Total bridges
259
Public highway bridges in Wayne County
County profile · official public datasets
Wayne County, PA
259 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 27% rated Good, 41.7% Fair, 31.3% Poor.
- 259
- Public bridges
- 27%
- Good condition
- 31.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wayne County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 67th
- of 67 on Poor share
- 31.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 259
- public highway bridges
- 1967
- 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 #67 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 31.3%). Wayne County, Pennsylvania contains 259 public highway bridges. Roughly 27% are rated “Good,” 41.7% “Fair,” and 31.3% “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
27%
70 of 259 rated 7-9
Fair condition
41.7%
108 of 259 rated 5-6
Poor condition
31.3%
81 of 259 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#67 of 67
Among Pennsylvania counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 259 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 27% (70)
Fair 41.7% (108)
Poor 31.3% (81)
Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 52,113 vehicle crossings a day
That is 15.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 31.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 643 crossings a day against 1,217 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 259 of 259 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
64.1% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
166 of the 259 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 27% 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 15.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 0006 TR 6 over MIDDLE CREEK, built 1958, carries 7,850 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 81-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 52,113 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
259 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 5
Built before 1900
5 bridges
- 1900s 6
1900–1909
6 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s 12
1920–1929
12 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
23 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
24 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
50 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
30 bridges
- 1970s 17
1970–1979
17 bridges
- 1980s 13
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s 17
1990–1999
17 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
24 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
33 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1967) matches the Pennsylvania average (1970).
How Wayne County compares with Pennsylvania's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 31.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Pennsylvania counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia County | 271 | 42.8% | 47.2% | 10% | 1965 |
| Lawrence County | 265 | 47.5% | 41.1% | 11.3% | 1978 |
| Armstrong County | 263 | 33.5% | 58.6% | 8% | 1976 |
| Wayne County (this page) | 259 | 27% | 41.7% | 31.3% | 1967 |
| Adams County | 254 | 36.2% | 57.1% | 6.7% | 1972 |
| Huntingdon County | 238 | 41.6% | 47.5% | 10.9% | 1966 |
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 Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PA (259 bridges here).
- Apache County, AZ · 259 bridges
- Gila County, AZ · 259 bridges
- Ellsworth County, KS · 259 bridges
- Hampshire County, MA · 259 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1967 here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
- Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
- Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges
- Shasta County, CA · avg 1967 · 492 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (108)
OCONNEL RD T-458
FairOver: VAN AUKEN CREEK
CANAAN TWP 2MI N SR 3028, Wayne, PA
Built 2015 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 270
SR 0006 TR 6
FairOver: LACKAWAXEN RIVER
PROMPTON BO .2M W SR 4003, Wayne, PA
Built 1943 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 7,151
SR 0247 TR 247
FairOver: WEST BR OF DYBERRY CREEK
MT PLSNT TWP .8 MN TR 371, Wayne, PA
Built 1937 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 1,129
SR 0371 TR 371
FairOver: JOHNSON CREEK
MT PLEASNT TP 1M W SR4029, Wayne, PA
Built 1992 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 434
ADAMS POND ROAD
FairOver: WILLIAMS POND INLET
1.3M WEST OF SR 1011, Wayne, PA
Built 1957 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 80
TR 196 EASTON TPK
FairOver: MIDDLE CREEK
LAKE TWP 150 S TR 296, Wayne, PA
Built 1953 Load: 75.3 t ADT: 1,607
GALLIK ROAD
FairOver: VAN AUKEN CREEK
200 S. OF RTE. 6, Wayne, PA
Built 2008 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 100
BALSAM SWAMP ROAD
FairOver: VAN AUKEN CREEK
.2 MI S. OF OLD RTE. 6, Wayne, PA
Built 2007 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 40
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