Milwaukee in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Milwaukee in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Milwaukee plotted against Wisconsin and United States. The SNDi of new construction in Milwaukee followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Wisconsin which rose steadily and United States which peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Milwaukee's incremental SNDi rose from 2.87 to 3.64 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Milwaukee ranked 1st out of 7 cities in Wisconsin and 4th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.64
- Rank in United States
- 99th of 333
- Rank in Wisconsin
- 4th of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.59
- Rank in United States
- 4th of 333
- Rank in Wisconsin
- 1st of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Kutubdia, Bangladesh
- Cuernavaca, México
- Sitamarhi, India
- Konya, Turkey
- Astana, Kazakhstan
- Jinhua, China
In new street additions, Milwaukee fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kutubdia fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Konya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Milwaukee became progressively more disconnected, while Kutubdia became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Konya grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.