Easton in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Easton in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Easton plotted against Pennsylvania and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Easton rose steadily, compared to Pennsylvania which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Easton's incremental SNDi rose from 3.79 to 4.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Easton ranked 11th out of 16 cities in Pennsylvania and 90th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.19
- Rank in United States
- 176th of 333
- Rank in Pennsylvania
- 8th of 16
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.56
- Rank in United States
- 90th of 333
- Rank in Pennsylvania
- 11th of 16
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Lewoleba, Indonesia
- Talang Gudang, Indonesia
- Sonatala, Bangladesh
- Ila Orangun, Nigeria
- Bocholt, Germany
- Farafangana, Madagascar
In new street additions, Easton and Ila Orangun both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lewoleba fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Easton had a more sprawly network than Ila Orangun in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.