Fort Worth in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Fort Worth in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fort Worth plotted against Texas and United States. While Texas and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Fort Worth's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Fort Worth's incremental SNDi fell from 3.2 to 2.54 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fort Worth ranked 6th out of 42 cities in Texas and 18th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.54
- Rank in United States
- 19th of 333
- Rank in Texas
- 5th of 42
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.78
- Rank in United States
- 18th of 333
- Rank in Texas
- 6th of 42
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Teng, China
- Parghumti, India
- Beruniy, Uzbekistan
- Pundibari, India
- Tuxtepec, México
- Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
In new street additions, Fort Worth built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Teng built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Pundibari fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Fort Worth became progressively more disconnected, while Teng became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Pundibari fluctuated in connectivity. Fort Worth and Teng have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.