Les Cayes in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Les Cayes in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Les Cayes plotted against Sud and Haiti. While Sud and Haiti both rose steadily, Les Cayes's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Les Cayes's incremental SNDi rose from 6.26 to 7.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Les Cayes ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Sud and 20th out of 21 in Haiti as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.03
- Rank in Haiti
- 20th of 21
- Rank in Sud
- 1st of 1
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.58
- Rank in Haiti
- 20th of 21
- Rank in Sud
- 1st of 1
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Les Cayes and Luncang both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Magadan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Les Cayes and Luncang both became progressively more disconnected, while Magadan fluctuated in connectivity. Les Cayes and Magadan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.