Nguru in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nguru in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nguru plotted against Yobe and Nigeria. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Nguru's incremental SNDi rose from 0.9 to 1.29 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nguru ranked 1st out of 7 cities in Yobe and 15th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.29
- Rank in Nigeria
- 16th of 422
- Rank in Yobe
- 2nd of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.24
- Rank in Nigeria
- 15th of 422
- Rank in Yobe
- 1st of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Nguru fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Techiman built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Barpeta built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Techiman and Barpeta both became progressively more disconnected, while Nguru fluctuated in connectivity. Nguru and Techiman have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.