Kailahun in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kailahun in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kailahun plotted against Eastern and Sierra Leone. While Eastern and Sierra Leone both rose steadily, Kailahun's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kailahun's incremental SNDi rose from 5.54 to 8.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kailahun ranked 3rd out of 3 cities in Eastern and 11th out of 12 in Sierra Leone as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.56
- Rank in Sierra Leone
- 10th of 12
- Rank in Eastern
- 3rd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 7.15
- Rank in Sierra Leone
- 11th of 12
- Rank in Eastern
- 3rd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Gostivar, North Macedonia
- Akre, Iraq
- Capão da Canoa, Brazil
- Ipswich, Australia
- Pawapuri, India
- Rajura, India
In new street additions, Kailahun and Gostivar both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ipswich built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Kailahun had a more connected network than Gostivar in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.