San Jose in context: Street-network sprawl trends

San Jose in context

34567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
34567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
San JoseOccidental Mindoro (Region)Philippines (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Jose plotted against Occidental Mindoro and Philippines. While Occidental Mindoro and Philippines both rose steadily, San Jose's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, San Jose's incremental SNDi rose from 4.17 to 6.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Jose ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Occidental Mindoro as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
6.35
Rank in Occidental Mindoro
1st of 1

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
3.85
Rank in Occidental Mindoro
1st of 1

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

What about similarly populated cities?

3456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
3456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
San JoseNolaYexie

In new street additions, San Jose built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Nola fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Yexie fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, San Jose became progressively more disconnected, while Nola became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Yexie fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, San Jose had a more connected network than Nola in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.