Fall River in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Fall River in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fall River plotted against Massachusetts and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Fall River rose steadily, compared to Massachusetts which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Fall River's incremental SNDi rose from 6.38 to 8.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fall River ranked 4th out of 10 cities in Massachusetts and 92nd out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.03
- Rank in United States
- 326th of 333
- Rank in Massachusetts
- 9th of 10
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.57
- Rank in United States
- 92nd of 333
- Rank in Massachusetts
- 4th of 10
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Fall River and Yima both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Reutlingen fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Fall River had a more sprawly network than Yima in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.