Jaú in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Jau in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jaú plotted against São Paulo and Brazil. While São Paulo and Brazil both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Jaú's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Jaú's incremental SNDi rose from 1.77 to 2.11 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jaú ranked 15th out of 76 cities in São Paulo and 53rd out of 365 in Brazil as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.11
- Rank in Brazil
- 66th of 365
- Rank in São Paulo
- 6th of 76
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.64
- Rank in Brazil
- 53rd of 365
- Rank in São Paulo
- 15th of 76
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Visalia, United States
- Kennewick, United States
- Colchester, United Kingdom
- Dibiyapur, India
- Masaka, Uganda
- Jahrom County, Iran
In new street additions, Jaú fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Visalia built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Dibiyapur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Jaú and Visalia both became progressively more disconnected, while Dibiyapur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Jaú and Dibiyapur have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.