Ibadan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ibadan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ibadan plotted against Oyo and Nigeria. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Ibadan's incremental SNDi rose from 3.97 to 4.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ibadan ranked 15th out of 15 cities in Oyo and 322nd out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.75
- Rank in Nigeria
- 254th of 422
- Rank in Oyo
- 13th of 15
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.16
- Rank in Nigeria
- 322nd of 422
- Rank in Oyo
- 15th of 15
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Ibadan and Kunming both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Shijiazhuang built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.