Lakeland in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Lakeland in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Lakeland plotted against Florida and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Lakeland rose steadily, compared to Florida which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Lakeland's incremental SNDi rose from 4.42 to 5.18 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lakeland ranked 5th out of 27 cities in Florida and 199th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.18
- Rank in United States
- 269th of 333
- Rank in Florida
- 14th of 27
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.49
- Rank in United States
- 199th of 333
- Rank in Florida
- 5th 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, Lakeland and Sa Đéc both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Navojoa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Lakeland and Navojoa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.