Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Idaho

Measured against the national total for each industry, Idaho is strongest in fruit and vegetable preserving, with 4.3% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 1.2%. The state holds 0.13% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Ada holds 41.9% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 75.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Idaho stands 824 jobs behind South Dakota and 471 ahead of Wyoming. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Idaho sits at 11 percent of that line.

• The average Idaho warehousing site employs 17 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 21 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 8.74 people for every warehousing job in Idaho; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 480 jobs in Idaho, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 365 jobs, 0.10% of the national 350,886, which makes it 45th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 23,722 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 Idaho has 1.0% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Idaho is 37th of fifty, and by average site size it is 49th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Idaho ranks 30th with 21,363 jobs, 1.2% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 1,854 of the state's 2,445 warehousing jobs, so 591 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Idaho in motor vehicle assembly. 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 Idaho often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Idaho's 2,445, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

The table sets Idaho 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, Idaho would need to add 20,766; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 160.
• Its 0.13% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.20% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 9.36: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 146 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 1,752 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Idaho fall in 832 to 838, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving is the largest listed industry on this page at 7,461 jobs, 3.05 for every warehousing job and 51 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 21,363 food manufacturing jobs by the 146 warehousing sites gives 146.3; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.13% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 769 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 146 Idaho sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 11,895 warehousing jobs, which is 9,450 more than the 2,445 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Montana, Idaho has 2,017 more warehousing jobs, 94 more sites and 18,871 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Montana site holds 8.2 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 5.82 there.
• Against Nevada, Idaho has 39,668 fewer warehousing jobs, 468 fewer sites and 12,939 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Nevada site holds 68.6 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 0.20 there.
• Against Oregon, Idaho has 14,305 fewer warehousing jobs, 121 fewer sites and 6,840 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oregon site holds 62.7 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 1.68 there.
• Against Utah, Idaho has 11,238 fewer warehousing jobs, 144 fewer sites and 2,060 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Utah site holds 47.2 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 1.71 there.
• Against Washington, Idaho has 34,246 fewer warehousing jobs, 327 fewer sites and 18,324 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Washington site holds 77.6 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 1.08 there.
• Against Wyoming, Idaho has 471 more warehousing jobs, 123 more sites and 20,461 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Wyoming site holds 85.8 jobs and the typical Idaho site 16.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 8.74 here and 0.46 there.

• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 7,461 in Idaho, 4.3% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 3.05 of these jobs.
• Dairy product manufacturing employs 5,027 in Idaho, 3.0% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.06 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 21,363 in Idaho, 1.2% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 8.74 of these jobs.

• Ada is 1st of the counties shown with 1,025 warehousing jobs, which is 61.2 times the average Idaho site headcount of 17 and 0.05% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Canyon is 2nd of the counties shown with 654 warehousing jobs, which is 39.1 times the average Idaho site headcount of 17 and 0.03% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Bonneville is 3rd of the counties shown with 175 warehousing jobs, which is 10.4 times the average Idaho site headcount of 17 and 0.01% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Idaho begin with 832 to 838.
• 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.