El Estor in context: Street-network sprawl trends
El Estor in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with El Estor plotted against Izabal and Guatemala. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, El Estor's incremental SNDi rose from 1.91 to 2.55 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, El Estor ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Izabal and 1st out of 31 in Guatemala as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.55
- Rank in Guatemala
- 1st of 31
- Rank in Izabal
- 1st of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.84
- Rank in Guatemala
- 1st of 31
- Rank in Izabal
- 1st of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Faizpur, India
- Roeselare, Belgium
- Bagudo, Nigeria
- San Jose, Philippines
- Goalanda, Bangladesh
- Al Beidha, Yemen
In new street additions, El Estor built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Faizpur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and San Jose fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, El Estor and San Jose both became progressively more disconnected, while Faizpur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. El Estor and Faizpur have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.