Daytona Beach in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Daytona Beach in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Daytona Beach plotted against Florida and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Daytona Beach followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Florida which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Daytona Beach's incremental SNDi rose from 4.2 to 4.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Daytona Beach ranked 9th out of 27 cities in Florida and 221st out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.58
- Rank in United States
- 218th of 333
- Rank in Florida
- 5th of 27
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.65
- Rank in United States
- 221st of 333
- Rank in Florida
- 9th of 27
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Daytona Beach fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Salempur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Wereta built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Daytona Beach and Wereta both became progressively more disconnected, while Salempur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Daytona Beach and Wereta have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.