Jaigaon 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 Jaigaon plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jaigaon 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, Jaigaon's incremental SNDi rose from 4.69 to 6.26 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jaigaon ranked 64th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1379th 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?

• Bhopatpur, India
• Huaraz, Peru
• Abbasabad, Iran
• Tongrim, North Korea
• Chalco, United States
• Yanling, China

In new street additions, Jaigaon built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bhopatpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tongrim built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Jaigaon and Tongrim both became progressively more disconnected, while Bhopatpur fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Jaigaon had a more connected network than Bhopatpur in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.