Khair 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 Khair plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Khair's incremental SNDi rose from 1.08 to 2.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Khair ranked 19th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 70th 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?

• El Hawata, Sudan
• Tumed Right Banner, China
• Hamilton, United States
• Yitong, China
• Sanchahe, China
• Kashmore, Pakistan

In new street additions, Khair fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while El Hawata built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Yitong built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, El Hawata and Yitong both became progressively more disconnected, while Khair fluctuated in connectivity. Khair and El Hawata have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.