Haldibari in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Haldibari in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Haldibari plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Haldibari's incremental SNDi rose from 2.98 to 3.88 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Haldibari ranked 12th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 485th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.88
- Rank in India
- 549th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 11th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.03
- Rank in India
- 485th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 12th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Nuapatna, India
- Ishara, Nigeria
- Rajgara, India
- Heyun, China
- Ariwara, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Wijigra, Ethiopia
In new street additions, Haldibari fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Nuapatna fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Heyun built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Haldibari became progressively more disconnected, while Nuapatna fluctuated in connectivity and Heyun grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.