Nayagarh in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nayagarh in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nayagarh plotted against Odisha and India. While Odisha and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Nayagarh's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Nayagarh's incremental SNDi rose from 3.52 to 6.38 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nayagarh ranked 42nd out of 58 cities in Odisha and 1296th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.38
- Rank in India
- 1461st of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 40th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.45
- Rank in India
- 1296th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 42nd of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
While Shoranur and Ludian both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Nayagarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Nayagarh fluctuated in connectivity, while Shoranur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Ludian fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Nayagarh had a more connected network than Ludian in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.