Balugaon in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Balugaon in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Balugaon plotted against Odisha and India. While Odisha and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Balugaon's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Balugaon's incremental SNDi rose from 5.4 to 6.94 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Balugaon ranked 52nd out of 58 cities in Odisha and 1654th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.94
- Rank in India
- 1559th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 47th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.76
- Rank in India
- 1654th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 52nd of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Budjala, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Qurghontepa, Uzbekistan
- Séguéla, Côte d'Ivoire
- Ain Fakroun, Algeria
- Libertador General San Martín, Argentina
- Sedrata, Algeria
Balugaon, Budjala, and Ain Fakroun all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. For the full network, Balugaon and Budjala both fluctuated in connectivity, while Ain Fakroun became progressively more disconnected.