Community suitability of Karnataka, India
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 65
87
best land · p90
86%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 53
Governance, safety & tenure 54
Society, freedom & health 75
Land & water 82
Climate, growing & hazards 74
Autonomy & access 83
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsGovernance & corruptionLegal entity & land framework
Within Karnataka — 27 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Chamrajnagar
strongest Autonomy & access (99) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 70
Chikmagalur
strongest Autonomy & access (92) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 69
Kodagu
strongest Autonomy & access (93) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 69
Mysore
strongest Land & water (89) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 67
Tumkur
strongest Land & water (87) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 67
Hassan
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 66
Kolar
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 66
Chitradurga
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 66
Bidar
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Bijapur
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Gulbarga
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Raichur
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Shimoga
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 65
Davanagere
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Bellary
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Mandya
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Uttar Kannand
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 64
Bagalkot
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Gadag
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Haveri
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Koppal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Belgaum
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Dharwad
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Bangalore Rural
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Bangalore Urban
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 51
excluded excl
excluded excl
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
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
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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