Ho Chi Minh City in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ho Chi Minh City in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ho Chi Minh City plotted against Hồ Chí Minh and Vietnam. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Ho Chi Minh City's incremental SNDi rose from 5.27 to 5.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ho Chi Minh City ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Hồ Chí Minh and 85th out of 126 in Vietnam as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.45
- Rank in Vietnam
- 90th of 126
- Rank in Hồ Chí Minh
- 1st of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.87
- Rank in Vietnam
- 85th of 126
- Rank in Hồ Chí Minh
- 2nd of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bengaluru, India
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Los Angeles, United States
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Chennai, India
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In new street additions, Ho Chi Minh City and Bengaluru both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lagos fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Ho Chi Minh City and Lagos have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.