Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Colorado

Measured against the national total for each industry, Colorado is strongest in food manufacturing, with 1.5% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 1.3%. The state holds 1.29% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Adams holds 49.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 63.4%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Colorado stands 586 jobs behind Connecticut and 2,661 ahead of Alabama. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Colorado sits 1.1 times above that line.

• The average Colorado warehousing site employs 81 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 99 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.08 people for every warehousing job in Colorado; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 1,123 jobs in Colorado, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 4,960 jobs, 1.4% of the national 350,886, which makes it 20th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Colorado has 10.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Colorado is 27th of fifty, and by average site size it is 23rd, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Colorado ranks 27th with 26,569 jobs, 1.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 15,562 of the state's 24,541 warehousing jobs, so 8,979 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Colorado in motor vehicle assembly and cold storage capacity. 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 Colorado often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Colorado's 24,541, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming.

The table sets Colorado 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, Colorado would have to lose 1,330; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 2.
• Its 1.29% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.50% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.16: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 304 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,648 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Colorado fall in 800 to 816, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Food manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 26,569 jobs, 1.08 for every warehousing job and 87 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 26,569 food manufacturing jobs by the 304 warehousing sites gives 87.4; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.29% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 78 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 304 Colorado sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 24,768 warehousing jobs, which is 227 more than the 24,541 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Arizona, Colorado has 27,513 fewer warehousing jobs, 41 fewer sites and 10,625 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arizona site holds 150.9 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 0.31 there.
• Against Kansas, Colorado has 3,383 more warehousing jobs, 11 more sites and 11,203 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kansas site holds 72.2 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 1.79 there.
• Against Nebraska, Colorado has 16,295 more warehousing jobs, 148 more sites and 15,370 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Nebraska site holds 52.9 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 5.09 there.
• Against New Mexico, Colorado has 18,816 more warehousing jobs, 238 more sites and 20,195 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical New Mexico site holds 86.7 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 1.11 there.
• Against Oklahoma, Colorado has 4,872 more warehousing jobs, 118 more sites and 6,522 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oklahoma site holds 105.7 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 1.02 there.
• Against Utah, Colorado has 10,858 more warehousing jobs, 14 more sites and 3,146 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Utah site holds 47.2 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 1.71 there.
• Against Wyoming, Colorado has 22,567 more warehousing jobs, 281 more sites and 25,667 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Wyoming site holds 85.8 jobs and the typical Colorado site 80.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.08 here and 0.46 there.

• Food manufacturing employs 26,569 in Colorado, 1.5% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.08 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 24,541 in Colorado, 1.3% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Adams is 1st of the counties shown with 12,162 warehousing jobs, which is 150.7 times the average Colorado site headcount of 81 and 0.64% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Denver is 2nd of the counties shown with 2,456 warehousing jobs, which is 30.4 times the average Colorado site headcount of 81 and 0.13% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Arapahoe is 3rd of the counties shown with 944 warehousing jobs, which is 11.7 times the average Colorado site headcount of 81 and 0.05% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Colorado begin with 800 to 816.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.
• 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.