Community suitability of Tartu maakond, Estonia
Highly suitable confidence B · live score 84
87
best land · p90
96%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 77
Governance, safety & tenure 81
Economy & cost 92
Society, freedom & health 88
Land & water 84
Climate, growing & hazards 83
Autonomy & access 88
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGrowing conditionsLand cover & degradation
Within Tartu maakond — 22 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Alatskivi vald
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (77)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 85
Peipsiääre vald
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (77)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 85
Vara vald
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (77)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 85
Kallaste linn
strongest Economy & cost (92) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 84
Mäksa vald
strongest Autonomy & access (95) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 84
Rannu vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 84
Võnnu vald
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 84
Puhja vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 83
Rõngu vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 83
Konguta vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 82
Laeva vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 82
Luunja vald
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 81
Meeksi vald
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 81
Haaslava vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 80
Nõo vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 79
Kambja vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
Piirissaare vald
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 78
Tartu vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
Elva linn
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Tähtvere vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Ülenurme vald
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Tartu linn
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 42
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.
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