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
Coverage Methodology
Regional Markets Intelligence System is the reference article for the co-location analysis system, and Regional Market Definition sets out what qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market on the map. The Co-location Tier System explains the four-tier classification and how it applies 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 Top 400 — North America and the Top 400 — Europe are the two qualifying sets: four hundred suburban commuter-belt markets per continent that meet the co-location anchor-composition gates. No rank or score is published for any market in either set.
- Top 400 Regional Markets — North America — Set of the 400 qualifying North American suburban Regional Markets. No rank or score is published; Plano, TX is one entry (suburb of Dallas).
- Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe — Set of 399 verified distinct European Regional Markets across 400 list positions (one position vacant pending a genuine 400th entry) under the corrected suburban-regional methodology. No rank or score is published; Chemnitz is one entry (suburb of Dresden, 64 km).
Co-Location Indices by Country
Seven country-level co-location indices supply the underlying cluster data the continental rankings are built from, each ranking named-anchor convergence node by node within its own country: United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Poland, and the Nordics.
- atlas-co-location-index-us — Index of co-location nodes in the United States, evaluated by the named-anchor methodology across Walmart Supercentre anchor locations.
- atlas-co-location-index-canada — Index of high-value co-location nodes in Canada, evaluating Walmart Supercentre anchor sites by proximity to Costco, Home Depot, and civic infrastructure.
- 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.
- atlas-co-location-index-spain — Index of co-location nodes across Spain, anchored by IKEA with secondary validation from Leroy Merlin and Makro within the Iberian Peninsula.
- atlas-co-location-index-italy — Index of institutional-grade co-location nodes in Italy, centered on IKEA anchor locations with secondary convergence from Leroy Merlin and Makro.
- atlas-co-location-index-poland — Index of high-growth commercial convergence nodes in Poland, where IKEA anchors cluster with Makro, Leroy Merlin, Auchan, 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
Nine country-level Regional Market indices filter the continental Top 400 tables down to a single country's entries: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, Croatia, and Norway.
- Canada — Regional Market index — Index of Canadian regional commercial real estate markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- United States — Regional Market index — Index of US regional commercial real estate markets meeting the co-location composition gates across all major census regions.
- United Kingdom — Regional Market index — Index of UK regional commercial real estate markets meeting the co-location composition gates outside London and the South East.
- Spain — Regional Market index — Index of Spanish regional commercial real estate markets meeting the co-location composition gates.
- Italy — Regional Market index — Index of the 21 Italian entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe set, filtered from the continental table with metro-reference groupings.
- Poland — Regional Market index — Index of the 16 Polish entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe set, filtered from the continental table with metro-reference groupings.
- Greece — Regional Market index — Index of Greece's seven Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Croatia — Regional Market index — Index of Croatia's nine Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Norway — Regional Market index — Index of Norway's nine Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
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,
United Kingdom, Spain, Italy,
Poland, 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.
57 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia.
Correction (2026-09-05): this count read 66 before the nine German, French, and Dutch profiles retired 2026-08-17 were archived on 2026-09-05; 57 is the current live total. An earlier correction the same day replaced a stale 41. The verified / reference-only split below still covers only the 32 profiles it was originally written against — the Greek (7), Croatian (9), and Norwegian (9) sets added since have not been folded into it. Flagged for a future pass, not resolved here.
Verified TOP400 entries (16): co-location cluster composition current as of the 2026-08-07 dataset. No rank or score is published for any entry; list order below is alphabetical by profile slug, not ordinal.
Note: Spartanburg, SC appears in the North American Top 400 table linked from this profile, but the profile page itself describes Spartanburg as a metro-core reference point rather than a ranked suburban entry. This is a pre-existing inconsistency in the underlying data, not resolved by this edit — flagged for a future data-reconciliation pass rather than corrected unilaterally here.
| Market | Continent |
|---|---|
| Plano, TX | North America |
| Mississauga, ON | North America |
| Frisco, TX | North America |
| Spartanburg, SC | North America |
| Tempe, AZ | North America |
| Torrance, CA | North America |
| Provo, UT | North America |
| Kenner, LA | North America |
| Eagan, MN | North America |
| Järfälla | Europe |
| York | Europe |
| Warrington | Europe |
| Cherwell | Europe |
| Northampton | Europe |
| Bielsko-Biała | Europe |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Europe |
Reference-only profiles (16) — real places that are not currently part of the TOP400 set: either metro-core reference points for other entries, or standalone markets outside the 15–80 km suburban band. Each profile page says so explicitly rather than presenting a market outside the set as if it were included.
North America: Lethbridge, Kelowna, Moncton, Barrie–Innisfil, Regina, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Wichita, Spokane, Madison.
Europe: Zaragoza, Burgos, Valladolid, Pamplona, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Inverness.
Archived (2026-09-05): the seven German city profiles, Chambéry (France), and Breda (Netherlands) — retired 2026-08-17 because those three countries are deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30) — were archived on 2026-09-05, together with the three country index pages and the superseded framework article that had shared a Superseded and Retired shelf on this page. Their slugs redirect to this category.