Turlock 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 Turlock plotted against California and United States. While California and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Turlock's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Turlock's incremental SNDi fell from 3.09 to 2.51 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Turlock ranked 4th out of 60 cities in California and 101st out of 333 in United States as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Mitrovica, Kosovo
• 向塘村, China
• Galway, Ireland
• Adikpo, Nigeria
• Ritterhude, Germany
• Pontinamallayyapalem, India

In new street additions, Turlock built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Mitrovica built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Adikpo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Looking at the full network, Mitrovica and Adikpo both became progressively more disconnected, while Turlock grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Turlock and Adikpo have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.