San Carlos in context: Street-network sprawl trends
San Carlos in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Carlos plotted against Cojedes and Venezuela. The SNDi of new construction in San Carlos rose steadily, compared to Cojedes which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Venezuela which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, San Carlos's incremental SNDi rose from 3.94 to 4.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Carlos ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Cojedes and 30th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.73
- Rank in Venezuela
- 35th of 70
- Rank in Cojedes
- 2nd of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.37
- Rank in Venezuela
- 30th of 70
- Rank in Cojedes
- 1st of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, San Carlos and Ji'an County both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Blora fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. San Carlos and Ji'an County have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.