Huntington Station 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 Huntington Station plotted against New York and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Huntington Station followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to New York which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Huntington Station's incremental SNDi rose from 3.3 to 6.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Huntington Station ranked 8th out of 12 cities in New York and 132nd 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?

• Sahabad, India
• Taozhuang, China
• Dayangshu, China
• Chefchaouen, Morocco
• Dongguang, China
• Miri, Malaysia

In new street additions, Huntington Station fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sahabad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Chefchaouen built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Huntington Station became progressively more disconnected, while Sahabad fluctuated in connectivity and Chefchaouen grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Huntington Station and Sahabad have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.