Total bridges
25
Public highway bridges in Villalba County
County profile · official public datasets
Villalba County, PR
25 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 24% rated Good, 56% Fair, 20% Poor.
- 25
- Public bridges
- 24%
- Good condition
- 20%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Villalba County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 57th
- of 74 on Poor share
- 20%
- Poor-condition share
- 25
- public highway bridges
- 1976
- 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.
Villalba County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Villalba County ranks #57 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 20%). Villalba County, Puerto Rico contains 25 public highway bridges. Roughly 24% are rated “Good,” 56% “Fair,” and 20% “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
24%
6 of 25 rated 7-9
Fair condition
56%
14 of 25 rated 5-6
Poor condition
20%
5 of 25 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#57 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 25 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 24% (6)
Fair 56% (14)
Poor 20% (5)
Villalba County's Poor-condition bridges carry 25,150 vehicle crossings a day
That is 21% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 20% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 5,030 crossings a day against 1,692 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 25 of 25 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
48% of Villalba County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
12 of the 25 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 24% 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 69.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 149 over GUAYABAL RIVER, built 1949, carries 17,400 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 25,150 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Villalba County's bridges were built
25 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 5 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Puerto Rico average (1974).
How Villalba County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Villalba County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 20% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabana Grande County | 27 | 14.8% | 85.2% | 0% | 1976 |
| Guánica County | 25 | 12% | 84% | 4% | 1979 |
| Peñuelas County | 25 | 16% | 72% | 12% | 1975 |
| Villalba County (this page) | 25 | 24% | 56% | 20% | 1976 |
| Las Piedras County | 24 | 8.3% | 83.3% | 8.3% | 1975 |
| Vega Baja County | 23 | 13% | 69.6% | 17.4% | 1976 |
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 Villalba 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 Villalba County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (25 bridges here).
- Kodiak Island County, AK · 25 bridges
- Schley County, GA · 25 bridges
- Lane County, KS · 25 bridges
- Benzie County, MI · 25 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1976 here).
- Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (5)
PR 151
PoorOver: JACAGUAS RIVER
EAST SIDE OF VILLALBA, Villalba, PR
Built 1990 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 7,200
PR 149
PoorOver: GUAYABAL RIVER
4 KM NORTH OF JUANA DIAZ, Villalba, PR
Built 1949 Load: 9.6 t ADT: 17,400
LOCAL ROAD
PoorOver: JOBITOS CREEK
0.5 KM EAST OF VILLALBA, Villalba, PR
Built 1958 Load: 18.3 t ADT: 100
OFF PR 561
PoorOver: UNKNOWN CREEK
2.5 KM NE OF VILLALBA, Villalba, PR
Built 2003 Load: 21.2 t ADT: 100
OFF PR 561
PoorOver: PULGA CREEK
0.1 KM FROM PR 561, Villalba, PR
Built 1987 Load: 42.8 t ADT: 350
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