Sonsonate in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sonsonate in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sonsonate plotted against El Salvador. Both Sonsonate and El Salvador follow the same trend. Most recently, Sonsonate's incremental SNDi rose from 5.07 to 6.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sonsonate ranked 8th out of 12 in El Salvador as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.37
- Rank in El Salvador
- 11th of 12
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.47
- Rank in El Salvador
- 8th of 12
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Zhongxiang, China
- Chengarchar, Bangladesh
- Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Chiping, China
- Foumban, Cameroon
- Dazhu, China
In new street additions, Sonsonate built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Zhongxiang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Chiping built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Sonsonate and Zhongxiang both became progressively more disconnected, while Chiping became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Sonsonate and Chiping have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.