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Walker County, TX

163 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46% rated Good, 53.4% Fair, 0.6% Poor.

163
Public bridges: 46%
Good condition: 0.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Walker County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 44%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.6%
Poor-condition share: 163
public highway bridges: 1984
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.

Walker County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Walker County ranks #109 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Walker County, Texas contains 163 public highway bridges. Roughly 46% are rated “Good,” 53.4% “Fair,” and 0.6% “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

163

Public highway bridges in Walker County

Good condition

46%

75 of 163 rated 7-9

Fair condition

53.4%

87 of 163 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.6%

1 of 163 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#109 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 163 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46% (75)

Fair

53.4% (87)

Poor

0.6% (1)

Walker County's Poor-condition bridges carry 70 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 70 crossings a day against 9,981 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 163 of 163 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

41.7% of Walker County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

68 of the 163 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 46% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

HIGHLAND DR over HARMON CREEK, built 1940, carries 70 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 70 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

7
1940s

5
1950s

20
1960s

32
1970s

8
1980s

15
1990s

9
2000s

26
2010s

26
2020s

14

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 32 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Texas average (1980).

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Walker County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 12 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Walker County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Freestone County	167	38.3%	60.5%	1.2%	1978
Nolan County	166	43.4%	54.2%	2.4%	1964
Red River County	163	44.2%	55.8%	0%	1975
Walker County (this page)	163	46%	53.4%	0.6%	1984
Crockett County	160	56.9%	42.5%	0.6%	1965
Leon County	160	40.6%	55.6%	3.8%	1976

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (163 bridges here).

Mercer County, IL · 163 bridges
Jennings County, IN · 163 bridges
Wayne County, IA · 163 bridges
Jackson County, LA · 163 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1984 here).

Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
Steuben County, NY · avg 1984 · 627 bridges

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

All 163 Good 75 Fair 87 Poor 1

Good-condition bridges (75)

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Walker County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Walker County's Poor-condition bridges carry 70 vehicle crossings a day

41.7% of Walker County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Walker 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

Good-condition bridges (75)

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