Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa plotted against Copán and Honduras. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Santa Rosa's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 4.82 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Santa Rosa ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Copán and 11th out of 16 in Honduras as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Minden, Germany
• Huzhu, China
• Định Quán, Vietnam
• Chodavaram, India
• Fernandópolis, Brazil
• Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique

In new street additions, Santa Rosa built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Minden built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Chodavaram built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Santa Rosa and Minden both became progressively more disconnected, while Chodavaram became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Santa Rosa had a more connected network than Minden in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.