Total bridges
11
Public highway bridges in Barceloneta County
County profile · official public datasets
Barceloneta County, PR
11 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 0% rated Good, 81.8% Fair, 18.2% Poor.
- 11
- Public bridges
- 0%
- Good condition
- 18.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Barceloneta 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.
- 51st
- of 74 on Poor share
- 18.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 11
- public highway bridges
- 1982
- 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.
Barceloneta County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Barceloneta County ranks #51 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 18.2%). Barceloneta County, Puerto Rico contains 11 public highway bridges. Roughly 0% are rated “Good,” 81.8% “Fair,” and 18.2% “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
0%
0 of 11 rated 7-9
Fair condition
81.8%
9 of 11 rated 5-6
Poor condition
18.2%
2 of 11 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#51 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 11 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 0% (0)
Fair 81.8% (9)
Poor 18.2% (2)
Barceloneta County's Poor-condition bridges carry 54,800 vehicle crossings a day
That is 19.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 18.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. 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 11 of 11 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
36.4% of Barceloneta County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
4 of the 11 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 0% 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 94% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 22 over PAJUIL STREET, built 1992, carries 51,500 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 54,800 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Barceloneta County's bridges were built
11 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1950s
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
6 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 54.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1982, 8 years newer than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Barceloneta County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Barceloneta County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 18.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 9 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguadilla County | 13 | 15.4% | 53.8% | 30.8% | 1963 |
| Aguas Buenas County | 13 | 15.4% | 84.6% | 0% | 1966 |
| Arroyo County | 13 | 23.1% | 61.5% | 15.4% | 1988 |
| Santa Isabel County | 12 | 0% | 75% | 25% | 1970 |
| Trujillo Alto County | 12 | 16.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 1980 |
| Barceloneta County (this page) | 11 | 0% | 81.8% | 18.2% | 1982 |
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 Barceloneta 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 Barceloneta County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (11 bridges here).
- Liberty County, MT · 11 bridges
- McIntosh County, ND · 11 bridges
- Armstrong County, TX · 11 bridges
- Lamb County, TX · 11 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1982 here).
- Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
- Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
- Milwaukee County, WI · avg 1982 · 893 bridges
- Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (9)
PR-140
FairOver: DRAINAGE CHANNEL
KM 69, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1969 Load: 3.3 t ADT: 7,500
PR 684
FairOver: BOCAS CHANNEL
1.6 MILE N OF BARCELONETA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1957 Load: 20.1 t ADT: 1,600
PR 140
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
INT PR 6204, Barceloneta, PR
Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,600
PR 22 EASTBOUND
FairOver: MANATI RIVER PR 204 &
AT SOUTH OF BARCELONETA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1994 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 23,950
PR 22 WESTBOUND
FairOver: MANATI RIVER PR 204 &
SOUTH OF BARCELONETA TOWN, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1994 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 47,900
PR 22
FairOver: RURAL LOCAL ROAD
3 KM WEST OF BARCELONETA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1992 Load: 61.8 t ADT: 43,800
PR 22
FairOver: PR 140
4 KM S W OF BARCELONETA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1992 Load: 69.6 t ADT: 43,800
PR 22
FairOver: STREET 3
3.5 KM S E OF BARCELONETA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1992 Load: 73.7 t ADT: 43,800
PR 667
FairOver: DEPRESSION
3.5 KM N E OF FLORIDA, Barceloneta, PR
Built 1954 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 7,800
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