Total bridges
3,230
Public highway bridges in Dallas County
County profile · official public datasets
Dallas County, TX
3,230 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 42.5% rated Good, 56.4% Fair, 1% Poor.
- 3,230
- Public bridges
- 42.5%
- Good condition
- 1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Dallas County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.
- 132nd
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1%
- Poor-condition share
- 3,230
- public highway bridges
- 1983
- 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.
Dallas County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dallas County ranks #132 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1%). Dallas County, Texas contains 3,230 public highway bridges. Roughly 42.5% are rated “Good,” 56.4% “Fair,” and 1% “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
42.5%
1,374 of 3,230 rated 7-9
Fair condition
56.4%
1,823 of 3,230 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1%
33 of 3,230 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#132 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 3,230 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 42.5% (1,374)
Fair 56.4% (1,823)
Poor 1% (33)
Dallas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,373,701 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 41,627 crossings a day against 20,944 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 3,230 of 3,230 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
41.4% of Dallas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
1,338 of the 3,230 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 42.5% 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 14.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
IH 35E over Oak Lawn Ave & Turtle Ck, built 1959, carries 194,462 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 33-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,373,701 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Dallas County's bridges were built
3,230 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 7
1910–1919
7 bridges
- 1920s 12
1920–1929
12 bridges
- 1930s 62
1930–1939
62 bridges
- 1940s 58
1940–1949
58 bridges
- 1950s 232
1950–1959
232 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
570 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
619 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
411 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
321 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
433 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
425 bridges
- 2020s 78
2020–2029
78 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 619 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1983) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Dallas County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Dallas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1989 is 6 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris County | 4,029 | 50.7% | 48.7% | 0.6% | 1989 |
| Dallas County (this page) | 3,230 | 42.5% | 56.4% | 1% | 1983 |
| Tarrant County | 2,617 | 58.2% | 41.4% | 0.4% | 1990 |
| Bexar County | 2,342 | 55% | 44.7% | 0.3% | 1983 |
| Travis County | 1,544 | 63.9% | 35.9% | 0.2% | 1988 |
| Williamson County | 1,170 | 67.4% | 32.2% | 0.3% | 1995 |
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 Dallas 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 Dallas County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (3,230 bridges here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · 3,547 bridges
- Maricopa County, AZ · 2,847 bridges
- Cook County, IL · 1,721 bridges
- San Diego County, CA · 1,632 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1983 here).
- Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
- Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges
- Bernalillo County, NM · avg 1983 · 496 bridges
- Black Hawk County, IA · avg 1983 · 489 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (1,823)
WINTERGREEN RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK TRIB
0.1 MI W OF WESTMORELAN, Dallas, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,900
WINTERGREEN RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK TRIB
0.3 MI W OF POLK ST, Dallas, TX
Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,000
EAST FORK RD
FairOver: DUCK CREEK
1.7 MI N OF US 80, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 800
TRIPP RD
FairOver: LONG CREEK BRANCH
0.3 MI W OF COLLINS RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,436
LAWSON RD
FairOver: LONG CREEK
0.05 MI N OF SCYENE RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1976 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,170
WHEATLAND RD
FairOver: MAUK CREEK
0.5 MI W OF S MAIN ST, Dallas, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 15,376
E Center St
FairOver: Mauk Branch
0.55 MI E of Main St, Dallas, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,350
S MAIN ST
FairOver: MAUK CREEK
0.1 MI S OF DANIELDALE, Dallas, TX
Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10,123
S Main St
FairOver: Ten Mile Creek
0.25 Mi N of US 67, Dallas, TX
Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10,000
DANIELDALE RD WB
FairOver: MAUK CREEK
0.12 MI W OF S MAIN ST, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 15,989
DANIELDALE RD EB
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK
0.4 MI E OF CEDAR HILL, Dallas, TX
Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 13,800
DANIELDALE RD EB
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK TRIB
1.7 MI W OF US 67, Dallas, TX
Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,000
Green Hills Rd
FairOver: Ten Mile Creek
0.15 Mi S of Big Stone, Dallas, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 390
CEDAR HILL RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK
0.3 MI N OF DANIELDALE, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,909
JOE WILSON RD
FairOver: BENTLE BRANCH
0.1 MI SE OF CEDAR HILL, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,100
PLEASANT RUN RD
FairOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK TRIB
0.2 MI E OF IH 45, Dallas, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,100
KLEBERG RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK TRIB
0.4 MI NW OF SIMONDS RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400
MALLOY BRIDGE RD
FairOver: E FORK TRINITY RIVER
0.25 MI SW OF KAUFMAN CO, Dallas, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 320
MALLOY BRIDGE RD
FairOver: E FK TRINITY RIV REL
1.20 MI NE OF US 175, Dallas, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 320
CAPRICORN ST
FairOver: RED OAK CREEK
0.2 MI W of S Clark Rd, Dallas, TX
Built 1998 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 231
Oak Gate Ln
FairOver: Lake June Branch
0.2 Mi W of N Masters Dr, Dallas, TX
Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,200
East 14th St.
FairOver: Drainage Ditch
0.05 Mi SW of Royal Ln, Dallas, TX
Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 231
Cavern Dr
FairOver: S Mesquite Creek Trib
0.20 MI E of McKenzie Rd, Dallas, TX
Built 2003 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400
BEAR CREEK RD
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
0.1 MI E OF IH 35, Dallas, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,200
WEST MAIN ST
FairOver: MILL BRANCH CREEK
1.2 MI W OF BELT LINE RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1954 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,350
Belt Line Rd
FairOver: Ten Mile Creek Trib
0.10 MI W OF FERRIS RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,630
BELT LINE RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK TRIB
0.30 MI E OF IH 35E, Dallas, TX
Built 1955 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 18,303
BLUEGROVE DR
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK
0.2 MI S OF WEST MAIN ST, Dallas, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 602
Houston School Rd
FairOver: Bear Creek
0.20 MI S OF BEAR CREEK, Dallas, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,330
HOUSTON SCHOOL RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK
0.2 MILES S OF W MAIN ST, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,570
University Hills
FairOver: Ricketts Branch Trib
0.20 MI N of IH 20, Dallas, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 11,100
JEFFERSON RD
FairOver: KELLER BRANCH
0.1 MI S OF PLEASANT RUN, Dallas, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,038
Lancaster Hutchins
FairOver: Keller Branch
0.02 MI NE OF NOKOMIS RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1952 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,943
MAIN ST
FairOver: KELLER BRANCH
0.1 MI W OF SH 342, Dallas, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 6,530
MAIN ST
FairOver: KELLER BRANCH
0.30 MI E OF DALLAS AVE, Dallas, TX
Built 1958 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 373
PLEASANT RUN RD
FairOver: TEN MILE CREEK TRIBUTARY
0.30 MI E OF IH 35E, Dallas, TX
Built 1972 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,150
PLEASANT RUN RD
FairOver: MILL BRANCH
0.10 MI E OF HOUSTON SCH, Dallas, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,150
PLEASANT RUN RD EB
FairOver: DEEP BRANCH
0.30 MI E OF BLUEGROVE, Dallas, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,075
PLEASANT RUN RD
FairOver: KELLER BRANCH
0.02 MI W OF JEFFERSON, Dallas, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 6,427
PLEASANT RUN RD WB
FairOver: DEEP BRANCH
0.30 MI E OF BLUEGROVE, Dallas, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,075
TELEPHONE RD
FairOver: NEWTON CREEK TRIB
0.1 MI W OF SH 342, Dallas, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,000
WINTERGREEN RD
FairOver: DEEP BRANCH CREEK
0.10 MI SW OF AMES RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 510
BRUTON RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
AT PEACHTREE INTERSECTION, Dallas, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10,300
HICKORY TREE RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK TRIB
0.45 MI S OF ELAM RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1958 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,983
LAKE JUNE RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
1.00 MI W OF IH 635, Dallas, TX
Built 1951 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 11,150
Mercury Rd
FairOver: S Mesquite Creek Trib
0.50 MI NE of Belt Line, Dallas, TX
Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,500
RYLIE-CREST DR
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK
0.2 MI EAST OF IH 635, Dallas, TX
Built 1994 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,475
SEAGOVILLE RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK TRIB
0.8 MI E OF IH 635, Dallas, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,780
SEAGOVILLE RD
FairOver: HICKORY CREEK TRIB
0.3 MI E OF IH 635, Dallas, TX
Built 1986 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,827
OAKS NORTH DRIVE
FairOver: WHITE ROCK CREEK TRIB
0.1 MI S OF BELT LINE RD, Dallas, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 285
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