Total bridges
92
Public highway bridges in Caguas County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Caguas County's bridges were built
92 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 3
Built before 1900
3 bridges
- 1900s 6
1900–1909
6 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
18 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
27 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s 7
1990–1999
7 bridges
- 2000s 6
2000–2009
6 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
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.
| 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.
Good-condition bridges (10)
PR 34
GoodOver: PR 52
OVER PR 52 AT KM 18.4, Caguas, PR
Built 2000 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 14,400
PR 700
GoodOver: LA BARRA CREEK
6 KMS. NORTH OF CAGUAS., Caguas, PR
Built 2009 Load: 13.7 t ADT: 100
PR-52
GoodOver: PR-700
PR-52 KM 12.9, Caguas, PR
Built 2020 Load: 18.3 t ADT: 51,000
PR-52
GoodOver: ACCESS ROAD
PR-52 KM 12.5, Caguas, PR
Built 2020 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 51,000
PR 52
GoodOver: CREEK
7 KM NORTH OF CAGUAS, Caguas, PR
Built 1975 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 102,000
OFF PR 156 KM 56.4
GoodOver: CAGUITAS RIVER
5 km EAST OF AGUAS BUENAS, Caguas, PR
Built 2004 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 7,260
PR-52
GoodOver: LOCAL STREET RIO CA&
PR-52 KM 12.1, Caguas, PR
Built 2020 Load: 39.5 t ADT: 51,000
PR 183
GoodOver: LAS BAMBUAS CREEK
2 KM EAST OF CAGUAS, Caguas, PR
Built 1999 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 25,100
PR 789
GoodOver: LA BAMBUAS CREEK
6.0 KMS. S.E. OF CAGUAS, Caguas, PR
Built 2010 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 1,000
PR-52
GoodOver: PR-796
pr-52 km 13.8, Caguas, PR
Built 2020 Load: 59.1 t ADT: 51,000
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