San José del Cabo 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 San José del Cabo plotted against Baja California Sur and México. The SNDi of new construction in San José del Cabo was at its lowest in 1991-2005, compared to Baja California Sur which was at its lowest in 1991-2005 and México which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, San José del Cabo's incremental SNDi rose from 3.0 to 4.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San José del Cabo ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Baja California Sur and 134th out of 182 in México as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Simi Valley, United States
• Al Jarrahi, Yemen
• Salmas, Iran
• Robe, Ethiopia
• Bagram, Afghanistan
• Dimitrovgrad, Russia

In new street additions, San José del Cabo built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Simi Valley built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Robe built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Simi Valley and Robe both became progressively more disconnected, while San José del Cabo became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. San José del Cabo and Simi Valley have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.