Community suitability of England, U K Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 72
93
best land · p90
99%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 79
Governance, safety & tenure 77
Economy & cost 94
Society, freedom & health 92
Land & water 88
Climate, growing & hazards 90
Autonomy & access 50
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityGovernance & corruptionLegal entity & land framework
Within England — 46 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Cornwall
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (97) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 81
Northumberland
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 80
Cumbria
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 79
Devonshire
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (72)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
Isle of Wight
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 77
Norfolkshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
North Yorkshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Dorsetshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Lincolnshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Somersetshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Durham
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Wiltshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Suffolk
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 73
Salop
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 72
Gloucestershire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Hereford and Wor
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Humberside
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Cambridgeshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 70
Oxfordshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 70
East Sussex
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Hampshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Leicestershire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Northamptonshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
West Sussex
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Kent
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 68
Nottinghamshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 68
Derbyshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Essex
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Lancashire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Warwickshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Bedfordshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Berkshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Buckinghamshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Staffordshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Cheshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 65
Surrey
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Avon
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Hertfordshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
South Yorkshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Cleveland
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
West Yorkshire
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 60
Greater Manchest
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Merseyside
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Tyne and Wear
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Greater London
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 40
West Midlands
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 40
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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