Total bridges
228
Public highway bridges in Pitt County
County profile · official public datasets
Pitt County, NC
228 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 64.5% rated Good, 32% Fair, 3.5% Poor.
- 228
- Public bridges
- 64.5%
- Good condition
- 3.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pitt 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 37%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 228
- public highway bridges
- 1994
- 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.
Pitt County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pitt County ranks #37 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.5%). Pitt County, North Carolina contains 228 public highway bridges. Roughly 64.5% are rated “Good,” 32% “Fair,” and 3.5% “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
64.5%
147 of 228 rated 7-9
Fair condition
32%
73 of 228 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.5%
8 of 228 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#37 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 228 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 64.5% (147)
Fair 32% (73)
Poor 3.5% (8)
Pitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 25,870 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,234 crossings a day against 5,887 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 228 of 228 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
21.9% of Pitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
50 of the 228 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 64.5% 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 52.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US13 over LITTLE CONTENTNEA CREEK, built 1965, carries 13,500 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 25,870 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pitt County's bridges were built
228 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 14
1950–1959
14 bridges
- 1960s 21
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s 20
1970–1979
20 bridges
- 1980s 21
1980–1989
21 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
50 bridges
- 2000s 18
2000–2009
18 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
73 bridges
- 2020s 7
2020–2029
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 73 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1994, 8 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Pitt County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Pitt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.5% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1994 against a peer-group mean of 1983 is 11 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaston County | 232 | 36.6% | 58.2% | 5.2% | 1980 |
| Burke County | 231 | 43.3% | 51.1% | 5.6% | 1981 |
| Rockingham County | 229 | 48.5% | 39.7% | 11.8% | 1987 |
| Pitt County (this page) | 228 | 64.5% | 32% | 3.5% | 1994 |
| Columbus County | 226 | 60.6% | 38.1% | 1.3% | 1994 |
| Macon County | 223 | 30% | 52.5% | 17.5% | 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 Pitt 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 Pitt County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (228 bridges here).
- Jackson County, IL · 228 bridges
- Franklin County, IA · 228 bridges
- Attala County, MS · 228 bridges
- Saratoga County, NY · 228 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1994 here).
- Denton County, TX · avg 1994 · 991 bridges
- St. Charles County, MO · avg 1994 · 417 bridges
- Rock County, WI · avg 1994 · 304 bridges
- Pasco County, FL · avg 1994 · 151 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (8)
SR1715
PoorOver: FORK SWAMP
0.2 MI. E. JCT. SR1713, Pitt, NC
Built 1965 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 1,200
OXFORD ROAD
PoorOver: BELLS BRANCH
0.1 MI.S.JCT.10TH ST., Pitt, NC
Built 1966 Load: 10.8 t ADT: 1,200
SR1756
PoorOver: COW SWAMP
0.4 MI N JCT SR 1777, Pitt, NC
Built 1977 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 700
SR1535
PoorOver: CANAL
0.4 MI. N. JCT. SR1534, Pitt, NC
Built 1973 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 650
SR1138
PoorOver: LITTLE CONTENTNEA CREEK
0.8 MI N JCT SR1217, Pitt, NC
Built 1957 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 720
NC33
PoorOver: CAROLINA COASTAL RR
1.8 MI. E. JCT. SR1562, Pitt, NC
Built 1938 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 7,400
US13
PoorOver: LITTLE CONTENTNEA CREEK
2.1 MI. E. JCT. US264 ALT, Pitt, NC
Built 1965 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 13,500
ROCK SPRING ROAD
PoorOver: GREEN MILL RUN
.1 MI.S.JCT.10TH STREET, Pitt, NC
Built 1950 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 500
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