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Kings County, NY

242 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 24.8% rated Good, 64% Fair, 11.2% Poor.

242
Public bridges: 24.8%
Good condition: 11.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Kings 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.

41st
of 62 on Poor share: 11.2%
Poor-condition share: 242
public highway bridges: 1953
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.

Kings County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kings County ranks #41 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.2%). Kings County, New York contains 242 public highway bridges. Roughly 24.8% are rated “Good,” 64% “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

242

Public highway bridges in Kings County

Good condition

24.8%

60 of 242 rated 7-9

Fair condition

64%

155 of 242 rated 5-6

Poor condition

11.2%

27 of 242 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#41 of 62

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

Condition distribution

Share of 242 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

24.8% (60)

Fair

64% (155)

Poor

11.2% (27)

Kings County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,874,456 vehicle crossings a day

That is 17.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 12.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 69,424 crossings a day against 37,691 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 221 of 242 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

77.3% of Kings County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

187 of the 242 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 24.8% 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 10.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I278 over RTE I278 FURMAN STREET, built 1944, carries 202,650 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 27-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,874,456 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

5
1900s

29
1910s

18
1920s

4
1930s

19
1940s

33
1950s

43
1960s

36
1980s

4
1990s

20
2000s

14
2010s

17

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 43 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1953, 19 years older than the New York average of 1972.

How Kings County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Kings County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1953 against a peer-group mean of 1965 is 12 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Kings County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Herkimer County	248	46.8%	41.1%	12.1%	1973
Rockland County	248	26.6%	63.3%	10.1%	1970
New York County	247	13.4%	76.9%	9.7%	1945
Columbia County	243	17.7%	64.2%	18.1%	1963
Kings County (this page)	242	24.8%	64%	11.2%	1953
Oswego County	233	28.3%	61.4%	10.3%	1975

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (242 bridges here).

Glenn County, CA · 242 bridges
Macoupin County, IL · 242 bridges
Wabaunsee County, KS · 242 bridges
Tuscola County, MI · 242 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1953 here).

Parke County, IN · avg 1953 · 200 bridges
Runnels County, TX · avg 1953 · 158 bridges
Jeff Davis County, TX · avg 1953 · 134 bridges
Coke County, TX · avg 1953 · 99 bridges

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

All 242 Good 60 Fair 155 Poor 27

Good-condition bridges (60)

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Kings County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Kings County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,874,456 vehicle crossings a day

77.3% of Kings County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 10.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Kings County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (60)

RAMP TO OCEAN PKY

RTE 278

DORCHESTER ROAD

RTE I278

LINCOLN PLACE

RTE I278

RTE I278

STERLING PLACE

WASHINGTON AVENUE

79TH STREET

HIGHLAWN AVENUE

RTE 907

RTE 907

NINTH STREET

ST JOHNS PLACE

CARLTON AVENUE

RIDGE BOULEVARD

3RD AVENUE

14TH AVENUE

RTE 27

DITMAS AVENUE

LINCOLN ROAD

RTE 907C

RTE 907C

SECOND AVENUE

ERSKINE STREET

RTE 278

16TH AVENUE

FOURTH AVENUE

52ND STREET

18TH AVENUE

KINGS HIGHWAY

RTE 907C

CORTELYOU ROAD

RTE I278

RTE 27

RTE 278

RTE 907C

86TH STREET

17TH AVENUE

RTE 27

15TH AVENUE

15TH AVENUE

AVENUE S

20TH AVENUE

Gowanus HOV Ramp

RTE 278

7TH AVENUE

HIGHLAND BLVD NB

PITKIN AVENUE

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