Sirsa in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sirsa in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sirsa plotted against Haryana and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Sirsa's incremental SNDi rose from 3.08 to 3.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sirsa ranked 12th out of 40 cities in Haryana and 431st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.17
- Rank in India
- 299th of 1868
- Rank in Haryana
- 9th of 40
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.91
- Rank in India
- 431st of 1868
- Rank in Haryana
- 12th of 40
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Yangkou, China
- Quy Nhơn, Vietnam
- Menongue, Angola
- Greater Noida, India
- Basel, Switzerland
- Chhindwara, India
In new street additions, Sirsa and Yangkou both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Greater Noida built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Sirsa became progressively more disconnected, while Yangkou fluctuated in connectivity and Greater Noida became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Sirsa and Yangkou have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.