Bahraich 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 Bahraich plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bahraich rose steadily, compared to Uttar Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bahraich's incremental SNDi rose from 4.59 to 4.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bahraich ranked 175th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1172nd 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?

• Dazhou, China
• Morelia, México
• Panvel, India
• Jeonju, South Korea
• Anand, India
• Cancún, México

While Dazhou and Jeonju both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Bahraich built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Dazhou and Jeonju both fluctuated in connectivity, while Bahraich became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Bahraich had a more connected network than Dazhou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.