Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Florida

Measured against the national total for each industry, Florida is strongest in grocery and related product wholesale, with 7.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 5.5%. The state holds 5.54% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Polk holds 18.8% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 45.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 4 metro markets in Florida. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Florida stands 18,080 jobs behind Pennsylvania and 7,047 ahead of Ohio. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Florida sits 4.5 times above that line.

• The average Florida warehousing site employs 84 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.0 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.37 people for every warehousing job in Florida; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 5,198 jobs in Florida, 0.6% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 13,320 jobs, 3.8% of the national 350,886, which makes it 9th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,410 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 Florida has 44.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Florida is 3rd of fifty, and by average site size it is 17th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Florida ranks 20th with 39,390 jobs, 2.2% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 48,276 of the state's 105,401 warehousing jobs, so 57,125 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Florida often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Florida's 105,401, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Alabama and Georgia.

The table sets Florida 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, Florida would have to lose 82,190; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 943.
• Its 5.54% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.22% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.40: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 1,249 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 14,988 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Florida fall in 320 to 339 and 341 to 349, 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 105,401 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 84 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 39,390 food manufacturing jobs by the 1,249 warehousing sites gives 31.5; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 5.54% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 18 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 1,249 Florida sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 101,759 warehousing jobs, which is 3,642 fewer than the 105,401 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Alabama, Florida has 83,521 more warehousing jobs, 943 more sites and 5,662 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Alabama site holds 71.5 jobs and the typical Florida site 84.4; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.37 here and 1.54 there.
• Against Georgia, Florida has 20,671 more warehousing jobs, 99 more sites and 34,775 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Georgia site holds 73.7 jobs and the typical Florida site 84.4; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.37 here and 0.88 there.

• Warehousing and storage employs 105,401 in Florida, 5.5% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 63,967 in Florida, 7.7% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.61 of these jobs.

• Polk is 1st of the counties shown with 19,862 warehousing jobs, which is 235.4 times the average Florida site headcount of 84 and 1.04% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Duval is 2nd of the counties shown with 15,372 warehousing jobs, which is 182.2 times the average Florida site headcount of 84 and 0.81% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Miami-Dade is 3rd of the counties shown with 13,042 warehousing jobs, which is 154.5 times the average Florida site headcount of 84 and 0.69% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Florida begin with 320 to 339 and 341 to 349.
• 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.