Ballia in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ballia in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ballia plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Ballia 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, Ballia's incremental SNDi rose from 5.2 to 7.55 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ballia ranked 181st out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1208th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.55
- Rank in India
- 1628th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 257th of 291
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.27
- Rank in India
- 1208th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 181st of 291
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Himeji, Japan
- Damanhur, Egypt
- Kagoshima, Japan
- Pingxiang, China
- Fatehpur, India
- Oaxaca de Juárez, México
While Himeji and Pingxiang both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Ballia built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Ballia and Himeji both became progressively more disconnected, while Pingxiang fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Ballia had a more connected network than Pingxiang in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.