Hamirpur 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 Hamirpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Hamirpur followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Hamirpur's incremental SNDi fell from 6.22 to 4.15 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hamirpur ranked 252nd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1603rd 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?

• Kanauta, India
• Passo Fundo, Brazil
• Sunyani, Ghana
• Moro, Pakistan
• Larbaa, Algeria
• Częstochowa, Poland

In new street additions, Hamirpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kanauta built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Moro built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Hamirpur fluctuated in connectivity, while Kanauta became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Moro became progressively more disconnected.