Hojai in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hojai plotted against Assam and India. The SNDi of new construction in Hojai rose steadily, compared to Assam which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Hojai's incremental SNDi rose from 5.11 to 5.5 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hojai ranked 25th out of 67 cities in Assam and 859th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Qijiang, China
• Kousseri, Cameroon
• Tirupattur, India
• Jieshan, China
• Paarl, South Africa
• Charlotte, United States

While Qijiang and Jieshan both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Hojai built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Hojai became progressively more disconnected, while Qijiang fluctuated in connectivity and Jieshan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Hojai had a more sprawly network than Qijiang in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.