Waterbury in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Waterbury in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Waterbury plotted against Connecticut and United States. While Connecticut and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Waterbury's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Waterbury's incremental SNDi fell from 5.38 to 3.41 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Waterbury ranked 5th out of 7 cities in Connecticut and 162nd out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.41
- Rank in United States
- 73rd of 333
- Rank in Connecticut
- 5th of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.16
- Rank in United States
- 162nd of 333
- Rank in Connecticut
- 5th of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Waterbury built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Palladam built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Nobeoka fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Waterbury had a more sprawly network than Palladam in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.