Olathe in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Olathe in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Olathe plotted against Kansas and United States. While Kansas and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Olathe's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Olathe's incremental SNDi fell from 4.33 to 3.82 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Olathe ranked 3rd out of 3 cities in Kansas and 241st out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.82
- Rank in United States
- 120th of 333
- Rank in Kansas
- 2nd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.87
- Rank in United States
- 241st of 333
- Rank in Kansas
- 3rd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Olathe built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Xinxing fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Ganj Dundwara fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Olathe grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Xinxing became progressively more disconnected and Ganj Dundwara became progressively more disconnected. Olathe and Ganj Dundwara have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.