Hodal in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Hodal in context

33.544.55<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
33.544.55<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HodalHaryana (Region)India (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hodal plotted against Haryana and India. The SNDi of new construction in Hodal peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Haryana which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Hodal's incremental SNDi fell from 4.82 to 4.5 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hodal ranked 34th out of 40 cities in Haryana and 1250th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
4.5
Rank in India
807th of 1868
Rank in Haryana
26th of 40

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
4.37
Rank in India
1250th of 1868
Rank in Haryana
34th of 40

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

What about similarly populated cities?

23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HodalHubBah

While Hub and Bah both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Hodal built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Hodal had a more connected network than Hub in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.