Gumla in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gumla in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gumla plotted against Jharkhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gumla rose steadily, compared to Jharkhand which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gumla's incremental SNDi rose from 4.37 to 5.72 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gumla ranked 27th out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 1095th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.72
- Rank in India
- 1288th of 1868
- Rank in Jharkhand
- 34th of 46
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.04
- Rank in India
- 1095th of 1868
- Rank in Jharkhand
- 27th of 46
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Baubau, Indonesia
- Ambah, India
- Rijeka, Croatia
- Mekarsari, Indonesia
- Encarnacion, Paraguay
- Venjaramoodu, India
In new street additions, Gumla and Baubau both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Mekarsari built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Gumla had a more connected network than Baubau in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.