Torrance, United States
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@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 slug: us-ca-torrance title: "Torrance, California — Regional Market" language: en language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC category: markets type: reference content_type: topic quality: stub status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "Rank 112 North American Regional Market — suburb of Los Angeles; composite score 6.0." paired_with: markets/us-ca-torrance.es.md last_edited: 2026-07-10 editor: editorial --- Torrance, a mixed industrial-residential suburb in southwestern Los Angeles County, ranks 112th among the 400 North American Regional Markets with a composite score of 6.0. The city combines a large regional mall with a manufacturing and aerospace employment base uncommon among the index's single-cluster markets. ## Overview According to Wikipedia (accessed 2026-07-10), Torrance recorded a population of 147,067 at the 2020 census (an estimated 139,576 by 2024) across 20.516 square miles of land, approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Leading employers include Torrance Memorial Health System (4,070 employees), the local school district (2,675), and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center (2,429); American Honda Motor Company maintains significant operations with 1,496 employees, alongside Robinson Helicopter Company and Honeywell Aerospace. The city hosts one of the ten largest malls in the United States, the 2.5-million-square-foot Del Amo Fashion Center, and oil refining remains economically important through a PBF Energy facility. Torrance has the second-largest concentration of people of Japanese ancestry of any U.S. city after Honolulu, alongside a significant Korean American population; the 2020 census recorded the population as 35.30 percent white, 35.26 percent Asian, and 19.09 percent Hispanic or Latino. ## Regional Market Standing | Field | Value | |---|---| | Rank | 112 of 400 (North America) | | Composite score | 6.0 | | Tier 1 clusters | 1 | | Tier 2 clusters | 0 | | Tier 3 clusters | 0 | | Suburb of | Los Angeles | Cluster-level detail — the specific retail and civic anchors composing Torrance's single Tier 1 cluster — is pending the underlying GIS dataset and is not included in this stub. See [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] for the full ranked list and [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] for how the composite score is derived. ## See Also - [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] - [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] - [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] ## References - [Torrance, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California) — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-07-10 *Wikipedia content reproduced under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).*