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Hocking County, OH

293 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 71.7% rated Good, 27.6% Fair, 0.7% Poor.

293
Public bridges: 71.7%
Good condition: 0.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hocking County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 8%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.7%
Poor-condition share: 293
public highway bridges: 1985
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.

Hocking County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hocking County ranks #7 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Hocking County, Ohio contains 293 public highway bridges. Roughly 71.7% are rated “Good,” 27.6% “Fair,” and 0.7% “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

293

Public highway bridges in Hocking County

Good condition

71.7%

210 of 293 rated 7-9

Fair condition

27.6%

81 of 293 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.7%

2 of 293 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#7 of 88

Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 293 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

71.7% (210)

Fair

27.6% (81)

Poor

0.7% (2)

Hocking County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,379 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 6,690 crossings a day against 1,505 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 293 of 293 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

34.8% of Hocking County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

102 of the 293 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 71.7% 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 92.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 93 over C&O RAILROAD, built 1969, carries 12,367 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,379 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

9
1910s

1
1920s

6
1930s

11
1940s

11
1950s

27
1960s

23
1970s

17
1980s

10
1990s

50
2000s

66
2010s

59
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 66 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1985, 8 years newer than the Ohio average of 1977.

How Hocking County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Hocking County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 10 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hocking County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Athens County	309	54%	39.2%	6.8%	1975
Ashtabula County	305	72.5%	23.9%	3.6%	1967
Sandusky County	303	71%	27.1%	2%	1974
Hocking County (this page)	293	71.7%	27.6%	0.7%	1985
Ashland County	283	65%	32.5%	2.5%	1980
Logan County	281	78.3%	20.6%	1.1%	1979

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 Hocking 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 Hocking County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (293 bridges here).

Boone County, IN · 293 bridges
Delaware County, IA · 293 bridges
Franklin County, PA · 294 bridges
Bedford County, TN · 294 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1985 here).

Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges

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

All 293 Good 210 Fair 81 Poor 2

Fair-condition bridges (81)

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Hocking County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hocking County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,379 vehicle crossings a day

34.8% of Hocking County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 92.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hocking County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (81)

BEAR RUN

WAGNER

STOUT

SPENCER HOLLOW

FRASURE-HELBER

KLUMP

MAYSVILLE-WILLIAMS

GOOSE CREEK

CULBERTSON

MOHLER

BREMEN

ILESBORO

MOORE

ROADS

SR 93

SR 595

MIDDLEFORK

BLACKJACK

DAWLEY-NEW PITSBUR

SR 93

BIG PINE

BUCKINGHAM

GOOSE RUN

MIDDLEFORK

SALEM

ROCKY BOOTS WAY

REED

LAUREL RUN

USR 33

PLEASANT VALLEY

MIDDLEFORK

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