Amaseri in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Amaseri in context

2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AmaseriEbonyi (Region)Nigeria (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Amaseri plotted against Ebonyi and Nigeria. While Ebonyi and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Amaseri's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Amaseri's incremental SNDi rose from 2.43 to 3.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Amaseri ranked 2nd out of 9 cities in Ebonyi and 183rd out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
3.65
Rank in Nigeria
159th of 422
Rank in Ebonyi
2nd of 9

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.99
Rank in Nigeria
183rd of 422
Rank in Ebonyi
2nd of 9

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

What about similarly populated cities?

2468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AmaseriSohmaKempville

In new street additions, Amaseri fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sohma fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Kempville built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Amaseri fluctuated in connectivity, while Sohma fluctuated in connectivity and Kempville became progressively more disconnected.