Total bridges
14
Public highway bridges in Barranquitas County
County profile · official public datasets
Barranquitas County, PR
14 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 21.4% rated Good, 57.1% Fair, 21.4% Poor.
- 14
- Public bridges
- 21.4%
- Good condition
- 21.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Barranquitas 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.
- 63rd
- of 74 on Poor share
- 21.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 14
- public highway bridges
- 1962
- 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.
Barranquitas County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Barranquitas County ranks #63 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 21.4%). Barranquitas County, Puerto Rico contains 14 public highway bridges. Roughly 21.4% are rated “Good,” 57.1% “Fair,” and 21.4% “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
21.4%
3 of 14 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.1%
8 of 14 rated 5-6
Poor condition
21.4%
3 of 14 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#63 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 14 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 21.4% (3)
Fair 57.1% (8)
Poor 21.4% (3)
Barranquitas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,400 vehicle crossings a day
That is 8.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 21.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,800 crossings a day against 4,167 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 14 of 14 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
64.3% of Barranquitas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
9 of the 14 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 21.4% 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 66.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 156 over BOTIJAS RIVER, built 1940, carries 3,600 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 5,400 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Barranquitas County's bridges were built
14 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 4 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1962, 12 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Barranquitas County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Barranquitas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 21.4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1962 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aibonito County | 15 | 13.3% | 66.7% | 20% | 1970 |
| Manatí County | 15 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1978 |
| Morovis County | 15 | 13.3% | 60% | 26.7% | 1959 |
| Barranquitas County (this page) | 14 | 21.4% | 57.1% | 21.4% | 1962 |
| Aguadilla County | 13 | 15.4% | 53.8% | 30.8% | 1963 |
| Aguas Buenas County | 13 | 15.4% | 84.6% | 0% | 1966 |
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 Barranquitas 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 Barranquitas County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (14 bridges here).
- Seward County, KS · 14 bridges
- Rock County, NE · 14 bridges
- McPherson County, SD · 14 bridges
- Yakutat City and County, AK · 15 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1962 here).
- Berks County, PA · avg 1962 · 667 bridges
- Pecos County, TX · avg 1962 · 470 bridges
- Bristol County, MA · avg 1962 · 384 bridges
- Norfolk County, MA · avg 1962 · 343 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (3)
0FF PR-156 AT13.50
GoodOver: TRES CRUCES RIVER
2.1 KM. NE. BARRANQUITAS, Barranquitas, PR
Built 2011 Load: 13.1 t ADT: 100
PR 770
GoodOver: UNKNOWN CREEK
5 KM N W OF BARRANQUITAS, Barranquitas, PR
Built 1970 Load: 36.1 t ADT: 500
PR 152R
GoodOver: PI%ONA RIVER
500 MTS W. BARRANQUITAS, Barranquitas, PR
Built 1998 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 11,900
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