Mamfe in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Mamfe in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Mamfe plotted against Sud-Ouest and Cameroon. While Sud-Ouest and Cameroon both rose steadily, Mamfe's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Mamfe's incremental SNDi rose from 5.61 to 7.02 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mamfe ranked 5th out of 5 cities in Sud-Ouest and 35th out of 44 in Cameroon as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.02
- Rank in Cameroon
- 36th of 44
- Rank in Sud-Ouest
- 5th of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.37
- Rank in Cameroon
- 35th of 44
- Rank in Sud-Ouest
- 5th of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Mamfe and Ataye both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Fianga fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Mamfe and Ataye both became progressively more disconnected, while Fianga grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Mamfe and Ataye have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.