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Edgecombe County, NC

147 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.8% rated Good, 57.8% Fair, 3.4% Poor.

147
Public bridges: 38.8%
Good condition: 3.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 34%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.4%
Poor-condition share: 147
public highway bridges: 1986
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.

Edgecombe County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Edgecombe County ranks #34 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.4%). Edgecombe County, North Carolina contains 147 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.8% are rated “Good,” 57.8% “Fair,” and 3.4% “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.

Total bridges

147

Public highway bridges in Edgecombe County

Good condition

38.8%

57 of 147 rated 7-9

Fair condition

57.8%

85 of 147 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.4%

5 of 147 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#34 of 100

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

Condition distribution

Share of 147 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

38.8% (57)

Fair

57.8% (85)

Poor

3.4% (5)

Edgecombe County's Poor-condition bridges carry 27,300 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 5,460 crossings a day against 1,792 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 147 of 147 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

31.3% of Edgecombe County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

46 of the 147 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 38.8% 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 58.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US64A US258 over US64, built 1967, carries 16,000 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 27,300 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

4
1940s

6
1950s

17
1960s

19
1970s

2
1980s

28
1990s

23
2000s

13
2010s

22
2020s

13

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1986) matches the North Carolina average (1986).

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

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Edgecombe County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1988 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Edgecombe County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Montgomery County	151	51%	47.7%	1.3%	1986
Stokes County	150	38.7%	51.3%	10%	1988
Granville County	149	32.9%	61.1%	6%	1984
Craven County	147	46.9%	49%	4.1%	1988
Edgecombe County (this page)	147	38.8%	57.8%	3.4%	1986
Lenoir County	145	52.4%	44.8%	2.8%	1993

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (147 bridges here).

Barren County, KY · 147 bridges
Avoyelles County, LA · 147 bridges
Marquette County, MI · 147 bridges
Carlton County, MN · 147 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1986 here).

El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges

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

All 147 Good 57 Fair 85 Poor 5

All bridges (147)

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Edgecombe County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Edgecombe County's Poor-condition bridges carry 27,300 vehicle crossings a day

31.3% of Edgecombe County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 58.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Edgecombe 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 (147)

US64W

US64 E

US64 NC43 BYP W

US64 EBL

SR1006

SR1500

US64E

US64 WBL

SR1404

US64

US64 WBL

SR1253

US64W

US64 BYP.E

US64W

US64 BYP E

SR1500

SR1225

SR1505

SR1124

SR1124

US64 EAST

US64W NC43

SR1409

NC43

US64 E

US64W BYP; NC43

US64 BUS.

US64

NC33

SR1516

SR1508

NC43

SR1128

SR1608

SR1537

SR1002

OLIVE STREET

SR1124(CLSD)

SR1526

NC42

SR1615

SR1429

NC42

NC43

SR1126

SR1404

SR1404

SR1404

SR1006

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