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.
39 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia. 17 of these are verified entries in the Top 400 ranked lists and are wikilinked directly from the ranked tables — Plano, Mississauga, Frisco, Tempe, Torrance, Provo, Kenner, and Eagan in North America; Chemnitz-adjacent Krefeld, Kaiserslautern, Bielsko-Biała, Chambéry, Järfälla, York, Breda, Warrington, Cherwell, and Northampton in Europe. 22 profile pages describe markets outside the current Top-400 ranked pool — either functioning as metro-core reference points for other ranked entries (e.g. Augsburg, Nuremberg, Colorado Springs) or as standalone-secondary markets beyond the 80 km suburban-regional band (e.g. Wichita, Zaragoza, Spokane) — each says so explicitly rather than presenting an unranked market as if it were ranked.
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about-regional-markets and about-regional-market-matrix — are marked status: superseded as of 2026-07-10; they described an earlier 8-market direct-hold matrix with a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.