Newport News in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Newport News in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Newport News plotted against Virginia and United States. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Newport News's incremental SNDi fell from 5.66 to 4.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Newport News ranked 2nd out of 11 cities in Virginia and 218th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.65
- Rank in United States
- 226th of 333
- Rank in Virginia
- 6th of 11
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.63
- Rank in United States
- 218th of 333
- Rank in Virginia
- 2nd of 11
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Newport News built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Wuming built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Luoyuan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Newport News and Wuming have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.