Raiganj in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Raiganj in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Raiganj plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Raiganj's incremental SNDi rose from 3.77 to 5.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Raiganj ranked 48th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1090th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.79
- Rank in India
- 1310th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 55th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.03
- Rank in India
- 1090th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 48th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Manizales, Colombia
- Belfast, United Kingdom
- Nice, France
- Tumakuru, India
- Zhanjiang, China
- Wiesbaden, Germany
In new street additions, Raiganj and Manizales both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tumakuru built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Manizales and Tumakuru both became progressively more disconnected, while Raiganj fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Raiganj had a more connected network than Manizales in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.