Community suitability of Tasmania, Australia
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 69
93
best land · p90
94%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 82
Governance, safety & tenure 82
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 76
Climate, growing & hazards 97
Autonomy & access 28
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityWater availability & qualitySoil quality
Within Tasmania — 29 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Sorell (M)
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (98) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (82)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 88
Southern Midlands (M)
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (97) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (82)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 86
Kingborough (M)
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (98) ·
weakest Land & water (79)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 85
Tasman (M)
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (98) ·
weakest Land & water (78)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 85
Glamorgan/Spring Bay (M)
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (98) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (68)
pushes back: Accessibility
Highly suitable 81
Northern Midlands (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 80
Latrobe (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 79
Launceston (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 79
West Tamar (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 79
Break O'Day (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
Devonport (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
George Town (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Brighton (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Burnie (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Dorset (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Meander Valley (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Central Coast (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Central Highlands (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Kentish (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Clarence (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 73
Glenorchy (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 73
Derwent Valley (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Circular Head (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Huon Valley (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Waratah/Wynyard (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Hobart (C)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Flinders (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
King Island (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 61
West Coast (M)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 54
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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