Digha in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Digha in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Digha plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Digha rose steadily, compared to West Bengal which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Digha's incremental SNDi rose from 3.73 to 6.0 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Digha ranked 47th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1067th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.0
- Rank in India
- 1362nd of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 61st of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.98
- Rank in India
- 1067th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 47th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- San Miguel, El Salvador
- Rafiganj, India
- N'dalatando, Angola
- Chetumal, México
- Huazhou, China
- El Tigre, Venezuela
In new street additions, Digha and San Miguel both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Chetumal fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Digha and San Miguel have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.