Total bridges
468
Public highway bridges in Broome County
County profile · official public datasets
Broome County, NY
468 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39.3% rated Good, 58.3% Fair, 2.4% Poor.
- 468
- Public bridges
- 39.3%
- Good condition
- 2.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Broome County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 8%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 468
- 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.
Broome County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Broome County ranks #5 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.4%). Broome County, New York contains 468 public highway bridges. Roughly 39.3% are rated “Good,” 58.3% “Fair,” and 2.4% “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
39.3%
184 of 468 rated 7-9
Fair condition
58.3%
273 of 468 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.4%
11 of 468 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#5 of 62
Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 468 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 39.3% (184)
Fair 58.3% (273)
Poor 2.4% (11)
Broome County's Poor-condition bridges carry 27,136 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,467 crossings a day against 7,015 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 461 of 468 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
57.1% of Broome County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
267 of the 468 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 39.3% 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 41.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
RTE 434 over CHOCONUT CREEK, built 1946, carries 11,163 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 11-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 27,136 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Broome County's bridges were built
468 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 9
1920–1929
9 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 26
1940–1949
26 bridges
- 1950s 26
1950–1959
26 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
152 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
69 bridges
- 1980s 52
1980–1989
52 bridges
- 1990s 38
1990–1999
38 bridges
- 2000s 32
2000–2009
32 bridges
- 2010s 37
2010–2019
37 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 152 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the New York average (1972).
How Broome County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 New York counties nearest Broome County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oneida County | 496 | 46.2% | 42.3% | 11.5% | 1972 |
| Cattaraugus County | 484 | 55.4% | 38.4% | 6.2% | 1982 |
| Onondaga County | 472 | 29% | 61% | 10% | 1974 |
| Orange County | 472 | 25.4% | 59.3% | 15.3% | 1974 |
| Broome County (this page) | 468 | 39.3% | 58.3% | 2.4% | 1975 |
| Delaware County | 450 | 38.4% | 54.7% | 6.9% | 1977 |
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 Broome 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 Broome County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NY (468 bridges here).
- Le Flore County, OK · 469 bridges
- Winnebago County, IL · 467 bridges
- Pecos County, TX · 470 bridges
- Sangamon County, IL · 466 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NY (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.
Poor-condition bridges (11)
MCNAIR RD
PoorOver: TUSCARORA CREEK
HAMLET OF DAMASCUS, Broome, NY
Built 1964 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 56
UPPER LISLE ROAD
PoorOver: OTSELIC RIVER
0.1 MI WEST OF LISLE, Broome, NY
Built 1902 Load: 9.7 t ADT: 264
FOX ROAD
PoorOver: BROOKS CREEK
1.5 MI W OF CASTLE CREEK, Broome, NY
Built 1977 Load: 13.1 t ADT: 93
OWEGO ROAD
PoorOver: TRACY CREEK
3.0 MI SW OF VESTAL, Broome, NY
Built 1935 Load: 20.5 t ADT: 1,436
GLENWOOD ROAD
PoorOver: BIG CHOCONUT CREEK
1.5 MI SE VESTAL CENTER, Broome, NY
Built 1935 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 435
RTE 26
PoorOver: TRIB E B NANTICOKE CREEK
6.8 MI N JCT SH26 & SH38B, Broome, NY
Built 1938 Load: 26.2 t ADT: 2,409
RTE 41
PoorOver: MARSH CREEK
0.5 MI N JCT RTS 41 + 17, Broome, NY
Built 1927 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 789
RTE 434
PoorOver: CHOCONUT CREEK
1.2MI W JCT RTS 434 & 26, Broome, NY
Built 1946 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 11,163
RTE 12
PoorOver: GILBERT CREEK
2 MI NE JCT SH 12 & SH 12, Broome, NY
Built 1928 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 8,430
MAIN STREET
PoorOver: BELDEN BROOK
IN HARPURSVILLE, Broome, NY
Built 2007 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 2,013
WATER STREET
PoorOver: POTATO CREEK
HAMLET OF CASTLE CREEK, Broome, NY
Built 1935 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 48
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