Khandwa in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Khandwa in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Khandwa plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Khandwa rose steadily, compared to Madhya Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Khandwa's incremental SNDi rose from 3.95 to 5.47 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Khandwa ranked 51st out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 955th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.47
- Rank in India
- 1209th of 1868
- Rank in Madhya Pradesh
- 65th of 98
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.83
- Rank in India
- 955th of 1868
- Rank in Madhya Pradesh
- 51st of 98
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Thoothukudi, India
- Viluppuram, India
- Kralpora, Jammu and Kashmir
- Chuzhou, China
- Bournemouth, United Kingdom
- Mission Viejo, United States
Khandwa, Thoothukudi, and Chuzhou all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Khandwa and Thoothukudi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.