Community suitability of Saskatchewan, Canada
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 50
79
best land · p90
89%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 76
Governance, safety & tenure 81
Economy & cost 98
Society, freedom & health 93
Land & water 79
Climate, growing & hazards 67
Autonomy & access 4
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityFood & forage diversityGrowing conditions
Within Saskatchewan — 18 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Division No. 6
strongest Autonomy & access (99) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (70)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 83
Division No. 11
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 81
Division No. 15
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (71)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 79
Division No. 2
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (70)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Division No. 10
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (70)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Division No. 12
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Division No. 5
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 77
Division No. 7
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 77
Division No. 1
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Division No. 16
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Division No. 3
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Division No. 9
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Division No. 13
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Division No. 8
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Division No. 17
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Division No. 14
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 68
Division No. 4
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Division No. 18
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 41
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
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
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.
Other regions in Canada
Compare nearby options, ranked by overall suitability.
Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard 79 New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick 78 Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse 77 Alberta 59 Ontario 43 Quebec / Québec 41 British Columbia / Colombie-Britannique 41 Manitoba 41 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador 41 Yukon 39 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest 37 Nunavut