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Bertie County, NC

95 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 50.5% rated Good, 46.3% Fair, 3.2% Poor.

95
Public bridges: 50.5%
Good condition: 3.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Bertie County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 30%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.2%
Poor-condition share: 95
public highway bridges: 1993
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.

Bertie County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bertie County ranks #30 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.2%). Bertie County, North Carolina contains 95 public highway bridges. Roughly 50.5% are rated “Good,” 46.3% “Fair,” and 3.2% “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

Public highway bridges in Bertie County

Good condition

50.5%

48 of 95 rated 7-9

Fair condition

46.3%

44 of 95 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.2%

3 of 95 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#30 of 100

Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 95 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

50.5% (48)

Fair

46.3% (44)

Poor

3.2% (3)

Bertie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,950 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,650 crossings a day against 2,125 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 95 of 95 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

23.2% of Bertie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

22 of the 95 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 50.5% 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 54.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

NC11 over CASHIE RIVER, built 1971, carries 6,000 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 10,950 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

1
1940s

1
1950s

3
1960s

12
1970s

6
1980s

4
1990s

23
2000s

16
2010s

24
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1993, 7 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.

How Bertie County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Bertie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1993 against a peer-group mean of 1985 is 8 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Bertie County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Scotland County	101	44.6%	54.5%	1%	1983
Lee County	98	57.1%	42.9%	0%	1989
Bertie County (this page)	95	50.5%	46.3%	3.2%	1993
Graham County	94	35.1%	60.6%	4.3%	1979
Davie County	93	33.3%	62.4%	4.3%	1982
Caswell County	90	58.9%	35.6%	5.6%	1991

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 Bertie 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 Bertie County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (95 bridges here).

Pike County, AR · 95 bridges
Camden County, GA · 95 bridges
Liberty County, GA · 95 bridges
Fulton County, KY · 95 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1993 here).

Salt Lake County, UT · avg 1993 · 659 bridges
Marshall County, MS · avg 1993 · 255 bridges
Daviess County, IN · avg 1993 · 221 bridges
Scott County, MN · avg 1993 · 129 bridges

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

All 95 Good 48 Fair 44 Poor 3

Good-condition bridges (48)

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Bertie County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Bertie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,950 vehicle crossings a day

23.2% of Bertie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 54.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Bertie County compares with North Carolina'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 (48)

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SR1222

SR1128

US17 S

SR1200

SR1511

US17N

US17

NC45

US17S

US17N

US17S

SR1219

SR1200

US13S US17S

US13

SR1110

SR1354

SR1328

US13 17

SR1228

SR1500

SR1343

SR1301

SR1260

SR1349

NC308

SR1518

SR1300

SR1002

US13 17SBL

SR1315

SR1301

US13

SR1361

SR1001

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SR1511

US13

SR1108

SR1500

SR1301

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SR1500

SR1001

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