Margate in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Margate in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Margate plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Margate's incremental SNDi fell from 3.95 to 3.0 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Margate ranked 6th out of 124 cities in England and 8th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.0
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 14th of 143
- Rank in England
- 11th of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.83
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 8th of 143
- Rank in England
- 6th of 124
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Margate and Abiriba both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Managua fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Margate and Abiriba have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.