Lawrenceville in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Lawrenceville in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Lawrenceville plotted against Georgia and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Lawrenceville rose steadily, compared to Georgia which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Lawrenceville's incremental SNDi rose from 7.92 to 8.1 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lawrenceville ranked 8th out of 8 cities in Georgia and 331st out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.1
- Rank in United States
- 328th of 333
- Rank in Georgia
- 7th of 8
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.96
- Rank in United States
- 331st of 333
- Rank in Georgia
- 8th of 8
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Lawrenceville and Marmaris both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Motikhavdi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Lawrenceville and Marmaris both became progressively more disconnected, while Motikhavdi fluctuated in connectivity. Lawrenceville and Marmaris have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.