Jajpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Jajpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jajpur plotted against Odisha and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jajpur rose steadily, compared to Odisha which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Jajpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.1 to 5.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jajpur ranked 24th out of 58 cities in Odisha and 719th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.19
- Rank in India
- 1112th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 28th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.43
- Rank in India
- 719th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 24th of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Podgorica, Montenegro
- Gloucester, United Kingdom
- Ghinda, Eritrea
- Yongchun, China
- Léogâne, Haiti
- Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Jajpur, Podgorica, and Yongchun all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Jajpur and Podgorica have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.