Lake Ronkonkoma in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Lake Ronkonkoma in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Lake Ronkonkoma plotted against New York and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Lake Ronkonkoma rose steadily, compared to New York which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Lake Ronkonkoma's incremental SNDi rose from 4.29 to 5.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lake Ronkonkoma ranked 10th out of 12 cities in New York and 208th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.74
- Rank in United States
- 292nd of 333
- Rank in New York
- 11th of 12
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.57
- Rank in United States
- 208th of 333
- Rank in New York
- 10th of 12
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Massinga, Mozambique
- Longxian, China
- Ikot Aba, Nigeria
- Xiaoguan, China
- Toboali, Indonesia
- Kaiyang, China
In new street additions, Lake Ronkonkoma and Massinga both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Xiaoguan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Lake Ronkonkoma and Massinga both became progressively more disconnected, while Xiaoguan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Lake Ronkonkoma and Xiaoguan have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.