Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Georgia

Measured against the national total for each industry, Georgia is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 7.6% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 4.2%. The state holds 4.45% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Fulton holds 21.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 38.3%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 3 metro markets in Georgia. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Georgia stands 13,624 jobs behind Ohio and 4,659 ahead of Illinois. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Georgia sits 3.7 times above that line.

• The average Georgia warehousing site employs 74 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 90 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.88 people for every warehousing job in Georgia; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 24,837 jobs in Georgia, 3.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 3,555 jobs, 1.0% of the national 350,886, which makes it 24th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 3,588 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 Georgia has 35.8% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Georgia is 5th of fifty, and by average site size it is 27th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Georgia ranks 6th with 74,165 jobs, 4.2% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 32,422 of the state's 84,730 warehousing jobs, so 52,308 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Georgia often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Georgia's 84,730, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

The table sets Georgia 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, Georgia would have to lose 61,519; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 844.
• Its 4.45% of US warehousing jobs compares with 4.18% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.94: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 1,150 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 13,800 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Georgia fall in 300 to 319 and 398 to 399, 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 42,030 jobs, 0.50 for every warehousing job and 37 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 74,165 food manufacturing jobs by the 1,150 warehousing sites gives 64.5; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 4.45% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 22 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 1,150 Georgia sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 93,693 warehousing jobs, which is 8,963 more than the 84,730 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Alabama has 62,850 fewer warehousing jobs, 844 fewer sites and 40,437 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Georgia, so a Alabama dock averages 71.5 jobs per site against 73.7 here, and 1.54 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.88.
• Florida has 20,671 more warehousing jobs, 99 more sites and 34,775 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Georgia, so a Florida dock averages 84.4 jobs per site against 73.7 here, and 0.37 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.88.
• North Carolina has 30,179 fewer warehousing jobs, 560 fewer sites and 12,724 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Georgia, so a North Carolina dock averages 92.5 jobs per site against 73.7 here, and 1.13 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.88.
• South Carolina has 57,580 fewer warehousing jobs, 623 fewer sites and 56,376 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Georgia, so a South Carolina dock averages 51.5 jobs per site against 73.7 here, and 0.66 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.88.
• Tennessee has 31,303 fewer warehousing jobs, 508 fewer sites and 33,845 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Georgia, so a Tennessee dock averages 83.2 jobs per site against 73.7 here, and 0.75 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.88.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 42,030 in Georgia, 7.6% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.50 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 4,453 in Georgia, 6.1% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.05 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 84,730 in Georgia, 4.5% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 74,165 in Georgia, 4.2% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.88 of these jobs.

• Fulton is 1st of the counties shown with 18,317 warehousing jobs, which is 248.6 times the average Georgia site headcount of 74 and 0.96% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Henry is 2nd of the counties shown with 7,904 warehousing jobs, which is 107.3 times the average Georgia site headcount of 74 and 0.42% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Cobb is 3rd of the counties shown with 6,201 warehousing jobs, which is 84.2 times the average Georgia site headcount of 74 and 0.33% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Georgia begin with 300 to 319 and 398 to 399.
• 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.