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Davie County, NC

93 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 33.3% rated Good, 62.4% Fair, 4.3% Poor.

93
Public bridges: 33.3%
Good condition: 4.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Davie County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 46%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.3%
Poor-condition share: 93
public highway bridges: 1982
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.

Davie County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Davie County ranks #46 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.3%). Davie County, North Carolina contains 93 public highway bridges. Roughly 33.3% are rated “Good,” 62.4% “Fair,” and 4.3% “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 Davie County

Good condition

33.3%

31 of 93 rated 7-9

Fair condition

62.4%

58 of 93 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.3%

4 of 93 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#46 of 100

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

Condition distribution

Share of 93 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

33.3% (31)

Fair

62.4% (58)

Poor

4.3% (4)

Davie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,310 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,328 crossings a day against 4,262 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 93 of 93 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

39.8% of Davie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

37 of the 93 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 33.3% 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 39.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR1606 over ELLSWORTH CREEK, built 1969, carries 2,100 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 5,310 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

4
1940s

1
1950s

7
1960s

23
1970s

4
1980s

22
1990s

12
2000s

5
2010s

12
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the North Carolina average (1986).

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

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Davie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.3% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 5 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Davie 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	95	50.5%	46.3%	3.2%	1993
Graham County	94	35.1%	60.6%	4.3%	1979
Davie County (this page)	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 Davie 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 Davie County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (93 bridges here).

Baker County, FL · 93 bridges
Banks County, GA · 93 bridges
Haralson County, GA · 93 bridges
Alexander County, IL · 93 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1982 here).

Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
Milwaukee County, WI · avg 1982 · 893 bridges
Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges

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

All 93 Good 31 Fair 58 Poor 4

All bridges (93)

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Davie County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Davie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,310 vehicle crossings a day

39.8% of Davie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 39.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Davie 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

All bridges (93)

SR1420

SR1147

SR1407

US158

SR1313

SR1600

NC801

US64

SR1621

SR1430

NC801

US601

US64

NC801

SR1307

SR1441

SR1147

US64

US601

SR1405

US64

SR1410

I40

I40

US158

NC801

SR1142

US64

SR1442

US158

SR1143

SR1147

US64

US601

I40 WBL

I40 EBL

SR1600

I40 EBL

I40 WBL

SR1140

SR1408

SR1617

I40

SR1139

SR1147

SR1636

SR1819

SR1452

SR1435

SR1312

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