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Jayuya County, PR

34 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 5.9% rated Good, 76.5% Fair, 17.6% Poor.

34
Public bridges: 5.9%
Good condition: 17.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Jayuya 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.

49th
of 74 on Poor share: 17.6%
Poor-condition share: 34
public highway bridges: 1964
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.

Jayuya County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jayuya County ranks #49 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 17.6%). Jayuya County, Puerto Rico contains 34 public highway bridges. Roughly 5.9% are rated “Good,” 76.5% “Fair,” and 17.6% “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 Jayuya County

Good condition

5.9%

2 of 34 rated 7-9

Fair condition

76.5%

26 of 34 rated 5-6

Poor condition

17.6%

6 of 34 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#49 of 74

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

Condition distribution

Share of 34 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

5.9% (2)

Fair

76.5% (26)

Poor

17.6% (6)

Jayuya County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,800 vehicle crossings a day

That is 17.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 17.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,467 crossings a day against 3,850 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 34 of 34 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

64.7% of Jayuya County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

22 of the 34 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 5.9% 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 79.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 144 over CARICABOA RIVER, built 1937, carries 11,700 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 14,800 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

3
1930s

4
1940s

3
1950s

3
1960s

3
1970s

10
1980s

3
1990s

2
2000s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 10 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 10 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.

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

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Jayuya County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 17.6% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 6 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Jayuya County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Guayanilla County	34	5.9%	73.5%	20.6%	1974
Jayuya County (this page)	34	5.9%	76.5%	17.6%	1964
Adjuntas County	33	9.1%	75.8%	15.2%	1960
Patillas County	32	21.9%	59.4%	18.8%	1970
San Sebastián County	31	16.1%	74.2%	9.7%	1966
Canóvanas County	30	36.7%	46.7%	16.7%	1979

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (34 bridges here).

Bear Lake County, ID · 34 bridges
Plaquemines County, LA · 34 bridges
Golden Valley County, ND · 34 bridges
Day County, SD · 34 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1964 here).

Bergen County, NJ · avg 1964 · 577 bridges
Morris County, NJ · avg 1964 · 508 bridges
Baltimore city County, MD · avg 1964 · 374 bridges
Ross County, OH · avg 1964 · 356 bridges

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

All 34 Good 2 Fair 26 Poor 6

Fair-condition bridges (26)

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Jayuya County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Jayuya County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,800 vehicle crossings a day

64.7% of Jayuya County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 79.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Jayuya 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 (26)

PR 528

PR 140

OFF PR 527

PR 140

PR 5527

PR 141R

KENNEDY STREET

PR 140

PR 140

PR 144

PR 141

PR 528

LOCAL ROAD

PR 144

OFF PR 144

VICENT STREET

PR 140

SOL STREET

PR 140

PR 144

PR 528

LOCAL ROAD

PR5144

PR 144

OFF SOL STREET

PR 144

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