San Pedro de la Paz in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Pedro de la Paz plotted against Bío-Bío and Chile. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, San Pedro de la Paz's incremental SNDi rose from 4.17 to 4.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Pedro de la Paz ranked 5th out of 6 cities in Bío-Bío and 35th out of 38 in Chile as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Jiaganj Azimganj, India
• Gambela, Ethiopia
• Honjo, Japan
• Bragança, Brazil
• Yongxing, China
• Novovolynsk, Ukraine

In new street additions, San Pedro de la Paz and Bragança both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Jiaganj Azimganj built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, San Pedro de la Paz became progressively more disconnected, while Jiaganj Azimganj grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Bragança fluctuated in connectivity. San Pedro de la Paz and Bragança have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.