Total bridges
261
Public highway bridges in Camden County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Camden County's bridges were built
261 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 7
1900–1909
7 bridges
- 1910s 6
1910–1919
6 bridges
- 1920s 10
1920–1929
10 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 12
1940–1949
12 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
73 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
54 bridges
- 1970s 26
1970–1979
26 bridges
- 1980s 19
1980–1989
19 bridges
- 1990s 13
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s 10
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s 15
2010–2019
15 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
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.
| 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.
Poor-condition bridges (17)
BROWNING RD(CO659)
PoorOver: I-295
AT I-76 INTERCHANGE, Camden, NJ
Built 1957 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 3,789
N. FRNKLN AV CR692
PoorOver: ATLANTIC CITY LINE
2.8MI NW of US30&NJ73 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1941 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 7,688
OLD WHITE HORSE PK
PoorOver: ATLANTIC CITY LINE
2.0MI SE of NJ73&RT30 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1904 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 1,845
CR561 (HADDON AVE)
PoorOver: ATLANTIC CITY LINE
1.9MI NW of NJ73&US30 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1941 Load: 15.4 t ADT: 2,516
US 130
PoorOver: MAIN BR. NEWTON CREEK
0.39 MI S OF RT168 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1927 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 47,350
OHIO AVE. (CR 734)
PoorOver: ATLANTIC CITY LINE
2.7MI SE of US30&NJ73 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1905 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 282
GARFIELD AVE
PoorOver: NO.BR TIMBER CREEK
0.05 MI N OF BERLIN RD, Camden, NJ
Built 1939 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 3,336
RT 73 & RAMP G
PoorOver: ROUTE US 130
0.5 MI N of Pennsauken Cr, Camden, NJ
Built 1930 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 60,600
RT NJ 73
PoorOver: PENNSAUKEN CREEK
0.94 MI N OF US 130 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1930 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 54,495
KAIGHNS AV (CR607)
PoorOver: COOPER RIVER
0.16 MI W OF RT 130, Camden, NJ
Built 1924 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 8,890
SOMERDALE ROAD
PoorOver: N BRANCH TIMBER CREEK
.27 MI E OF CR 683 Somerd, Camden, NJ
Built 1936 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 16,633
BURNT HOUSE ROAD
PoorOver: MULLICA RIVER
6.8 MI NE OF RT30&206 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1930 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 35
BAIRD BLVD(CO 608)
PoorOver: US 30
0.63 MI S OF 30-537 JCT, Camden, NJ
Built 1949 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 3,509
COVERED BRIDGE RD
PoorOver: N.BR.COOPER RIVER
0.75 MI SO. RT 70, Camden, NJ
Built 1959 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 6,006
I-676 NB & RAMP FN
PoorOver: NEWTON CREEK
0.11 MI N OF JCT I-76, Camden, NJ
Built 1956 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 73,907
I-676 SB
PoorOver: Newton Creek
0.11 MILES N. OF JCT I-76, Camden, NJ
Built 1956 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 42,110
I-76
PoorOver: NEWTON CK KLEMM AV&CONRL
0.06 MI. N OF US 130, Camden, NJ
Built 1956 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 91,353
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