San Miguel in context: Street-network sprawl trends

San Miguel in context

23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
San MiguelEl Salvador (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Miguel plotted against El Salvador. Both San Miguel and El Salvador follow the same trend. Most recently, San Miguel's incremental SNDi rose from 4.45 to 4.51 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Miguel ranked 1st out of 12 in El Salvador as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
4.51
Rank in El Salvador
1st of 12

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
3.18
Rank in El Salvador
1st of 12

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

What about similarly populated cities?

23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
San MiguelRafiganjDigha

In new street additions, San Miguel and Digha both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Rafiganj fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. San Miguel and Digha have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.