San Miguel de Cozumel in context: Street-network sprawl trends
San Miguel de Cozumel in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Miguel de Cozumel plotted against Quintana Roo and México. The SNDi of new construction in San Miguel de Cozumel rose steadily, compared to Quintana Roo which rose steadily and México which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, San Miguel de Cozumel's incremental SNDi rose from 1.76 to 2.39 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Miguel de Cozumel ranked 1st out of 4 cities in Quintana Roo and 10th out of 182 in México as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.39
- Rank in México
- 24th of 182
- Rank in Quintana Roo
- 1st of 4
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.56
- Rank in México
- 10th of 182
- Rank in Quintana Roo
- 1st of 4
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
San Miguel de Cozumel, Gudur, and Shkoder all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.