Yuekou in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Yuekou in context

1.82.73.64.5<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
1.82.73.64.5<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
YuekouHubei (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Yuekou plotted against Hubei and China. While Hubei and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Yuekou's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Yuekou's incremental SNDi rose from 2.52 to 3.12 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Yuekou ranked 21st out of 77 cities in Hubei and 542nd out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
3.12
Rank in China
952nd of 1843
Rank in Hubei
38th of 77

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.44
Rank in China
542nd of 1843
Rank in Hubei
21st of 77

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

What about similarly populated cities?

234<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
234<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
YuekouPuerto CortesSangaredi

While Puerto Cortés and Sangarédi both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Yuekou fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Yuekou had a more sprawly network than Puerto Cortés in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.