Ejura 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 Ejura plotted against Ashanti and Ghana. While Ashanti and Ghana both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Ejura's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Ejura's incremental SNDi rose from 1.92 to 2.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ejura ranked 1st out of 7 cities in Ashanti and 6th out of 53 in Ghana as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Sayad, Afghanistan
• Kelibia, Tunisia
• Paniqui, Philippines
• Corozal, Colombia
• Senhor do Bonfim, Brazil
• Raniganj, India

In new street additions, Ejura and Corozal both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sayad built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Ejura fluctuated in connectivity, while Sayad grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Corozal became progressively more disconnected. Ejura and Sayad have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.