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Hampton city County, VA

50 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 20% rated Good, 74% Fair, 6% Poor.

50
Public bridges: 20%
Good condition: 6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hampton city County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

96th
of 129 on Poor share: 6%
Poor-condition share: 50
public highway bridges: 1979
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.

Hampton city County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hampton city County ranks #96 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6%). Hampton city County, Virginia contains 50 public highway bridges. Roughly 20% are rated “Good,” 74% “Fair,” and 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

Public highway bridges in Hampton city County

Good condition

20%

10 of 50 rated 7-9

Fair condition

74%

37 of 50 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3 of 50 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#96 of 129

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

Condition distribution

Share of 50 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

20% (10)

Fair

74% (37)

Poor

6% (3)

Hampton city County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,250 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 417 crossings a day against 15,727 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 50 of 50 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

36% of Hampton city County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

18 of the 50 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 20% 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 80% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KING STREET over SW BRANCH BACK RIVER, built 1934, carries 1,000 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,250 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

2
1940s

1
1950s

1
1960s

7
1970s

7
1980s

22
1990s

3
2000s

4
2010s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 44% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1979, 5 years newer than the Virginia average of 1974.

How Hampton city County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Virginia counties nearest Hampton city County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 5 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hampton city County and the 5 Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Fluvanna County	55	40%	58.2%	1.8%	1974
Highland County	53	49.1%	45.3%	5.7%	1965
Danville city County	50	56%	40%	4%	1975
Portsmouth city County	50	32%	66%	2%	1986
Hampton city County (this page)	50	20%	74%	6%	1979
Greene County	49	18.4%	75.5%	6.1%	1970

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 Hampton city 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 Hampton city County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside VA (50 bridges here).

Oglethorpe County, GA · 50 bridges
Randolph County, GA · 50 bridges
Putnam County, IL · 50 bridges
Simpson County, KY · 50 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1979 here).

Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges

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

All 50 Good 10 Fair 37 Poor 3

Fair-condition bridges (37)

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Hampton city County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hampton city County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,250 vehicle crossings a day

36% of Hampton city County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 80% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hampton city County compares with Virginia'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 (37)

BIG BETHEL ROAD

QUEEN STREET

664NB To 64EB Ramp

SWEENEY BLVD

RTE. 351 PEMBR. AV

RTE. 172 CMDR.SHEP

64WB To 664SB Ramp

Mallory Street

HAM.ROADS CEN. PK.

LaSalle Avenue

LaSalle Ave. NBL

LaSalle Ave. SBL

WYTHE CREEK ROAD

Settlers Lndg. Rd.

664NB To 64WB Ramp

EBL CUNNINGHAM DR.

WBL CUNNINGHAM DR.

Beach Road

ABERDEEN ROAD

Power Plant Pkwy

MAGRUDER BLVD.

MERCURY BLVD.

Big Bethel Road

WBL MERCURY BLVD.

Mallory Street

Mercury Blvd WBL

MERCURY BLVD.

CHESAPEAKE AVE.

MERCURY BLVD.

MELLEN STREET

Mercury Blvd EBL

HRCP WBL

Pine Chapel Road

Powhatan Parkway

EBL HMPT.RDS.C PW.

WBL HAMP RDS C PW

HRCP

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