Torrance, United States
Torrance, a mixed industrial-residential suburb in southwestern Los Angeles County, is a suburb of Los Angeles with a single Regional-tier co-location cluster. The city combines a large regional mall with a manufacturing and aerospace employment base uncommon among the covered markets with only one cluster.
Overview
According to Wikipedia (accessed 2026-07-10), Torrance recorded a population of 147,067 at the 2020 census (an estimated 139,576 by 2024) across 20.516 square miles of land, approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Leading employers include Torrance Memorial Health System (4,070 employees), the local school district (2,675), and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center (2,429); American Honda Motor Company maintains significant operations with 1,496 employees, alongside Robinson Helicopter Company and Honeywell Aerospace. The city hosts one of the ten largest malls in the United States, the 2.5-million-square-foot Del Amo Fashion Center, and oil refining remains economically important through a PBF Energy facility. Torrance has the second-largest concentration of people of Japanese ancestry of any U.S. city after Honolulu, alongside a significant Korean American population; the 2020 census recorded the population as 35.30 percent white, 35.26 percent Asian, and 19.09 percent Hispanic or Latino.
Regional Market Standing
Torrance is a suburb of Los Angeles, with a single Regional-tier co-location cluster.
Cluster-level detail — the specific retail and civic anchors composing Torrance's single Regional-tier cluster — is pending the underlying GIS dataset and is not included in this stub. See Top 400 Regional Markets — North America for the full Top 400 set and Co-location Methodology for how markets qualify.
See Also
- Top 400 Regional Markets — North America
- Regional Markets Intelligence System
- Co-location Methodology
References
- Torrance, California — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-07-10
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