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 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 under the 2026-08-07 dataset — 298 United States, 56 Canadian, 46 Mexican. No rank or score is published.
- Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe — The 400 European Regional Markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool under the 2026-08-07 dataset, across fifteen countries. No rank or score is published; 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 ranks named-anchor convergence node by node within its own country and supplies the underlying cluster data the continental sets are built from.
Note (2026-09-06): these two were previously kept standalone because neither had a country market page to sit beside. That rationale no longer holds — Mexico, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway all have country pages now. Whether to merge these two the way the other five were merged is a separate content decision, not taken here.
- 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 as of 2026-09-06 every one has a country page. Nine were added that day — Sweden, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Denmark in Europe, and Mexico in North America — and the six pages that still carried pre-rebuild tables (Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and Poland) were rebuilt against the confirmed dataset in the same pass. All eighteen are now current.
- Canada — Regional Market index — Index of Canada's 56 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- United States — Regional Market index — Index of the 298 United States Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Mexico — Regional Market index — Index of Mexico's 46 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- United Kingdom — Regional Market index — Index of the United Kingdom's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Spain — Regional Market index — Index of Spain's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Italy — Regional Market index — Index of Italy's 62 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Poland — Regional Market index — Index of Poland's 55 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Sweden — Regional Market index — Index of Sweden's 32 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Czechia — Regional Market index — Index of Czechia's 27 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Finland — Regional Market index — Index of Finland's 19 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Hungary — Regional Market index — Index of Hungary's 19 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Slovakia — Regional Market index — Index of Slovakia's 16 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Romania — Regional Market index — Index of Romania's 13 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Bulgaria — Regional Market index — Index of Bulgaria's 11 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- Denmark — Regional Market index — Index of Denmark's 11 Regional Markets meeting the co-location composition gates under the 2026-08-07 dataset.
- 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, 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.
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.
Correction (2026-09-06): rebuilding the country tables against the confirmed dataset showed the split below is stale on membership, not just on coverage. Of the 16 entries listed as verified TOP400, five are no longer in the confirmed set — Torrance, CA; Provo, UT; Kenner, LA; Eagan, MN; and Northampton. Six listed below as reference-only are now in it — Lethbridge, Kelowna, Barrie–Innisfil, Regina, Burgos, and Fort Collins. Re-sorting the two lists also means updating what each profile page says about itself, so it is flagged here rather than resolved in this pass.
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.