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Kerr County, TX

174 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.8% rated Good, 39.1% Fair, 1.1% Poor.

174
Public bridges: 59.8%
Good condition: 1.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Kerr County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

141st
of 247 on Poor share: 1.1%
Poor-condition share: 174
public highway bridges: 1968
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.

Kerr County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kerr County ranks #141 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.1%). Kerr County, Texas contains 174 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.8% are rated “Good,” 39.1% “Fair,” and 1.1% “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.

Total bridges

174

Public highway bridges in Kerr County

Good condition

59.8%

104 of 174 rated 7-9

Fair condition

39.1%

68 of 174 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.1%

2 of 174 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#141 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 174 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

59.8% (104)

Fair

39.1% (68)

Poor

1.1% (2)

Kerr County's Poor-condition bridges carry 892 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 446 crossings a day against 4,404 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 174 of 174 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

71.8% of Kerr County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

125 of the 174 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 59.8% 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 67.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CROSSING ST over GUADALUPE RIVER, built 1925, carries 601 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 892 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

6
1930s

30
1940s

8
1950s

7
1960s

23
1970s

61
1980s

6
1990s

6
2000s

15
2010s

10
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 61 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1968, 12 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

How Kerr County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Kerr County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.1% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 11 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Kerr County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Waller County	177	43.5%	55.4%	1.1%	1987
Anderson County	176	57.4%	42.6%	0%	1978
Atascosa County	176	61.4%	38.1%	0.6%	1970
Shelby County	176	49.4%	46%	4.5%	1986
Kerr County (this page)	174	59.8%	39.1%	1.1%	1968
Jackson County	170	50%	48.8%	1.2%	1975

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (174 bridges here).

Hempstead County, AR · 174 bridges
Eagle County, CO · 174 bridges
Washington County, IN · 174 bridges
Lac qui Parle County, MN · 174 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1968 here).

Montgomery County, PA · avg 1968 · 828 bridges
San Joaquin County, CA · avg 1968 · 644 bridges
Providence County, RI · avg 1968 · 476 bridges
Imperial County, CA · avg 1968 · 444 bridges

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

All 174 Good 104 Fair 68 Poor 2

All bridges (174)

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Kerr County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Kerr County's Poor-condition bridges carry 892 vehicle crossings a day

71.8% of Kerr County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 67.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Kerr County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (174)

CR 281 / EHLERS RD

SH 41

FM 1340

SH 27

SH 27

SH 41

SH 41

SH 41

SH 41

SH 16

FM 1340

FM 1340

SH 39

SH 16

FM 1340

HUMILIUS LANE

CENTER POINT DR

MO RANCH RD

BEAR CREEK RD

LEGION CROSSING RD

SH 173

SH 27

SH 27

FM 1341

IH 10 WB

SH 39

SH 27

SH 39

SH 27

SH 27

IH 10 WB

IH 10 EB

IH 10 WB

FM 480

ARCADIA LOOP

SH 27

IH 10 WB

IH 10 EB

SH 16

FM 1341

IH 10 EB

SH 16

SH 16

SH 27

SH 27

SH 27

SH 27

SH 27

IH 10 EB

SH 27

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