Top 400 Regional Markets — North America
content(projects): restructure TOP400 NA/EU hubs — Country breakouts section, linkified breakdown table, retitled appendix; genericize named-firm benchmark in EU intro
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "Ranked list of the 400 highest-scoring North American suburban Regional Markets. Rank 1: Plano, TX (suburb of Dallas, score 25.5)." paired_with: markets/atlas-top-400-north-america.es.md last_edited: 2026-06-17 last_edited: 2026-07-16 editor: editorial --- @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas 28 km from the metropolitan core, leads the Nor The list identifies commercial markets in the suburban ring of major North American cities — the research gap between institutional metro-market analysis and genuinely rural areas. It is produced separately from lists of metro cores (covered extensively by institutional research) and standalone secondary cities (served by separate analysis). ## Country breakouts Two countries have enough entries to warrant their own dedicated ranking page — [[atlas-united-states|United States]] (369 markets) and [[atlas-canada|Canada]] (23 markets). Mexico's 8 markets stay in the Country Breakdown table below and the full ranked table; a dedicated page isn't warranted at that count. ## Definition and Scope A North American Regional Market qualifies for this list when it meets three criteria. First, the settlement must contain at least one co-location cluster — a geographically bounded grouping of major-format retail, hardware, warehouse-club, and civic anchors. Second, the settlement must be a named, legally incorporated place or equivalent administrative unit whose name differs from that of its nearest major metropolitan reference centre. Third, the centroid of the settlement's co-location clusters must lie between 15 and 80 kilometres from the centroid of the nearest major metropolitan reference point; markets closer than 15 kilometres are classified as metro-core areas and markets beyond 80 kilometres are classified as standalone secondary cities — both categories are excluded from this list. @@ -76,7 +80,7 @@ The twenty-five highest-ranked North American Regional Markets are listed below, | 24 | Maple Grove, MN | US | Minneapolis | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | 12.0 | | 25 | Danvers, MA | US | Boston | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | 12.0 | ## Full Rankings (26–400) ## Appendix: Full Ranked Table (26–400) ### Ranks 26–33 — scores 12.0 to 10.5 @@ -509,8 +513,8 @@ The twenty-five highest-ranked North American Regional Markets are listed below, | Country | Count | Notes | |---------|-------|-------| | United States | 369 | Suburbs of all major US metropolitan areas | | Canada | 23 | Suburbs of Toronto (8), Vancouver (4), Calgary (2), and others | | [[atlas-united-states\|United States]] | 369 | Suburbs of all major US metropolitan areas | | [[atlas-canada\|Canada]] | 23 | Suburbs of Toronto (8), Vancouver (4), Calgary (2), and others | | Mexico | 8 | Suburbs of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey | ## Data Sources and Methodology