Cadereyta Jiménez 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 Cadereyta Jiménez plotted against Nuevo León and México. While Nuevo León and México both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Cadereyta Jiménez's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Cadereyta Jiménez's incremental SNDi rose from 2.38 to 2.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cadereyta Jiménez ranked 2nd out of 6 cities in Nuevo León and 48th 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?

• Nawada, India
• Matão, Brazil
• Fengzhen, China
• Buzuluk, Russia
• Yanjin, China
• Zhijiang, China

In new street additions, Cadereyta Jiménez and Buzuluk both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Nawada built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Cadereyta Jiménez had a more connected network than Buzuluk in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.