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Caguas County, PR

92 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 10.9% rated Good, 78.3% Fair, 10.9% Poor.

92
Public bridges: 10.9%
Good condition: 10.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 30%
lowest Poor share in state: 10.9%
Poor-condition share: 92
public highway bridges: 1965
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.

Caguas County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Caguas County ranks #22 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.9%). Caguas County, Puerto Rico contains 92 public highway bridges. Roughly 10.9% are rated “Good,” 78.3% “Fair,” and 10.9% “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 Caguas County

Good condition

10.9%

10 of 92 rated 7-9

Fair condition

78.3%

72 of 92 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10.9%

10 of 92 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#22 of 74

Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 92 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

10.9% (10)

Fair

78.3% (72)

Poor

10.9% (10)

Caguas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 248,688 vehicle crossings a day

That is 8.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 24,869 crossings a day against 35,386 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 92 of 92 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

60.9% of Caguas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

56 of the 92 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 10.9% 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 39.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 52 over CAGUITAS RIVER, built 1964, carries 98,538 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 248,688 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

3
1900s

6
1920s

2
1930s

3
1940s

2
1950s

9
1960s

18
1970s

27
1980s

4
1990s

7
2000s

6
2010s

1
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 27 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 9 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.

How Caguas County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Caguas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.9% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 14 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Caguas County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Caguas County (this page)	92	10.9%	78.3%	10.9%	1965
Cayey County	81	6.2%	82.7%	11.1%	1967
Bayamón County	78	14.1%	75.6%	10.3%	1977
Carolina County	73	28.8%	60.3%	11%	1983
Humacao County	69	26.1%	60.9%	13%	1985
Guaynabo County	63	28.6%	61.9%	9.5%	1981

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 Caguas 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 Caguas County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (92 bridges here).

Douglas County, GA · 92 bridges
Taylor County, KY · 92 bridges
Waldo County, ME · 92 bridges
Camden County, MO · 92 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1965 here).

Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
Bedford County, PA · avg 1965 · 417 bridges
Crawford County, PA · avg 1965 · 399 bridges
Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges

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

All 92 Good 10 Fair 72 Poor 10

Fair-condition bridges (72)

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Caguas County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Caguas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 248,688 vehicle crossings a day

60.9% of Caguas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 39.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Caguas County compares with Puerto Rico'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 (72)

PR 798

PR 765

PR 1

PR 761

PR 32

PR 52 NORTHBOUND

PR 52 SOUTHBOUND

OFF PR 183

BAIROA AVENUE

CATALINA AVENUE

RAMP PR30 TO PR 52

OFF PR 784 KM 4.12

PR 1

PR 30

PR-30

PR 1

OFF PR 796

RAFAEL CORDERO AVE

PR 52

PR 798

PR 784

PR 1

PR 52 SOUTHBOUND

PR 52

PR 784

ZORZAL STREET

PR 156

WILSON STREET

PR 52 NORTHBOUND

AVE PRNCPL KM 16.2

ALHMB EN GRNDA BVD

PR 7765

PR 183

PR 156

PR 156

PR 52

PR 52 SOUTHBOUND

PR 52 NORTHBOUND

ALAHAMBRE

PR 52

OFF PR 784

ALHMBRA GRNDA BLV

PR 52 NORTHBOUND

PR 52 SOUTHBOUND

RAMP PR 52 TO PR 1

PR 52

PR 1

PR 1 RAMAL

PR 52

PR 30 WESTBOUND

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