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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.

Total bridges

228

Public highway bridges in Pitt County

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

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.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pitt County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Gaston County 232 5.2%
Burke County 231 5.6%
Rockingham County 229 11.8%
Pitt County (this page) 228 3.5%
Columbus County 226 1.3%
Macon County 223 17.5%

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).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1994 here).

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

All 228 Good 147 Fair 73 Poor 8

All bridges (228)

SR1565

Good

Over: TAR RIVER

0.7 MI. N. JCT. SR1589, Pitt, NC

Built 2011 Load: 59.8 t ADT: 4,600

SR1925

Good

Over: CLAYROOT SWAMP

0.3 MI. S. JCT. SR1800, Pitt, NC

Built 1993 Load: 60.7 t ADT: 80

SR1425

Good

Over: GRINDLE CREEK

0.75 MI. E. JCT. SR1424, Pitt, NC

Built 2002 Load: 60.7 t ADT: 20

NC102

Good

Over: SWIFT CREEK

1.3 MI W JCT SR1723, Pitt, NC

Built 2008 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 4,700

SR2241

Good

Over: FORK SWAMP

0.4 MI. E. JCT. SR1700, Pitt, NC

Built 2010 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 2,600

SR1200

Good

Over: PINELOG BRANCH

0.3 MI. E. JCT. SR1218, Pitt, NC

Built 2011 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 2,300

US264

Good

Over: THOMPSON CANAL

0.6MI.W.JCT.SR1229, Pitt, NC

Built 1989 Load: 65.3 t ADT: 19,500

SR1598

Good

Over: CSX RR SR1531

0.8 MI.E. JCT. US13 NC11, Pitt, NC

Built 2019 Load: 69.8 t ADT: 12,000

KING GEORGE RD.

Good

Over: MEETING HOUSE BRANCH

100 S.JCT.YORK RD., Pitt, NC

Built 2019 Load: 70.7 t ADT: 1,400

SR1538

Good

Over: HUNTING RUN

1.3 MI. N. JCT. SR1517, Pitt, NC

Built 2016 Load: 85.2 t ADT: 560

SR1709

Good

Over: TRIB. OF FORK SWAMP

1.1 MI. N. JCT. SR1711, Pitt, NC

Built 1962 Load: 87.9 t ADT: 4,200

SR1743

Good

Over: INDIAN WELL SWAMP

0.2 MI. E. JCT. NC43, Pitt, NC

Built 1986 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 360

SR1518

Good

Over: WHICHARD MILL BR.

0.6 MI E. JCT. SR1514, Pitt, NC

Built 1995 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100

SR1415

Good

Over: CROAK CREEK

100 FT W. OF JCT.SR1413, Pitt, NC

Built 1990 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 600

SR1749

Good

Over: INDIAN WELL SWAMP

0.8 MI E. JCT. SR1745, Pitt, NC

Built 1995 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 370

SR1911

Good

Over: BUCKLEBERRY CANAL

0.3 MI W JCT SR1913, Pitt, NC

Built 1996 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100

SR1913

Good

Over: BUCKLEBERRY CANAL

0.1 MI. S. JCT.SR1911, Pitt, NC

Built 1996 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100

ELM STREET

Good

Over: GREEN MILL RUN

0.1MI.S.JCT.W.10TH ST., Pitt, NC

Built 1960 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 11,000

SR1708

Good

Over: FORK SWAMP

0.9 MI. W. OF JCT. SR1725, Pitt, NC

Built 2000 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 33,000

SR1766

Good

Over: JUNIPER BRANCH

0.6 MI N JCT SR1760, Pitt, NC

Built 2020 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100

SR1715

Poor

Over: FORK SWAMP

0.2 MI. E. JCT. SR1713, Pitt, NC

Built 1965 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 1,200

OXFORD ROAD

Poor

Over: BELLS BRANCH

0.1 MI.S.JCT.10TH ST., Pitt, NC

Built 1966 Load: 10.8 t ADT: 1,200

SR1756

Poor

Over: COW SWAMP

0.4 MI N JCT SR 1777, Pitt, NC

Built 1977 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 700

SR1535

Poor

Over: CANAL

0.4 MI. N. JCT. SR1534, Pitt, NC

Built 1973 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 650

SR1138

Poor

Over: LITTLE CONTENTNEA CREEK

0.8 MI N JCT SR1217, Pitt, NC

Built 1957 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 720

NC33

Poor

Over: CAROLINA COASTAL RR

1.8 MI. E. JCT. SR1562, Pitt, NC

Built 1938 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 7,400

US13

Poor

Over: LITTLE CONTENTNEA CREEK

2.1 MI. E. JCT. US264 ALT, Pitt, NC

Built 1965 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 13,500

ROCK SPRING ROAD

Poor

Over: GREEN MILL RUN

.1 MI.S.JCT.10TH STREET, Pitt, NC

Built 1950 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 500

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