Raigarh 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 Raigarh plotted against Chhattisgarh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Raigarh rose steadily, compared to Chhattisgarh which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Raigarh's incremental SNDi rose from 4.98 to 5.28 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Raigarh ranked 25th out of 29 cities in Chhattisgarh and 1453rd 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?

• Zhuanghe, China
• Shucheng, China
• Raniyan, India
• Balia, India
• Ekpoma, Nigeria
• Lanckhul, Jammu and Kashmir

In new street additions, Raigarh and Balia both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Zhuanghe built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Raigarh and Balia both became progressively more disconnected, while Zhuanghe grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Raigarh and Balia have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.