Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to California

Measured against the national total for each industry, California is strongest in beverage manufacturing, with 20.1% of the US jobs, and weakest in fruit and vegetable preserving, with 15.8%. The state holds 12.46% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

San Bernardino holds 28.3% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 62.0%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 6 metro markets in California. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

California stands 61,344 ahead of Texas. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so California sits 10.2 times above that line.

• The average California warehousing site employs 85 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.0 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.70 people for every warehousing job in California; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 39,134 jobs in California, 4.8% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 42,575 jobs, 12.1% of the national 350,886, which makes it 1st of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,688 thousand cubic feet of gross refrigerated capacity for every thousand warehousing jobs here, against 2,098 thousand for the country as a whole.
• By number of warehousing establishments California is 1st of fifty, and by average site size it is 16th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing California ranks 1st with 166,660 jobs, 9.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 146,886 of the state's 236,923 warehousing jobs, so 90,037 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Every measure on this page has a figure for California: warehousing, food, pharmaceutical, motor vehicle assembly and parts, counties and cold storage.

Loads for California often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by California's 236,923, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.

The table sets California 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, California would have to lose 213,712; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 2,470.
• Its 12.46% of US warehousing jobs compares with 9.39% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.75: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 2,776 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 33,312 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in California fall in 900 to 908, 910 to 928 and 930 to 961, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Beverage manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 63,604 jobs, 0.27 for every warehousing job and 23 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 166,660 food manufacturing jobs by the 2,776 warehousing sites gives 60.0; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 12.46% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 8 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 2,776 California sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 226,168 warehousing jobs, which is 10,755 fewer than the 236,923 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Arizona has 184,869 fewer warehousing jobs, 2,431 fewer sites and 150,716 fewer food manufacturing jobs than California, so a Arizona dock averages 150.9 jobs per site against 85.3 here, and 0.31 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.70.
• Nevada has 194,810 fewer warehousing jobs, 2,162 fewer sites and 158,236 fewer food manufacturing jobs than California, so a Nevada dock averages 68.6 jobs per site against 85.3 here, and 0.20 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.70.
• Oregon has 220,173 fewer warehousing jobs, 2,509 fewer sites and 138,457 fewer food manufacturing jobs than California, so a Oregon dock averages 62.7 jobs per site against 85.3 here, and 1.68 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.70.

• Beverage manufacturing employs 63,604 in California, 20.1% of the 316,938 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.27 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 27,518 in California, 15.8% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.12 of these jobs.

• San Bernardino is 1st of the counties shown with 67,058 warehousing jobs, which is 785.7 times the average California site headcount of 85 and 3.53% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Riverside is 2nd of the counties shown with 51,310 warehousing jobs, which is 601.2 times the average California site headcount of 85 and 2.70% of all US warehousing jobs.
• San Joaquin is 3rd of the counties shown with 28,518 warehousing jobs, which is 334.1 times the average California site headcount of 85 and 1.50% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in California begin with 900 to 908, 910 to 928 and 930 to 961.
• 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.