Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Delaware

Measured against the national total for each industry, Delaware is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 1.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.63%. The state holds 0.66% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Sussex holds 0.6% of the state's warehousing jobs. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Delaware stands 1,188 jobs behind Utah and 4,249 ahead of Nebraska. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Delaware sits at 54 percent of that line.

• The average Delaware warehousing site employs 93 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.89 people for every warehousing job in Delaware; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Our source shows no motor vehicle assembly or parts total for Delaware, so auto docks are not a basis for this lane.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 618 jobs, 0.18% of the national 350,886, which makes it 42nd of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,001 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 Delaware has 5.3% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Delaware is 38th of fifty, and by average site size it is 10th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Delaware ranks 36th with 11,157 jobs, 0.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The one county shown holds 80 of the state's 12,495 warehousing jobs, so 12,415 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Delaware in motor vehicle assembly and motor vehicle parts. 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 Delaware often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Delaware's 12,495, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

The table sets Delaware 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, Delaware would need to add 10,716; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 172.
• Its 0.66% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.63% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.96: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 134 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 1,608 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Delaware fall in 197 to 199, 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 9,741 jobs, 0.78 for every warehousing job and 73 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 11,157 food manufacturing jobs by the 134 warehousing sites gives 83.3; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.66% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 152 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 134 Delaware sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 10,917 warehousing jobs, which is 1,578 fewer than the 12,495 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Maryland, Delaware has 17,471 fewer warehousing jobs, 111 fewer sites and 8,443 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Maryland site holds 122.3 jobs and the typical Delaware site 93.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.89 here and 0.65 there.
• Against New Jersey, Delaware has 63,657 fewer warehousing jobs, 777 fewer sites and 32,074 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical New Jersey site holds 83.6 jobs and the typical Delaware site 93.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.89 here and 0.57 there.
• Against Pennsylvania, Delaware has 110,986 fewer warehousing jobs, 1,028 fewer sites and 71,381 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Pennsylvania site holds 106.3 jobs and the typical Delaware site 93.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.89 here and 0.67 there.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 9,741 in Delaware, 1.7% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.78 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 12,495 in Delaware, 0.66% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 11,157 in Delaware, 0.63% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.89 of these jobs.

• Sussex is 1st of the counties shown with 80 warehousing jobs, which is 0.9 times the average Delaware site headcount of 93 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Delaware begin with 197 to 199.
• 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.