Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Arkansas

Measured against the national total for each industry, Arkansas is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 6.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in plastics product manufacturing, with 1.2%. The state holds 0.82% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Pulaski holds 47.9% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 68.2%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Arkansas stands 1,126 jobs behind Oregon and 312 ahead of Louisiana. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Arkansas sits at 67 percent of that line.

• The average Arkansas warehousing site employs 72 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 88 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 3.32 people for every warehousing job in Arkansas; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 3,586 jobs in Arkansas, 0.4% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 464 jobs, 0.13% of the national 350,886, which makes it 44th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 5,952 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 Arkansas has 6.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Arkansas is 33rd of fifty, and by average site size it is 29th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Arkansas ranks 11th with 51,799 jobs, 2.9% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 10,652 of the state's 15,624 warehousing jobs, so 4,972 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Arkansas 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 Arkansas often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Arkansas's 15,624, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.

The table sets Arkansas 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, Arkansas would need to add 7,587; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 88.
• Its 0.82% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.92% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 3.55: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 218 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 2,616 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Arkansas fall in 716 to 729, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Meat and poultry processing is the largest listed industry on this page at 34,773 jobs, 2.23 for every warehousing job and 160 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 51,799 food manufacturing jobs by the 218 warehousing sites gives 237.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.82% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 122 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 218 Arkansas sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 17,761 warehousing jobs, which is 2,137 more than the 15,624 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Louisiana has 312 fewer warehousing jobs, 108 more sites and 34,829 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Louisiana dock averages 47.0 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 1.11 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Missouri has 11,102 more warehousing jobs, 305 more sites and 6,531 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Missouri dock averages 51.1 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 1.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Mississippi has 9,830 more warehousing jobs, 87 more sites and 27,072 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Mississippi dock averages 83.5 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 0.97 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Oklahoma has 4,045 more warehousing jobs, 32 fewer sites and 31,752 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Oklahoma dock averages 105.7 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 1.02 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Tennessee has 37,803 more warehousing jobs, 424 more sites and 11,479 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Tennessee dock averages 83.2 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 0.75 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Texas has 159,955 more warehousing jobs, 1,956 more sites and 60,289 more food manufacturing jobs than Arkansas, so a Texas dock averages 80.8 jobs per site against 71.7 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 34,773 in Arkansas, 6.2% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.23 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 51,799 in Arkansas, 2.9% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 3.32 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 1,941 in Arkansas, 2.7% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.12 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 4,153 in Arkansas, 2.4% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.27 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 6,804 in Arkansas, 1.2% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.44 of these jobs.

• Pulaski is 1st of the counties shown with 7,477 warehousing jobs, which is 104.3 times the average Arkansas site headcount of 72 and 0.39% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Benton is 2nd of the counties shown with 2,670 warehousing jobs, which is 37.3 times the average Arkansas site headcount of 72 and 0.14% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Crittenden is 3rd of the counties shown with 505 warehousing jobs, which is 7.0 times the average Arkansas site headcount of 72 and 0.03% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Arkansas begin with 716 to 729.
• 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.