Community suitability of Connecticut, United States Of America
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 73
89
best land · p90
98%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 78
Economy & cost 95
Society, freedom & health 88
Land & water 79
Climate, growing & hazards 96
Autonomy & access 50
Where it pushes back
AccessibilitySoil qualityLand cover & degradation
Within Connecticut — 8 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
New London
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (78)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 79
Moderately suitable 79
Moderately suitable 78
Middlesex
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (50)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Moderately suitable 71
New Haven
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 65
Hartford
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Fairfield
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
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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