Ajagba in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ajagba in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ajagba plotted against Ondo and Nigeria. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Ajagba's incremental SNDi rose from 1.5 to 2.81 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ajagba ranked 2nd out of 17 cities in Ondo and 132nd out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.81
- Rank in Nigeria
- 99th of 422
- Rank in Ondo
- 1st of 17
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.54
- Rank in Nigeria
- 132nd of 422
- Rank in Ondo
- 2nd of 17
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Yangxian, China
- Jardim Aureny III, Brazil
- Sironj, India
- Lichuan, China
- Xixiang, China
- Yabelo, Ethiopia
In new street additions, Ajagba and Yangxian both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Lichuan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Ajagba fluctuated in connectivity, while Yangxian became progressively more disconnected and Lichuan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Ajagba and Yangxian have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.