Kneel down and look around your home through the eyes of a child. Jawaharlal Nehru once said that the way to nurture the children of our country was to show them love. You can show your kid how you love them in a hundred ways, but we’re interested in how you can show them you care by buying a home where they’ll have all the infrastructure they need to grow and thrive: schools, healthcare and parks. Keeping this in mind, Housing’s Data Science Lab created a heat map to visualise the child friendliness of an area. Now when you look for a home, you can always make sure that its in a neighbourhood that’s excellent for children.
The index measures neighbourhoods on three different criteria: the number of schools, hospitals and parks in an area, as well as the proximity of these facilities to the areas. The schools in an area are given greater weightage in creating the final composite score. The areas are then ranked and graded according to their child friendliness and are charted on a map. The most child friendly areas appear in red, the least child-friendly areas appear green. Use the key provided below to interpret the colour coding of the different areas on the map.
The Child friendliness Index is now available for 3 major cities Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, and will be looking forward to expand this feature in all cities listed in Housing’s agenda.
Mumbai: As far as child-friendliness goes, Mumbai scores well. The heart of the city is densely packed with schools and health care facilities (if not parks) and the suburbs make up where the city centre lacks, with plenty of parks for kids to play in. The green bits on the map indicate areas which are mostly industrial and commercial in nature.
Delhi: Delhi scores well on child-friendliness as well. Its child-friendly areas are scattered liberally throughout the various areas of the city, with a tendency to concentrate towards the suburbs just a little away from the city centre. Planning has a lot to do with the child friendliness of all the different areas in Delhi. Many of the suburbs that score highly on the child-friendly area index in Delhi have all been developed as planned areas and consequently have all been built up with spaces allotted specifically to schools and parks in the area.
Bangalore: India’s Garden City, Bangalore is known, with its numerous parks and excellent schools scores well on the child friendly area index. It’s south ranging to south-west Bangalore that tops our child-friendly area index, ranking among the more affluent areas of the city.
About Housing.com:
India’s first map-based real estate search portal, Housing.com is innovating real estate in India. With an approach rooted in technology and accurate data, Housing has taken a route less travelled in Indian real estate industry. Mumbai-based start-up Housing.com has transformed the way people rent flats. In an age where buying grocery and electronic items are just a few clicks away, it's bewildering that for renting a flat, you still have to go door-to-door inspecting flats with your broker. By changing the fundamental process of home search, housing has taken the inventive lead of bringing houses to the users instead.
The index measures neighbourhoods on three different criteria: the number of schools, hospitals and parks in an area, as well as the proximity of these facilities to the areas. The schools in an area are given greater weightage in creating the final composite score. The areas are then ranked and graded according to their child friendliness and are charted on a map. The most child friendly areas appear in red, the least child-friendly areas appear green. Use the key provided below to interpret the colour coding of the different areas on the map.
The Child friendliness Index is now available for 3 major cities Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, and will be looking forward to expand this feature in all cities listed in Housing’s agenda.
Mumbai: As far as child-friendliness goes, Mumbai scores well. The heart of the city is densely packed with schools and health care facilities (if not parks) and the suburbs make up where the city centre lacks, with plenty of parks for kids to play in. The green bits on the map indicate areas which are mostly industrial and commercial in nature.
Delhi: Delhi scores well on child-friendliness as well. Its child-friendly areas are scattered liberally throughout the various areas of the city, with a tendency to concentrate towards the suburbs just a little away from the city centre. Planning has a lot to do with the child friendliness of all the different areas in Delhi. Many of the suburbs that score highly on the child-friendly area index in Delhi have all been developed as planned areas and consequently have all been built up with spaces allotted specifically to schools and parks in the area.
Bangalore: India’s Garden City, Bangalore is known, with its numerous parks and excellent schools scores well on the child friendly area index. It’s south ranging to south-west Bangalore that tops our child-friendly area index, ranking among the more affluent areas of the city.
About Housing.com:
India’s first map-based real estate search portal, Housing.com is innovating real estate in India. With an approach rooted in technology and accurate data, Housing has taken a route less travelled in Indian real estate industry. Mumbai-based start-up Housing.com has transformed the way people rent flats. In an age where buying grocery and electronic items are just a few clicks away, it's bewildering that for renting a flat, you still have to go door-to-door inspecting flats with your broker. By changing the fundamental process of home search, housing has taken the inventive lead of bringing houses to the users instead.
