Community suitability of Northern Ireland, U K Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 78
91
best land · p90
95%
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 87
Climate, growing & hazards 88
Autonomy & access 83
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGovernance & corruptionSoil quality
Within Northern Ireland — 26 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Moyle
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 81
Armagh
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Dungannon
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Fermanagh
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Newry and Mourne
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (77)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 80
Ballymoney
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 79
Cookstown
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 79
Omagh
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 79
Coleraine
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Magherafelt
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Strabane
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Ballymena
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Down
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Larne
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Limavady
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
Banbridge
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Craigavon
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 73
Antrim
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Ards
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Londonderry
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 68
Carrickfergus
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Lisburn
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 65
Newtownabbey
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 60
Castlereagh
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 58
North Down
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Belfast
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
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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