catchment

• For example, in Glasgow every child lives in the catchment areas of two schools, so every family and every child can choose between a faith school and a secular one. —  Anglican Mainstream
• Any patient within the catchment area, who has a referral letter from their GP, is given the choice to have their sample taken at the supermarket rather than at hospital. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
• The airport will serve residents throughout Northwest Indiana and south Chicago, as evidenced by several studies showing a catchment area of 1.8 million potential customers who can drive to the Gary Airport quicker than they can drive to Midway Airport, and 2.9 million potential customers who can drive to Gary quicker than they can drive to O'Hare International Airport.
• "Cricket NSW has told us about 5 per cent of all registered cricketers live in the catchment area around the cricket ground; 50 per cent live out this way." —  Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate
• Maybe it's because his frequent visits to hospitals have shown him the limitations of setting down the same common high performance standards for all Scotland's hospitals, even though they vary so much, whether in size and modernity, or the wealth / poverty indices in their catchment areas, or whether they have chronic shortages of some specialists.

Used in the Same Context