Gerakas Regional Market
Gerakas, an eastern suburb of Athens in the East Attica regional unit, holds European Regional Market standing under the co-location screening framework's composition gate. The framework's nearest major metropolitan reference point for the market is Athens, 12.3 kilometres away — the shortest such distance among Greece's seven current entries. Gerakas carries one Regional-tier co-location cluster.
Overview
According to Wikipedia (accessed 2026-08-25), Gerakas recorded 33,856 residents at the 2021 census across roughly 6.6 square kilometres, and has formed part of the Pallini municipality since a 2011 administrative merger. The area shifted rapidly from farmland to dense suburban housing after infrastructure built for the 2004 Athens Olympics, and is recorded in antiquity as the birthplace of the philosopher Epicurus.
Regional Market Standing
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan reference point | Athens |
| Distance | 12.3 km |
| Co-location clusters | 1 Regional-tier |
| Catchment population | 3,547,734 |
| Catchment method | Strongest member cluster (single-cluster fallback) |
Gerakas has one Regional-tier co-location cluster. The catchment population figure reflects the scale of the broader Athens metropolitan catchment underlying that cluster, not a population unique to Gerakas itself — a consequence of the framework's disclosed single-cluster fallback method, not an error. Cluster-level detail — the specific retail and civic anchors composing the cluster — is pending the underlying GIS dataset and is not included in this stub. See Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe for the full Top 400 set and Co-location Methodology for how markets qualify.
See Also
- Greece Regional Market Index
- Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe
- Regional Markets Intelligence System
- Co-location Methodology
References
- Gerakas, Greece — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-08-25
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