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Camden County, NJ

261 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 20.7% rated Good, 72.8% Fair, 6.5% Poor.

261
Public bridges: 20.7%
Good condition: 6.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

14th
of 21 on Poor share: 6.5%
Poor-condition share: 261
public highway bridges: 1963
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.

Camden County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Camden County ranks #14 of 21 New Jersey counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.5%). Camden County, New Jersey contains 261 public highway bridges. Roughly 20.7% are rated “Good,” 72.8% “Fair,” and 6.5% “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.

Total bridges

261

Public highway bridges in Camden County

Good condition

20.7%

54 of 261 rated 7-9

Fair condition

72.8%

190 of 261 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.5%

17 of 261 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#14 of 21

Among New Jersey counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 261 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

20.7% (54)

Fair

72.8% (190)

Poor

6.5% (17)

Camden County's Poor-condition bridges carry 424,344 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 24,961 crossings a day against 34,263 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 261 of 261 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

73.2% of Camden County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

191 of the 261 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 20.7% 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 21.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I-76 over NEWTON CK KLEMM AV&CONRL, built 1956, carries 91,353 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 17-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 424,344 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

7
1910s

6
1920s

10
1930s

14
1940s

12
1950s

73
1960s

54
1970s

26
1980s

19
1990s

13
2000s

10
2010s

15
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 73 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1963) matches the New Jersey average (1966).

How Camden County compares with New Jersey's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New Jersey counties nearest Camden County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1963 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 5 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 20 New Jersey counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Camden County and the 5 New Jersey counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Warren County	268	19.4%	76.1%	4.5%	1952
Camden County (this page)	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	207	36.2%	58%	5.8%	1975
Hudson County	202	21.3%	72.3%	6.4%	1966

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 Camden 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 Camden County, both outside New Jersey so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NJ (261 bridges here).

DeKalb County, IL · 261 bridges
Montgomery County, IL · 261 bridges
Russell County, KS · 261 bridges
Vermilion County, LA · 261 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NJ (1963 here).

Worcester County, MA · avg 1963 · 1,014 bridges
Honolulu County, HI · avg 1963 · 682 bridges
Chester County, PA · avg 1963 · 680 bridges
Northumberland County, PA · avg 1963 · 299 bridges

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

All 261 Good 54 Fair 190 Poor 17

Fair-condition bridges (190)

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Camden County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Camden County's Poor-condition bridges carry 424,344 vehicle crossings a day

73.2% of Camden County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 21.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Camden County compares with New Jersey's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (190)

MILL ROAD

WOODCREST ROAD

CUTHBERT BL-CR 623

NJ 42 SB

EVESHAM RD(CR 544)

RAMP E TO RT 130SB

I-295 SB

RIVER RD (Rt 543)

COLLEGE DR (CR673)

NJ-42

NJ 42 NB

I-295 NB

LAUREL ROAD

RAMP"G"

MARLKRESS ROAD

RAMP A

CHAPEL AVE

CHURCH RD

LAKELAND ROAD

ROUTE NJ 73

WAT.N FREEDOM RD.

LAUREL ROAD

NJ 70&CUTHBERTBLVD

I-76 & I-76 RAMPS

US 130 RAMP "F"

MT VERNON AVE

REDMAN AVE

EUCLID AVENUE

Haddonfield Parkg

KINGS HWY (NJ 41)

LINCOLN AVE

I-295

RAMPS D & E

I-295 SB

I-295 RAMPS A&B

MAPLE AVE.(CR 537)

NICHOLSON RD

KINGS HWY (RT. 41)

KINGS HWY (RT 41)

PARK AVENUE

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