Markets
The Markets covers the places, ranked. This category holds the screening universe behind site selection: the [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] and the Top 400 — Europe, two ranked lists of the highest-scoring suburban commuter-belt markets on each continent, four hundred each, scored by [[about-regional-markets-system|a composite of retail co-location tier and civic-anchor presence]]. Country-level co-location indices and tier indices sit alongside the two lists and supply the underlying cluster data the ranking is built from.
41 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia — corrected 2026-07-16 from a stale count of 39. 20 of these are verified entries in the Top 400 ranked lists and are wikilinked directly from the ranked tables. Three of the twenty (Plano, Spartanburg/Greenville, and Cheshire West and Chester) were real TOP400 entries whose continental-table rows lacked a wikilink to their existing profile page until this pass — fixed alongside this table, not left as a silent gap.
Verified TOP400 entries (20):
| Profile | Market | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Plano, United States | Plano, TX (rank 1) | North America |
| Mississauga, Canada | Mississauga, ON (rank 4) | North America |
| Frisco, United States | Frisco, TX (rank 3) | North America |
| Greenville–Spartanburg, United States | Spartanburg, SC (rank 45) | North America |
| Tempe, United States | Tempe, AZ (rank 35) | North America |
| Torrance, United States | Torrance, CA (rank 112) | North America |
| Provo–Orem, United States | Provo, UT (rank 278) | North America |
| Kenner, United States | Kenner, LA (rank 333) | North America |
| Eagan, United States | Eagan, MN (rank 372) | North America |
| Järfälla, Sweden | Järfälla (rank 60) | Europe |
| York, England | York (rank 266) | Europe |
| Warrington, England | Warrington (rank 294) | Europe |
| Cherwell, England | Cherwell (rank 368) | Europe |
| Northampton, England | Northampton (rank 372) | Europe |
| Bielsko-Biała, Poland | Bielsko-Biała | Europe |
| Chester, England | Cheshire West and Chester (rank 32) | Europe |
Reference-only profiles (21) — real places, but not currently ranked TOP400 entries: either metro-core reference points for other ranked entries, or standalone markets outside the 15–80 km suburban band. Each profile page says so explicitly rather than presenting an unranked market as if it were ranked.
North America: Lethbridge, Canada, Kelowna, Canada, Moncton, Canada, Barrie–Innisfil, Canada, Regina, Canada, Colorado Springs, United States, Fort Collins, United States, Wichita, United States, Spokane, United States, Madison, United States.
Europe: Zaragoza, Spain, Burgos, Spain, Valladolid, Spain, Pamplona, Spain, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Inverness, Scotland.
Retired (2026-08-17), not linked above: nine city profiles and three country index pages for Germany, France, and Netherlands are unlisted from this category — those countries are deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30, reconfirmed against the 2026-08-07 dataset). The pages remain available for historical reference but are not linked from any active page.
Two other "Regional Markets" articles that predate the current co-location system —
about-regional-markets and about-regional-market-matrix — are marked status: superseded as of 2026-07-10; they described an earlier 8-market direct-hold matrix with a
definition of "Regional Market" that directly contradicts the system now in use. See
Regional Markets Intelligence System for the current,
authoritative framework.