Coventry in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Coventry in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Coventry plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Coventry's incremental SNDi fell from 4.16 to 4.12 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Coventry ranked 15th out of 124 cities in England and 18th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.12
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 70th of 143
- Rank in England
- 64th of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.02
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 18th of 143
- Rank in England
- 15th of 124
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Memphis, United States
- Bamenda, Cameroon
- Buenaventura, Colombia
- Tangail, Bangladesh
- Kanchipuram, India
- Yixing, China
In new street additions, Coventry and Memphis both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Tangail built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Coventry had a more sprawly network than Tangail in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.