Balod in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Balod in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Balod plotted against Chhattisgarh and India. While Chhattisgarh and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Balod's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Balod's incremental SNDi rose from 2.98 to 5.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Balod ranked 12th out of 29 cities in Chhattisgarh and 667th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.61
- Rank in India
- 1252nd of 1868
- Rank in Chhattisgarh
- 20th of 29
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.36
- Rank in India
- 667th of 1868
- Rank in Chhattisgarh
- 12th of 29
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Balod and Aira both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tirtol built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Aira and Tirtol both became progressively more disconnected, while Balod fluctuated in connectivity. Balod and Aira have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.