Crewe in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Crewe in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Crewe plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Crewe's incremental SNDi fell from 5.4 to 4.63 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Crewe ranked 94th out of 124 cities in England and 105th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.63
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 97th of 143
- Rank in England
- 87th of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.92
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 105th of 143
- Rank in England
- 94th of 124
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Pardubice, Czechia
- Smila, Ukraine
- Vilanculos, Mozambique
- Belorechensk, Russia
- Gongping, China
- Fengqiao, China
In new street additions, Crewe and Belorechensk both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Pardubice built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.