Total bridges
208
Public highway bridges in Wayne County
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Wayne County, NC
208 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.8% rated Good, 51.9% Fair, 4.3% Poor.
- 208
- Public bridges
- 43.8%
- Good condition
- 4.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wayne 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 47%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 208
- public highway bridges
- 1991
- 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.
Wayne County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wayne County ranks #47 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.3%). Wayne County, North Carolina contains 208 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.8% are rated “Good,” 51.9% “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.
Good condition
43.8%
91 of 208 rated 7-9
Fair condition
51.9%
108 of 208 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.3%
9 of 208 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#47 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 208 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 43.8% (91)
Fair 51.9% (108)
Poor 4.3% (9)
Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 16,500 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.3% 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 1,833 crossings a day against 4,692 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 208 of 208 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
28.8% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
60 of the 208 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 43.8% 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 30.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR2075 over US13 US117 ALT, built 1958, carries 5,000 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 9-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 16,500 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Wayne County's bridges were built
208 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 5
1920–1929
5 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 20
1950–1959
20 bridges
- 1960s 20
1960–1969
20 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
23 bridges
- 1980s 11
1980–1989
11 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
23 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
39 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
57 bridges
- 2020s 9
2020–2029
9 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 57 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1991, 5 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Wayne County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.3% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1991 against a peer-group mean of 1987 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplin County | 208 | 33.2% | 59.1% | 7.7% | 1988 |
| Wayne County (this page) | 208 | 43.8% | 51.9% | 4.3% | 1991 |
| Caldwell County | 201 | 35.8% | 55.7% | 8.5% | 1983 |
| Watauga County | 200 | 43.5% | 47% | 9.5% | 1984 |
| Sampson County | 196 | 50% | 46.9% | 3.1% | 1994 |
| Wilson County | 195 | 48.2% | 50.8% | 1% | 1985 |
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 Wayne 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 Wayne County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (208 bridges here).
- Muscogee County, GA · 208 bridges
- Posey County, IN · 208 bridges
- Marshall County, KY · 208 bridges
- Caldwell County, MO · 208 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1991 here).
- Denver County, CO · avg 1991 · 458 bridges
- Baldwin County, AL · avg 1991 · 381 bridges
- Rock County, MN · avg 1991 · 265 bridges
- Alcorn County, MS · avg 1991 · 213 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (108)
SR1324
FairOver: NAHUNTA SWAMP
0.4 MI N JCT SR1336, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 300
SR1236
FairOver: BEAVER DAM CREEK
0.4 MI N. OF JCT SR1007, Wayne, NC
Built 1959 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 5,100
BEST STREET
FairOver: LONG BRANCH
0.1MI.S.JCT.HARRIS STREET, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 1,100
US117
FairOver: NAHUNTA SWAMP
0.8 MI S JCT SR 1542, Wayne, NC
Built 1925 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 3,200
US117ALT
FairOver: POPLAR BRANCH
100YD S JCT. US 117BYP, Wayne, NC
Built 1921 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 5,700
NC581
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER
0.2 MI. S. JCT. SR1008, Wayne, NC
Built 1954 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 7,700
SR1234
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER
0.8 MI.S. JCT. SR1330, Wayne, NC
Built 1977 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 890
US70 E
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER
0.1 MI.E. OF JCT.SR1326, Wayne, NC
Built 1926 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 11,000
NC581
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER OVERFLOW
0.9 M.I N. JCT. US117, Wayne, NC
Built 1954 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 7,700
SR1317
FairOver: PEACOCK BRANCH
200FT W. JCT SR1318, Wayne, NC
Built 1951 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 5,600
US13/US117
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER OVERF
0.15MI.S.JCT.SR2108, Wayne, NC
Built 1954 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 15,500
US13 US70B NC111
FairOver: STONEY CREEK
0.4 MI. S. JCT SR1565, Wayne, NC
Built 1976 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 41,000
BERRY STREET
FairOver: LONG BRANCH
.1MI.E.JCT.ANDREWS ST., Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 300
US70 BUS.
FairOver: SCL RAILROAD
.2 MI E OFJCT US13 70&117, Wayne, NC
Built 1926 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 8,800
US13 US117 N
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER
0.3 MI N. OF JCT. SR1926, Wayne, NC
Built 1954 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 12,000
US13 US70 US117N
FairOver: SCLRR
0.4 MI N. JCT US70BUS, Wayne, NC
Built 1949 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 13,000
SR1900
FairOver: STONEY CREEK
0.9 MI.S.JCT.US70BUS, Wayne, NC
Built 1987 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 8,900
SR1731
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER OVRFLW.
0.6 MI.N. OF JCT.NC55, Wayne, NC
Built 1969 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,400
NC581
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER
0.4 MI S JCT SR1919, Wayne, NC
Built 1959 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 7,000
US13N US117N
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER OFLOW
0.9 MI.N. OF JCT. SR1926, Wayne, NC
Built 1954 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 15,500
US70 WBL
FairOver: WALNUT CREEK
1.0 MI. E. JCT. NC111, Wayne, NC
Built 1921 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 13,000
US13 US117BY NC581
FairOver: TRIB.OF LITTLE RIVER
0.5 MI. S. JCT. NC581, Wayne, NC
Built 2006 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 26,000
NC55
FairOver: SR1938 & ACL RAILROAD
0.7 MI E JCT NC55/US117, Wayne, NC
Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 5,800
SR1219
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
0.5 MI. E. JCT. SR1216, Wayne, NC
Built 1975 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 1,000
US13
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
0.4 MI N. OF JCT SR1126, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 4,200
US13
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
0.6 MI N. OF JCT SR1126, Wayne, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 4,200
US70BUS
FairOver: BIG DITCH
0.6 MI.E.JCT.NC581, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 13,000
US13NBL/US70EB
FairOver: US117BUS/NC 111
0.35 MI N JCT US 117 BYP, Wayne, NC
Built 1956 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 15,250
RETHA STREET
FairOver: BIG DITCH
300 S. JCT.BAY ST., Wayne, NC
Built 1974 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 50
NC581
FairOver: NAHUNTA SWAMP
3.4 MI. S. JCT. NC222, Wayne, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,900
NC581
FairOver: GREAT SWAMP
0.7 MI.S.JCT.NC222, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,200
NC55
FairOver: THUNDER SWAMP
0.3 MI.E.JCT.SR1117, Wayne, NC
Built 1962 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 4,200
NC111
FairOver: CABIN BRANCH
0.1 MI. S. JCT. SR1753, Wayne, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 6,000
SR1002
FairOver: DENNIS BRANCH
0.5 MI.W. OF JCT.SR 1330, Wayne, NC
Built 1970 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,600
SR1556
FairOver: STONEY CREEK
0.1 MI.N.JCT1569, Wayne, NC
Built 1962 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 27,500
SR1731
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER
0.2 MI. N. JCT. NC55, Wayne, NC
Built 1968 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 450
US70E NC111
FairOver: US13
0.65 MI.W.JCT.SR1711, Wayne, NC
Built 1974 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 14,000
US70BYP WB
FairOver: US13
0.65 MI.W.JCT.SR1711, Wayne, NC
Built 1974 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 14,000
US13 US70B NC111
FairOver: SR1560 AND A&EC.RR
185 N. OF JCT. SR1631, Wayne, NC
Built 1974 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 14,000
US13 N US70 E
FairOver: US70 E US70 BUS W
0.22 MI. S. JCT. SR1302, Wayne, NC
Built 1956 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 13,000
US13 US70 US117
FairOver: US70BUS.
0.22 MI.S. JCT SR1302, Wayne, NC
Built 1956 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 24,500
US13/US117S
FairOver: NEUSE RVR OVRFLW
0.15MI.S.JCT SR2108, Wayne, NC
Built 1979 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 31,000
US13/US70B
FairOver: SR1560 AND A&EC.RR.
0.26 MI.S.JCT.US70/US13N, Wayne, NC
Built 1974 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 14,000
SR1105
FairOver: JOHNSON BRANCH CREEK
0.7 MI. E. JCT. SR1105, Wayne, NC
Built 2017 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 240
US13/US117S
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER
0.3 MI N JCT SR1926, Wayne, NC
Built 1979 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 12,000
US70BUS
FairOver: STONEY CREEK
0.35MI.W.JCT.SR1565, Wayne, NC
Built 1970 Load: 37.1 t ADT: 15,500
NC581
FairOver: NEUSE RIVER
1.2 MI.N.JCT.SR1915, Wayne, NC
Built 1997 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 5,900
NC111
FairOver: POND OFF NEUSE RIVER
5.3 MI. N. JCT. NC55, Wayne, NC
Built 2001 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,800
US13 US70BYP US117
FairOver: SR1304
0.5 MI. N. JCT. US70 BUS., Wayne, NC
Built 1972 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 24,500
SR1006
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
0.9 MI N JCT SR 1121, Wayne, NC
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,500
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