Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Connecticut

Measured against the national total for each industry, Connecticut is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 1.3% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.54%. The state holds 1.32% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

No county in Connecticut is shown with disclosed warehousing data in our source, so this page gives the state total only.

Connecticut stands 327 jobs behind Mississippi and 586 ahead of Colorado. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Connecticut sits 1.1 times above that line.

• The average Connecticut warehousing site employs 130 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.6 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.38 people for every warehousing job in Connecticut; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 2,805 jobs in Connecticut, 0.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,715 jobs, 0.77% of the national 350,886, which makes it 28th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Connecticut has 10.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Connecticut is 34th of fifty, and by average site size it is 2nd, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Connecticut ranks 38th with 9,671 jobs, 0.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.

Our sources show no figure for Connecticut in motor vehicle assembly, cold storage capacity, and county warehousing data. 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 Connecticut often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Connecticut's 25,127, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

The table sets Connecticut 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, Connecticut would have to lose 1,916; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 113.
• Its 1.32% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.54% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.41: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 193 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 2,316 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Connecticut fall in 060 to 069, 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 25,127 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 130 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 9,671 food manufacturing jobs by the 193 warehousing sites gives 50.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.32% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 76 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 193 Connecticut sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 15,724 warehousing jobs, which is 9,403 fewer than the 25,127 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Massachusetts, Connecticut has 4,432 more warehousing jobs, 55 fewer sites and 19,365 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Massachusetts site holds 83.4 jobs and the typical Connecticut site 130.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.38 here and 1.40 there.
• Against New York, Connecticut has 30,244 fewer warehousing jobs, 640 fewer sites and 50,645 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical New York site holds 66.5 jobs and the typical Connecticut site 130.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.38 here and 1.09 there.
• Against Rhode Island, Connecticut has 19,975 more warehousing jobs, 153 more sites and 5,902 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Rhode Island site holds 128.8 jobs and the typical Connecticut site 130.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.38 here and 0.73 there.

• Warehousing and storage employs 25,127 in Connecticut, 1.3% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 9,671 in Connecticut, 0.54% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.38 of these jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Connecticut begin with 060 to 069.
• 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.