Torsted is located on the southwestern outskirts of Horsens, 2 miles southwest of the city centre.

[2] In the Church of Denmark, it is a unit of Horsens provsti within the Diocese of Aarhus.

Until the 1970 municipal reform, it was also a governmental unit as part of Hatting hundred.

In 1924 it included settlements and estates named Torsted, Ørnstrup, Mosegaard and Thorstedhuse.

[3] There is also a Torsted parish in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, in western Jutland.