Regional MarketsIndex
Regional Markets covers where we look. This category holds the covered market set behind site selection — the Top 400 set, the tier and co-location indices behind them, and a profile page for every market that has one today.
Start here: Regional Markets Intelligence System
Where to start
Eighty-two pages sit in this category, most of them individual market profiles. These five orient the whole set: what a Regional Market is, how markets are classified, and the two continental qualifying sets. The country pages below are the way into the profiles themselves.
- Regional Markets Intelligence System — The reference article for the co-location analysis system behind the covered market set.
- Regional Market definition — What qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market, and why coverage is not market strength.
- Co-location tier system — The four-tier classification assigned to every cluster, and how it applies across both continents.
- The Top 400 — North America — 400 markets published from a 1,121-market qualifying pool across three countries.
- The Top 400 — Europe — 400 markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries.
Coverage Methodology
The three reference articles behind the covered market set: the co-location analysis system itself, what qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market on the map, and the four-tier classification applied across North American and European markets.
- Regional Markets intelligence system — Reference article for the co-location analysis system that identifies suburban retail markets in North America and Europe.
- Regional market definition — Spatial containers on the location intelligence map — how settlements with co-location presence differ from Regional Markets, and why coverage is not market strength.
- Co-location tier system — The four-tier classification — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — assigned to every co-location cluster on the platform, the predicate gates that determine it, and how the system applies across North American and European markets.
The Top 400 Markets
The two qualifying sets: four hundred markets per continent that meet the co-location anchor-composition gates. Europe draws its four hundred from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries; North America draws its four hundred from a pool of 1,121 across three. No rank or score is published for any market in either set. Both pages were rebuilt on 2026-09-06 against the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Top 400 Regional Markets — North America — The 400 North American Regional Markets published from a 1,121-market qualifying pool — 298 United States, 56 Canadian, 46 Mexican.
- Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe — The 400 European Regional Markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries; country tables carry the market-level detail.
Co-Location Indices by Country
Two country-level co-location indices remain as standalone pages — Mexico and the Nordics. The other five were merged into their country pages on 2026-09-05 and are read there: United States, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Poland, each under a Co-location anchor network section. Every index classifies named-anchor convergence node by node within its own country and supplies the underlying cluster data the continental sets are built from.
Both now have country pages alongside them — Mexico, and for the Nordics Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. Whether they are folded in the way the other five were remains open.
- Co-location index: Mexico — Index of commercial convergence nodes in Mexico, identifying sites where Walmart Supercentre anchors cluster with Home Depot, Costco, and civic infrastructure.
- Co-location index: Nordics — Index of commercial convergence sites across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, anchored by IKEA with Nordic secondary operators.
Top 400 Markets by Country
Eighteen country-level Regional Market indices filter the continental Top 400 tables down to a single country's entries: Canada, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Croatia, and Norway.
The confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset covers eighteen countries, and every one has a country page. Each page's table is built from that dataset, so the counts here, on the country pages, and on the two continental tables reconcile.
- Canada — Regional Market index — Index of Canada's 56 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- United States — Regional Market index — Index of the 298 United States Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Mexico — Regional Market index — Index of Mexico's 46 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- United Kingdom — Regional Market index — Index of the United Kingdom's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Spain — Regional Market index — Index of Spain's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Italy — Regional Market index — Index of Italy's 62 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Poland — Regional Market index — Index of Poland's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Sweden — Regional Market index — Index of Sweden's 32 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Czechia — Regional Market index — Index of Czechia's 27 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Finland — Regional Market index — Index of Finland's 19 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Hungary — Regional Market index — Index of Hungary's 19 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Slovakia — Regional Market index — Index of Slovakia's 16 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Romania — Regional Market index — Index of Romania's 13 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Bulgaria — Regional Market index — Index of Bulgaria's 11 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Denmark — Regional Market index — Index of Denmark's 11 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Greece — Regional Market index — Index of Greece's seven Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Croatia — Regional Market index — Index of Croatia's nine Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Norway — Regional Market index — Index of Norway's nine Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
Market Profiles
The country index pages are the way into the profiles. Each atlas- page lists its own
country's markets in a single table, with the metropolitan reference point and cluster
composition for every entry: Canada, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Croatia, and Norway. This page no longer enumerates every profile; the country tables do,
and they carry the market-level detail an enumeration here cannot. Behind those tables the
profiles are grouped into five regional sets — North America, the United Kingdom, the
Nordics, the Adriatic and Greece, and Iberia and Central Europe — so the collection can be
read a region at a time as coverage grows.
57 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia.
Each profile page states its own position: a published entry in the Top 400 set, a metropolitan reference point that other entries are measured against, or a market that did not qualify on anchor composition. The country tables are the authoritative view of what is published.
Two hand-maintained lists previously drew that published/reference-only distinction on this page. They covered 32 of the 57 profiles, were never rebuilt after the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset was adopted — five entries listed as verified had left that dataset, six listed as reference-only had entered it, and the Greek, Croatian, and Norwegian profiles appeared in neither — and were removed on 2026-09-06 rather than left standing as a stale second view of the country tables. The distinction itself is real, and is carried by the country tables and by each profile page.
Spartanburg, SC is a known inconsistency in the source data: it appears in the North American Top 400 table while the profile page describes Spartanburg as a metropolitan reference point rather than a ranked entry. The question sits with the dataset, not this page.
Archived: the seven German city profiles, Chambéry (France), and Breda (Netherlands), together with their three country index pages. Germany, France, and the Netherlands are outside the current Regional Markets methodology, so these markets are no longer covered. Their slugs redirect here.