARKS RD

Fair

Over: BCH OF BIG CREEK

SEC 5 T 4N R 1W, Hinds, MS

Built 1969 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 350

MYERS ROAD

Fair

Over: TALLAHALLA CREEK

SEC 21 T 4N R 2W, Hinds, MS

Built 1964 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 170

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: U.S. ROUTE 80 (NORTH FRO

0.3 MILES NORTH OF I-20., Hinds, MS

Built 1965 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 1,130

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: COUNTY ROAD

4.0 MILES FROM MS ROUTE 4, Hinds, MS

Built 1966 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 1,130

US 80

Fair

Over: CREEK

0.4 MI W SR 18, Hinds, MS

Built 1940 Load: 22.9 t ADT: 17,000

US 80

Fair

Over: CNIC RR/WEST STREET

0.3 MI W US 51, Hinds, MS

Built 1938 Load: 23.1 t ADT: 14,000

US 80

Fair

Over: US 51 ABANDONDED RR

US 80 OVER US 51, Hinds, MS

Built 1938 Load: 23.1 t ADT: 16,000

TERRY ROAD

Fair

Over: HARRIS CREEK

SEC 9 T 3N R 1W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1930 Load: 23.1 t ADT: 2,100

CEMETERY ROAD

Fair

Over: BCH OF BAKERS CREEK

SEC 26 T 6N R 4W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1985 Load: 23.2 t ADT: 100

S STATE ST

Fair

Over: TOWN CR

SEC 10 T 5N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1937 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 13,000

UTICA BYPASS ROAD

Fair

Over: BCH OF MURPHY CREEK

SEC 7 T 3N R 4W, Hinds, MS

Built 1993 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 120

MCCLURE RD

Fair

Over: SMALL DITCH

SEC 34 T 5N R 1W, Hinds, MS

Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,700

US 49

Fair

Over: LIME KILN CREEK

6.4 MI N NATCHEZ TRACE, Hinds, MS

Built 1958 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 6,000

WOODFIELD

Fair

Over: PURPLE CR

SEC 6 T 6N R 2E, Hinds, MS

Built 1986 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 1,600

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: WILLIAMS AIRPORT ROAD

4.9 MILES FROM I-20, Hinds, MS

Built 1967 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,130

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: COUNTY ROAD

2.7 MILES FROM MS ROUTE 4, Hinds, MS

Built 1966 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,130

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: STREAM

6.82 MILES FROM MS ROUTE, Hinds, MS

Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 650

CULLEY DR

Fair

Over: TRIB HANGING MOSS CR

SEC 11 T 6N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1994 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 600

D NEWMAN RD

Fair

Over: FIVE MILE CREEK

SEC 35 T 4N R 4W, Hinds, MS

Built 1992 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 80

ALTA WOODS BLVD

Fair

Over: SMALL STREAM

SEC 17 T 5N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1997 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 2,600

PLEASANT ST

Fair

Over: TRIB TOWN CREEK

SEC 34 T 6N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1980 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 500

CAYUGA ROAD

Fair

Over: BCH OF MURPHY CREEK

SEC 31 T 4N R 4W, Hinds, MS

Built 1999 Load: 25.7 t ADT: 280

CAROL JOHNS RD

Fair

Over: BCH OF BAKERS CREEK

SEC 15 T 6N R 3W, Hinds, MS

Built 1976 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 200

GARY ROAD

Fair

Over: BCH OF BIG CREEK

SEC 22 T 4N R 1W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1989 Load: 26.5 t ADT: 4,000

I 55

Fair

Over: BIG CREEK

4.6 MI N TERRY INTCH, Hinds, MS

Built 1992 Load: 26.8 t ADT: 17,000

I 55

Fair

Over: PEARL RIVER CHANNEL

1.2 MI N JCT I 55 I 20, Hinds, MS

Built 1967 Load: 26.9 t ADT: 55,000

REEDTOWN RD

Fair

Over: BCH WHITE OAK CREEK

SEC 20 T 3N R 4W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1971 Load: 26.9 t ADT: 370

GARY RD

Fair

Over: BCH OF BIG CREEK

SEC 15 T 4N R 1W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1986 Load: 27.0 t ADT: 1,000

DANIEL LAKE ROAD

Fair

Over: I 55

1.6 MI S I55S/I20W, Hinds, MS

Built 1962 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 4,300

NATCHEZ TRACE PARK

Fair

Over: COUNTY ROAD

6.2 MILES FROM I-20, Hinds, MS

Built 1966 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,130

OLD CANTON RD

Fair

Over: EUBANKS CREEK

SEC 23 T 6N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1969 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 6,900

I 220

Fair

Over: NORTHSIDE DRIVE

4.8 MI N I 20, Hinds, MS

Built 1977 Load: 27.4 t ADT: 22,500

PRENTISS CRUMP

Fair

Over: LITTLE TALLAHALLA CREEK

SEC 12 T 3N R 3W, Hinds, MS

Built 1989 Load: 27.4 t ADT: 60

I 20

Fair

Over: BIG BLACK RIVER RELIEF

0.2 MI E WARREN CL, Hinds, MS

Built 1994 Load: 27.6 t ADT: 18,000

I 20

Fair

Over: BIG BLACK RIVER RELIEF

0.2 MI E WARREN CL, Hinds, MS

Built 1994 Load: 27.6 t ADT: 18,000

I 55

Fair

Over: RHODES CREEK

5.1 MI N COPIAH CL, Hinds, MS

Built 1996 Load: 27.6 t ADT: 16,000

SAVANNA STREET

Fair

Over: I 55

2.4 MI S I55S/I20W, Hinds, MS

Built 1959 Load: 27.9 t ADT: 5,200

SR 25

Fair

Over: I 55

SR 25 OVER I 55, Hinds, MS

Built 1970 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 39,000

SEATON ROAD

Fair

Over: TRIB OF HAMILTON CREEK

SEC 22 T14N R 3W, Hinds, MS

Built 1997 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 80

PEARL ST

Fair

Over: JEFFERSON ST & ICGRR

SEC 3 T 5N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1971 Load: 28.4 t ADT: 9,600

DUKE ROAD

Fair

Over: MCCLELLAN CREEK

SEC 10 T13N R 5E B, Hinds, MS

Built 1980 Load: 28.4 t ADT: 510

SMITH STATION RD

Fair

Over: LARGE WATERWAY

SEC 36 T16N R 5E B, Hinds, MS

Built 1968 Load: 28.4 t ADT: 240

MIDDLE ROAD

Fair

Over: RELIEF FOR 14 MILE CREEK

SEC 21 T 5N R 4W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1977 Load: 28.7 t ADT: 270

OAKLEY PALESTINE

Fair

Over: TALLAHALA CREEK

SEC 16 T 4N R 2W B, Hinds, MS

Built 1973 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 220

MCCLUER RD

Fair

Over: TRIB&RELIEF CANEY CR

SEC 30 T 5N R 1E, Hinds, MS

Built 1996 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 4,900

LEARNED OAKLEY RD

Fair

Over: BITTER CREEK

SEC 8 T 4N R 3W, Hinds, MS

Built 1970 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 180

I 55

Fair

Over: PEARL RIVER CHANNEL

1.2 MI N JCT I 55 I 20, Hinds, MS

Built 1967 Load: 29.6 t ADT: 55,000
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges

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