Rugby 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 Rugby plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Rugby's incremental SNDi fell from 4.41 to 3.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rugby ranked 66th out of 124 cities in England and 74th 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?

• Zihuatanejo, México
• Luonan, China
• Nasirnagar, Bangladesh
• Savona, Italy
• Neemrana, India
• Encinitas, United States

In new street additions, Rugby built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Zihuatanejo built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Savona fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Rugby and Savona both became progressively more disconnected, while Zihuatanejo became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Rugby and Zihuatanejo have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.