Kidderminster 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 Kidderminster plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Kidderminster's incremental SNDi fell from 5.67 to 4.21 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kidderminster ranked 118th out of 124 cities in England and 134th 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?

• Bussum, Netherlands
• Mizan Teferi, Ethiopia
• Wundwin, Myanmar
• Sunbat, Egypt
• Drachevo, North Macedonia
• Changxing, China

In new street additions, Kidderminster built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Bussum fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Sunbat built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Kidderminster grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Bussum became progressively more disconnected and Sunbat became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Kidderminster and Sunbat have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.