Diamond Harbour in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Diamond Harbour in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Diamond Harbour plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Diamond Harbour's incremental SNDi rose from 4.01 to 5.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Diamond Harbour ranked 52nd out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1186th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.25
- Rank in India
- 1133rd of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 34th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.21
- Rank in India
- 1186th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 52nd of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Diamond Harbour and Tebessa both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Chingola built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Chingola and Tebessa both became progressively more disconnected, while Diamond Harbour fluctuated in connectivity.