Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Arizona

Measured against the national total for each industry, Arizona is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 2.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.90%. The state holds 2.74% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Maricopa holds 81.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 99.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists one metro market in Arizona. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Arizona stands 1,373 jobs behind Tennessee and 931 ahead of Virginia. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Arizona sits 2.2 times above that line.

• The average Arizona warehousing site employs 151 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.9 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.31 people for every warehousing job in Arizona; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 2,392 jobs in Arizona, 0.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 4,977 jobs, 1.4% of the national 350,886, which makes it 19th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 77 thousand cubic feet of gross refrigerated capacity for every thousand warehousing jobs here, against 2,098 thousand for the country as a whole.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Arizona has 22.0% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Arizona is 21st of fifty, and by average site size it is 1st, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Arizona ranks 35th with 15,944 jobs, 0.9% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 51,594 of the state's 52,054 warehousing jobs, so 460 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Arizona in motor vehicle assembly. Those gaps are in the data, which hides or omits small cells to protect privacy; they are not a claim that the industry is absent, and a missing row above means the same.

Loads for Arizona often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Arizona's 52,054, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah.

The table sets Arizona beside each state that borders it on the same five measures: establishments, jobs per site, food manufacturing jobs for each warehousing job, share of the US warehousing total, and sites for every thousand warehousing jobs. All of it is arithmetic on the BLS counts named in the sources.

• To reach the median state's 23,211 warehousing jobs, Arizona would have to lose 28,843; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 39.
• Its 2.74% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.90% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.33: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 345 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 4,140 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Arizona fall in 850 to 865, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Warehousing and storage is the largest listed industry on this page at 52,054 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 151 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 15,944 food manufacturing jobs by the 345 warehousing sites gives 46.2; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.74% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 36 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 345 Arizona sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 28,108 warehousing jobs, which is 23,946 fewer than the 52,054 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• California has 184,869 more warehousing jobs, 2,431 more sites and 150,716 more food manufacturing jobs than Arizona, so a California dock averages 85.3 jobs per site against 150.9 here, and 0.70 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.31.
• Colorado has 27,513 fewer warehousing jobs, 41 fewer sites and 10,625 more food manufacturing jobs than Arizona, so a Colorado dock averages 80.7 jobs per site against 150.9 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.31.
• New Mexico has 46,329 fewer warehousing jobs, 279 fewer sites and 9,570 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arizona, so a New Mexico dock averages 86.7 jobs per site against 150.9 here, and 1.11 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.31.
• Nevada has 9,941 fewer warehousing jobs, 269 more sites and 7,520 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arizona, so a Nevada dock averages 68.6 jobs per site against 150.9 here, and 0.20 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.31.
• Utah has 38,371 fewer warehousing jobs, 55 fewer sites and 7,479 more food manufacturing jobs than Arizona, so a Utah dock averages 47.2 jobs per site against 150.9 here, and 1.71 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.31.

• Warehousing and storage employs 52,054 in Arizona, 2.7% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 15,944 in Arizona, 0.90% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.31 of these jobs.

• Maricopa is 1st of the counties shown with 42,291 warehousing jobs, which is 280.3 times the average Arizona site headcount of 151 and 2.22% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Pima is 2nd of the counties shown with 8,731 warehousing jobs, which is 57.9 times the average Arizona site headcount of 151 and 0.46% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Santa Cruz is 3rd of the counties shown with 572 warehousing jobs, which is 3.8 times the average Arizona site headcount of 151 and 0.03% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Arizona begin with 850 to 865.
• The footprint and the number of pallets, or the number of trailers.
• The three ratings the load needs, or a description of the load.
• Resin and colourant papers wanted, if the pallets touch food or pharma product.
• The month you want them, and whether a standing supply follows.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.