Bankura in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bankura in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bankura plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Bankura's incremental SNDi rose from 3.74 to 4.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bankura ranked 32nd out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 933rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.25
- Rank in India
- 690th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 15th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.79
- Rank in India
- 933rd of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 32nd of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Pemalang, Indonesia
- Bhadrak, India
- Simri Bakhtiarpur, India
- Lufeng, China
- Cap-Haitien, Haiti
- McAllen, United States
In new street additions, Bankura and Pemalang both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Lufeng built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Bankura and Pemalang both became progressively more disconnected, while Lufeng became progressively more connected. Notably, Bankura had a more connected network than Lufeng in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.