Huayin in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Huayin in context

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HuayinShaanxi (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Huayin plotted against Shaanxi and China. While Shaanxi and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Huayin's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Huayin's incremental SNDi rose from 2.3 to 2.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Huayin ranked 14th out of 62 cities in Shaanxi and 461st out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.92
Rank in China
825th of 1843
Rank in Shaanxi
29th of 62

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.34
Rank in China
461st of 1843
Rank in Shaanxi
14th of 62

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

246<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
246<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HuayinAmgaonAnliu

In new street additions, Huayin and Amgaon both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Anliu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Huayin became progressively more disconnected, while Amgaon fluctuated in connectivity and Anliu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Huayin had a more connected network than Amgaon in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.