Jagraon in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jagraon plotted against Punjab and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jagraon rose steadily, compared to Punjab which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Jagraon's incremental SNDi rose from 3.54 to 3.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jagraon ranked 10th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 519th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Al Mafraq, Jordan
• Totonicapán, Guatemala
• Khorramshahr, Iran
• Makou, China
• Qixia, China
• Gobesa, Ethiopia

In new street additions, Jagraon built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Al Mafraq built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Makou built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Jagraon became progressively more disconnected, while Al Mafraq grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Makou became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Jagraon had a more sprawly network than Makou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.