Ogwashi-Uku in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ogwashi-Uku in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ogwashi-Uku plotted against Delta and Nigeria. The SNDi of new construction in Ogwashi-Uku rose steadily, compared to Delta which rose steadily and Nigeria which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Ogwashi-Uku's incremental SNDi rose from 5.07 to 5.76 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ogwashi-Uku ranked 16th out of 20 cities in Delta and 358th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.76
- Rank in Nigeria
- 334th of 422
- Rank in Delta
- 16th of 20
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.69
- Rank in Nigeria
- 358th of 422
- Rank in Delta
- 16th of 20
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Ogwashi-Uku built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Sanjo fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Pantanaw built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.