Crawley in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Crawley in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Crawley plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Crawley's incremental SNDi fell from 5.09 to 4.27 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Crawley ranked 87th out of 124 cities in England and 98th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.27
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 79th of 143
- Rank in England
- 71st of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.84
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 98th of 143
- Rank in England
- 87th of 124
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Crawley and As Suwayda both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Wonogiri fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.