Santa Cruz de Barahona 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 Santa Cruz de Barahona plotted against Barahona and Dominican Republic. The SNDi of new construction in Santa Cruz de Barahona followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Barahona which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Dominican Republic which rose steadily. Most recently, Santa Cruz de Barahona's incremental SNDi rose from 1.66 to 2.13 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Santa Cruz de Barahona ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Barahona and 3rd out of 17 in Dominican Republic as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Selu, India
• Sheki, Azerbaijan
• Rosales, Philippines
• Bhushan Steel City, India
• Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Jadcherla, India

In new street additions, Santa Cruz de Barahona fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Selu built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Bhushan Steel City fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Santa Cruz de Barahona and Selu both became progressively more disconnected, while Bhushan Steel City fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Santa Cruz de Barahona had a more sprawly network than Selu in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.