Liverpool in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Liverpool in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Liverpool plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Liverpool's incremental SNDi fell from 6.11 to 4.66 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Liverpool ranked 51st out of 124 cities in England and 58th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.66
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 99th of 143
- Rank in England
- 89th of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.46
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 58th of 143
- Rank in England
- 51st 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, Liverpool built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Fez fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Gyanpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Liverpool became progressively more disconnected, while Fez grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Gyanpur became progressively more connected.