Glossary

Catchment area

The area a store or service draws its customers from.

A catchment (or trade) area is where most of a location's customers come from. It shapes how many people a site can serve, who they are and how many competitors split them.

The simplest catchment is a radius; better ones follow travel time or observed visits. In xMap Flows you can measure the people inside a radius with Demographics and the competition with Nearby places counting around each site.

Templates that use these blocks

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