Burton-on-Trent 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 Burton-on-Trent plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Burton-on-Trent's incremental SNDi fell from 5.32 to 5.21 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Burton-on-Trent ranked 106th out of 124 cities in England and 120th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Nicoadala, Mozambique
• Waimaw, Myanmar
• Lawrence, United States
• Usolye-Sibirskoye, Russia
• Bairin Right Banner, China
• Masi Manimba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

In new street additions, Burton-on-Trent and Usolye-Sibirskoye both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Nicoadala built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Burton-on-Trent and Usolye-Sibirskoye both became progressively more disconnected, while Nicoadala became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Burton-on-Trent had a more connected network than Nicoadala in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.