Total bridges
207
Public highway bridges in Atlantic County
County profile · official public datasets
Atlantic County, NJ
207 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 36.2% rated Good, 58% Fair, 5.8% Poor.
- 207
- Public bridges
- 36.2%
- Good condition
- 5.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Atlantic County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 11th
- of 21 on Poor share
- 5.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 207
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Atlantic County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Atlantic County ranks #11 of 21 New Jersey counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.8%). Atlantic County, New Jersey contains 207 public highway bridges. Roughly 36.2% are rated “Good,” 58% “Fair,” and 5.8% “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
36.2%
75 of 207 rated 7-9
Fair condition
58%
120 of 207 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.8%
12 of 207 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#11 of 21
Among New Jersey counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 207 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 36.2% (75)
Fair 58% (120)
Poor 5.8% (12)
Atlantic County's Poor-condition bridges carry 236,826 vehicle crossings a day
That is 6.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 19,736 crossings a day against 19,310 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 207 of 207 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
55.6% of Atlantic County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
115 of the 207 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 36.2% 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 22.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 30 over NEWFOUND THOROFARE, built 1952, carries 53,245 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 236,826 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Atlantic County's bridges were built
207 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s 11
1920–1929
11 bridges
- 1930s 15
1930–1939
15 bridges
- 1940s 11
1940–1949
11 bridges
- 1950s 19
1950–1959
19 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
49 bridges
- 1970s 8
1970–1979
8 bridges
- 1980s 10
1980–1989
10 bridges
- 1990s 13
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
27 bridges
- 2020s 11
2020–2029
11 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 49 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1975, 9 years newer than the New Jersey average of 1966.
How Atlantic County compares with New Jersey's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 New Jersey counties nearest Atlantic County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 7 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 20 New Jersey counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camden County | 261 | 20.7% | 72.8% | 6.5% | 1963 |
| Gloucester County | 243 | 31.3% | 66.3% | 2.5% | 1967 |
| Ocean County | 241 | 45.6% | 51.5% | 2.9% | 1981 |
| Atlantic County (this page) | 207 | 36.2% | 58% | 5.8% | 1975 |
| Hudson County | 202 | 21.3% | 72.3% | 6.4% | 1966 |
| Sussex County | 174 | 23% | 67.8% | 9.2% | 1961 |
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 Atlantic 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 Atlantic County, both outside New Jersey so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NJ (207 bridges here).
- Marin County, CA · 207 bridges
- Las Animas County, CO · 207 bridges
- Shelby County, IA · 207 bridges
- Washington County, IA · 207 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NJ (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (207)
U.S.ROUTE 30
PoorOver: JONATHANS THOROFARE
0.35 MI SE OF30 DELILAHRD, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1952 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 52,061
OHIO AVENUE
PoorOver: VENICE LAGOON
80 FT EAST OF MURRAY AVE, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1969 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 4,095
JFK MEMRL (CR 629)
PoorOver: RISLEY CHANNEL
EAST TERMINUS OF RT.152, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1963 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 8,142
CR 559
PoorOver: LAKE CREEK
2.3 MI. N. GSPKWY, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1914 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 3,907
GREEN BNK RD CR563
PoorOver: INDIAN CABIN CREEK
2.1 mi North CR 561, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1919 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 2,813
US 40 & NJ 50
PoorOver: GREAT EGG HARBOR RIVER
4.98 MI W OF 40-322 JCT, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1928 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 31,688
CLARKS LANDING RD
PoorOver: LANDING CREEK
0.63 MI E OF CR 563, Atlantic, NJ
Built 1938 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 492
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