Midland in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Midland in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Midland plotted against Texas and United States. While Texas and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Midland's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Midland's incremental SNDi fell from 2.37 to 2.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Midland ranked 3rd out of 42 cities in Texas and 5th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.3
- Rank in United States
- 9th of 333
- Rank in Texas
- 2nd of 42
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.62
- Rank in United States
- 5th of 333
- Rank in Texas
- 3rd of 42
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Mirpur, Azad Kashmir
- Taungup, Myanmar
- Jhargram, India
- KaMaqhekeza, South Africa
- Bhinga, India
- Dingnan, China
In new street additions, Midland built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Mirpur built increasingly disconnected streets over time and KaMaqhekeza fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Midland and Mirpur have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.