Total bridges
22
Public highway bridges in Currituck County
County profile · official public datasets
Currituck County, NC
22 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.9% rated Good, 59.1% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 22
- Public bridges
- 40.9%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Currituck County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 3%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 22
- public highway bridges
- 1997
- 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.
Currituck County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Currituck County ranks #3 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Currituck County, North Carolina contains 22 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.9% are rated “Good,” 59.1% “Fair,” and 0% “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
40.9%
9 of 22 rated 7-9
Fair condition
59.1%
13 of 22 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 22 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#3 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 22 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.9% (9)
Fair 59.1% (13)
Poor 0% (0)
4.5% of Currituck County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
1 of the 22 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 40.9% 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.
When Currituck County's bridges were built
22 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s 3
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
9 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 9 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 40.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1997, 11 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Currituck County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Currituck County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1997 against a peer-group mean of 1995 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dare County | 40 | 47.5% | 42.5% | 10% | 2000 |
| Perquimans County | 39 | 56.4% | 41% | 2.6% | 1996 |
| Chowan County | 38 | 63.2% | 34.2% | 2.6% | 1995 |
| Camden County | 28 | 42.9% | 46.4% | 10.7% | 1989 |
| Tyrrell County | 28 | 50% | 35.7% | 14.3% | 1994 |
| Currituck County (this page) | 22 | 40.9% | 59.1% | 0% | 1997 |
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 Currituck 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 Currituck County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (22 bridges here).
- Glascock County, GA · 22 bridges
- Scott County, KS · 22 bridges
- Wichita County, KS · 22 bridges
- Griggs County, ND · 22 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1997 here).
- Kenosha County, WI · avg 1997 · 109 bridges
- Isanti County, MN · avg 1997 · 37 bridges
- Aransas County, TX · avg 1997 · 22 bridges
- Bethel County, AK · avg 1997 · 13 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.