Tocoa in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Tocoa in context

12345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
12345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TocoaColon (Region)Honduras (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tocoa plotted against Colón and Honduras. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Tocoa's incremental SNDi rose from 1.38 to 2.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tocoa ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Colón and 2nd out of 16 in Honduras as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.03
Rank in Honduras
2nd of 16
Rank in Colón
1st of 1

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
1.49
Rank in Honduras
2nd of 16
Rank in Colón
1st of 1

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

What about similarly populated cities?

0369<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
0369<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TocoaTarutungAjibarang

While Tarutung and Ajibarang both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Tocoa built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.