Baripada in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Baripada in context

234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
BaripadaOdisha (Region)India (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Baripada plotted against Odisha and India. The SNDi of new construction in Baripada rose steadily, compared to Odisha which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Baripada's incremental SNDi rose from 4.39 to 6.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Baripada ranked 20th out of 58 cities in Odisha and 678th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
6.58
Rank in India
1505th of 1868
Rank in Odisha
44th of 58

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
3.38
Rank in India
678th of 1868
Rank in Odisha
20th of 58

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
BaripadaMbararaKoppala

Baripada, Mbarara, and Koppala all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Baripada had a more connected network than Koppala in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.