Murgia Chak 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 Murgia Chak plotted against Jharkhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Murgia Chak followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Murgia Chak's incremental SNDi fell from 6.22 to 4.87 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Murgia Chak ranked 41st out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 1511th 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?

• District 8, Iran
• Chełm, Poland
• Kitchanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Suzak, Kyrgyzstan
• Sirdaryo, Uzbekistan
• Lakhdaria, Algeria

In new street additions, Murgia Chak fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while District 8 built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Suzak built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Murgia Chak fluctuated in connectivity, while District 8 grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Suzak became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Murgia Chak and District 8 have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.